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## The UJI promotes the green public purchase of urban furniture in Europe

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The Universitat Jaume I (UJI) has designed a digital online tool to promote the inclusion of environmental criteria in the processes of public purchase of urban furniture in the European Union. Researchers from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Construction of the UJI, mainly from the Design Engineering Group (GID), have created a new evaluation methodology to support green public procurement. This new methodology, recently published in the scientific journal *Sustainable Cities and Society*, has been implemented in the software called GUF Tool thanks to the European Life Future project.

Rosario Vidal is the coordinator of the European initiative at the UJI and a lecturer of Engineering Projects. She explains that the new tool is a free-access online software for all the agents involved in a process of public purchase of urban furniture such as public administrations, manufacturers, suppliers, and so on. “Its interface is very intuitive, and much work has been done to make the final version very easy to use, even for those people who do not have specific training in the field of environment and sustainability”, she adds.

The Life Future project, which will end next December, has been developed over three years with a global budget of 605,496 euros, 340,613 euros of which have been financed by the European Union through the Life programme. The Technological Institute of Plastics (AIMPLAS) is the coordinator of the consortium that has promoted this initiative developed by six partners. In addition to the UJI, the project involves the Association of Cities for the Recycling and Sustainable Management of the Resources of Belgium (ACR+), the Technological Institute for Children and Leisure Products (AIJU), the innovation centre Las Naves of the City Council of València and the Croatian city of Koprivnica. Rosario Vidal, Teresa Gallego, Núria Sánchez-Pantoja, Gemma Tido, Amaya Bartolomé and Nuria Vernís made up the team of the UJI.

**SUSTAINABILITY IN PROCESS MANAGEMENT**

The GUF Tool to facilitate green purchasing is structured in three phases. The first one serves to consult and define the environmental criteria to be taken into account in a public process of purchasing green urban furniture, depending on the type of item to be acquired or the materials from which it is intended to be manufactured. The second gives access to the user's manual, as well as a video tutorial that helps in the process of entering data. The third phase, the more complex one, allows managing the environmental part of the purchasing processes: publishing public purchase offers, assessing products, comparing them, etc.

The tool can be used in English, Spanish or Croatian. It offers two levels of use depending on the level of environmental requirement that the public administration wishes to apply to the contract: gold or silver. As for the way the tool works, “it can be extrapolated to compare other types of products; however, the internal database of the GUF Tool should be adapted to other types of elements, since some specific statistical data have been considered for the calculations”, adds Rosario Vidal.

**STUDY OF THE POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT**

“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of *science*, whatever the matter may be”. This idea of ​​Lord Kelvin (19th century) is the spirit that encourages this research group to measure the potential environmental impact to avoid it in the design of new products, technologies and services. In this way, its members have measured the potential environmental impact in almost all areas: new energies, new polymers, urban and industrial waste, metals, wood, drinking water, transport, construction, tourism, etc. In addition, they have also actively participated in the promotion of more sustainable and innovative solutions, such as new mobility plans promoting cycling and walking, green public procurement for public administrations, development of projects with innovative renewable energies and circular economy projects that take advantage of waste to make new products.

From a multidisciplinary approach and with the aim of involving students in an innovative international project, Teresa Gallego and Núria Sánchez-Pantoja led the participation of the UJI in the Solar Decathlon Europe 2014 competition held at Versailles. In the design of the éBRICKhouse solar housing prototype, prefabricated and efficient construction solutions were developed, renewable energies were implemented and innovative systems were investigated.

More information:

Web of the Life Future Project: <http://www.life-future-project.eu/>

Publication: [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2018.10.011](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2018.10.011 "Persistent link using digital object identifier")

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