Janine Benyus explore the nature in a wonderful manner so is the way she share it. Go through the technology that explains a way to exist on this planet sustainably.

1. SUSTAINABLE
DESIGN AND
BIOMIMETICS
ABHILASHA TRIPATHI
M.Tech Env. Engg. and Mgmt.
CPEE, P.U.

2. SUSTAINABLE
DESIGN
• Objective: To eliminate negative
environmental impact completely
through skilful, sensitive design. Keeping
in mind that it don’t affect the
availability of resources for future
generations.
• Chair grown by tree shaper John
Krubsack in Wisconsin, United States in
1919.

3. SUSTAINABLE DESIGN PRINCIPLE
Low-impact materials
Energy efficiency
Emotionally durable design
Sustainable design standards
Design for reuse and recycling
Bio mimicry
Service substitution
Renewability

4. BEES (Building for Environmental
and Economic Sustainability)
software
• A powerful
technique for
selecting cost-
effective,
environmentally-
preferable
building
products.
• Developed by the
NIST (National
Institute of Standards
and Technology)
Engineering Laboratory
the tool is based on
consensus standards
and designed to be
practical, flexible, and
transparent.
• BEES Online, aimed
at designers, builders,
and product
manufacturers,
includes actual
environmental and
economic
performance data for
230 building
products.

5. BEES cont.…
LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS
• Analyse the performance of building products by using the life-cycle
assessment approach specified in the ISO 14040 series of standards.
• All stages in the life of a product are analysed:
• Raw material acquisition
• Manufacture
• Transportation
• Installation
• Use
• Recycling
• Waste management

6. Economic performance is measured using the
ASTM(American Society for Testing and Materials) standard
life-cycle cost method, which covers the costs of initial
investment, replacement, operation, maintenance and repair,
and disposal.
Environmental and economic performance are combined into
an overall performance measure using the ASTM standard for
Multi-Attribute Decision Analysis
For the entire BEES analysis, building products are defined
and classified according to the ASTM standard classification
for building elements known as UNIFORMAT II (a standard
for specifications, cost estimation and cost analysis in USA
and Canada).

7. BIOMIMETICS

8. LOOP AND HOOK FASTNER
• Swiss engineer George de
Mestral invented the
amazingly useful fastening
material called VELCRO after
seeing how cockleburs from
the burdock plant stuck like
glue to the fur of his dog.
• Based upon that he came up
with the Velcro.
• Also called “hook and loop
fastener” or “touch fastener”
as “Velcro” .

9. RELAX YOUR WASHING MACHINES,
CLOTHES CAN CLEAN THEMSELVES TOO
• The leaves of Lotus are coated with
nanoscopically tiny bumps and the bumps
are, themselves, covered with a thin layer
of wax.
• Dirt particles balance precariously on the
waxy bumps but never get a really good
grip on the main surface of the leaves
below.
• The nano-bumps work a bit like a natural
detergent, holding dirt clear of the leaves
so water can easily wash it away.

10. • So, Now clothing manufacturers
are coating garments like skate
pants with nanofibers so they work
in a similar way.
• The idea is that dirt is held slightly
apart from the main fabric so stains
cannot penetrate deeply; clothes
coated with nanofibers can be
washed clean much more easily.

11. DIVING COSTUMES MIMICING SHARKS
• Human skin is not
designed for swimming
• Water doesn't flow well
past human skin because
the skin starts to wrinkle.
• For hairy body, every
single one of your hairs
will drag and slow you
down even more.

12. • To avoid the problem a swimsuit is
manufactured by Speedo company
to mimic a shark's skin.
• FASTSKIN, the tight-fitting suit
covered with tiny v-shaped channels,
just like the ridges (technically
known as placoid scales or dermal
denticles) on a shark's body.
• The idea is that water whizzes along
these channels, reducing drag and
turbulence, so you can swim faster.
• Fits tightly thus, compressing the
swimmer's muscles, helps to reduce
fatigue.
• According to Speedo,
swimsuits like this can boost
a swimmer's speed by up to
3 percent.

13. HEY!! DRESS UP LIKE A
PINECONE
• If it's going to rain, the spines close up to
protect the seeds inside.
• If it's going to stay dry, the spines open up
to improve the chances of the seeds
escaping.

14. •The London College of Fashion are trying to design
biomimetic clothes that could work the same way.
•The fabric could be made with an outer layer of
tiny spikes, only 1/200th of a millimetre wide.
•When it's hot, the spikes would open up to let out
the heat, cooling you down.
•When it's cold, the spikes would flatten back down
to trap air and provide more effective insulation.

15. BETTER LEARN DRIVING FROM
THEM…..
• 80 million of them in a kilometre square
and yet they never collide.
• Collision avoidance circuitry is under
research, For this the neuron of locust is
under study.
• They have a distinctive way of processing
information through electrical and chemical
signals, giving them an extremely fast and
accurate warning system for impending
collisions.
• Robotics is also in adopting the technique.

16. FLIGHT OF FREEDOM…..
• A German engineer called Otto
Lilienthal strapped wings to his arms
and jumped off a hill in an attempt
to fly.
• Though eventually, kill himself
trying to fly like the birds.
• But his pioneering glider
experiments inspired the Wright
brothers to develop their engine-
powered airplanes in the early 20th
century.

18. JANINE BENYUS- Mother of
Bio mimicry

20. Design of
bullet train
inspired by
Kingfisher.
Glueless
tiles from
lizards foot.
Vertical
wind
turbines
from school
of fish.
A building
at
Zimbabwe
inspired
from
Termite
den
Storing the
Vaccines
without
breaking the
cold chain
like
Tardigrade
saving its life.

21. DOMESTICATION AND
BIOMIMETICS: A MAGNIFIED
VIEW