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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Confirm design
   • Develop selected design
   • Confirm life cycle sustainability impacts
   • Review design against product requirements
   • Obtain required authorisations
   • Document design in the required form
2. Define parameters of new or improved product
   • Consult with stakeholders to determine required function, performance and aesthetics of new product
3. Identify market, expected time to market and cost constraints of product and production process
4. Identify requirements with possible high sustainability impacts
5. Negotiate requirements to achieve desired sustainability impacts
6. Develop agreed definition of product requirements
7. Develop alternative product and process designs
   • Identify alternative resource requirements
8. Identify alternative processes
9. Determine the possible sustainability impacts of different combinations of resources and processes
10. Test alternative product and process designs against original product requirement definitions
11. Identify product requirements which may be causing significant sustainability impacts
12. Renegotiate product requirements to lessen sustainability impacts
13. Short-list preferred resources and processes
14. Evaluate life cycle impacts
    • Estimate life cycle sustainability impacts for each short-listed alternative
15. Identify process steps with greatest sustainability impact
16. Evaluate process steps for alternatives and modifications with lower impact
17. Select alternative which best meets requirements and has the lowest sustainability impact
    • Develop selected design
18. Confirm life cycle sustainability impacts
19. Review design against product requirements
20. Obtain required authorisations
21. Document design in the required form
22. Prepare for implementation
    • Consult with key stakeholders
23. Identify key measures for monitoring implementation of design
24. Identify data sources required by key measures
25. Organise for data to be captured and manipulated