Workshop: Environmental Implications of Additive Manufacturing; Arlington, Virginia; October 14-15, 2014

这笔赠款用于资助一个关于添加剂制造对环境影响的研讨会。加法制造，也称为三维打印，是一套计算机自动化技术，用金属、塑料、陶瓷、生物和复合材料制造三维结构和功能部件。研讨会将有助于确定与添加剂制造有关的环境影响和研究需求，并进一步为研究议程提供信息。它将在添加剂制造的用户和参与新兴技术影响评估的广泛研究人员之间建立富有成效的、持续的合作。研讨会与会者提出的想法将有助于政策制定者确定环境优先事项，以及各组织制定研究战略和教育活动。这次研讨会的目的是提供一个论坛，就添加剂制造的新兴技术及其对环境和职业健康的影响传播信息和交流想法。研讨会将审查关于添加剂制造环境影响的现有研究；确定知识差距和不确定性，有助于为未来添加剂制造环境影响研究议程提供信息；并通过吸收具有工业生态学、能源和材料质量平衡评估、生命周期分析和环境风险评估背景的研究人员，扩大关注这些环境和能源使用问题的研究社区。本次研讨会的主要学术成果包括积极应对添加剂制造未来使用的环境和职业健康问题研究议程，以及添加剂制造社区与环境和生命周期评估社区之间的研究共识。该研讨会不同于以前与添加剂制造有关的研讨会，其重点是环境影响。

This grant provides funding to support a workshop on the environmental implications of additive manufacturing. Additive manufacturing, also known as three-dimensional printing, is a suite of computer-automated technologies to fabricate three-dimensional structural and functional parts from metallic, plastic, ceramic, biological, and composite materials. The workshop will help identify the environmental implications and research needs related to additive manufacturing and further inform a research agenda. It will build productive, on-going collaborations among users of additive manufacturing and a wide range of researchers involved in the impact assessment of emerging technologies. The ideas coming from the workshop attendees will be helpful to policymakers setting environmental priorities as well as organizations developing research strategies and educational activities. The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for disseminating information and sharing ideas about the emerging technology of additive manufacturing and its impact on the environment and occupational health. The workshop will review the existing research on environmental impacts of additive manufacturing; identify knowledge gaps and uncertainties that could help inform an agenda for future research into environmental impacts of additive manufacturing; and expand the research community focused on these environmental and energy-use issues by including researchers with backgrounds in industrial ecology, energy and materials mass balance assessments, lifecycle analysis, and environmental risk assessment. The major intellectual outcomes of this workshop include a research agenda for environmental and occupational health issues that proactively addresses future uses of additive manufacturing and a research consensus between the additive manufacturing community and the environment and lifecycle assessment community. This workshop is distinct from previous additive manufacturing-related workshops in its focus on environmental implications.