• Skip to content
  • Skip to nav
  • Become a member
  • Technical groups

Return to IOM3 home

  • Contact IOM3
  • About IOM3
  • Member network
  • Log in
  • Home
  • News
  • Features
  • Events
  • Links
  • EU programmes
  • Standards
  • Community board
    • Mission
    • Annual reports
    • Board papers
  • Contact us
IOM3 Home › Technical groups

Welcome to the Sustainable Development Group

The Sustainable Development Group (SDG) is the centre of expertise on Sustainability and the Environment in IOM3. Its roles include the promotion of whole life-cycle thinking across the professional interests of the members of IOM3 and it provides a body of expertise to respond to requests to the Institute for opinions on sustainable development and the environment.

News

High Performance Coatings conference

High Performance Coatings conference (27 June 2013) looking at current surface engineering issues in high technology manufacturing sectors
Surface engineering, 10 Jun 2013

Notice of IOM3 Annual General Meeting

The Institute's Annual General Meeting will be held on 9 July 2013
IOM3, 03 Jun 2013

Exemplary Chartered Environmentalists

Chartered Environmentalists invited to the House of Lords in recognition of their achievements
IOM3, 29 May 2013
See all news

Features

Regarding broken ground - Jan Lewis discusses his love of geology and engineering

Problem solving with Jan Lewis from Wardell Armstrong International
Materials World Magazine, 30 Apr 2013

Q&A - Sustainable construction

Andy Pitman from TRADA Technology, UK, talks to Wood Focus about sustainable construction with wood.
Wood Focus Magazine, 29 Apr 2013

Laying down the law - Tropical hardwood substitutes make logging more sustainable

Creating tropical hardwood substitutes using maple, pine and southern yellow pine through Kebonisation

Wood Focus Magazine, 29 Apr 2013
See all features

Events

High Performance Coatings

27 Jun 2013, Leicester, UK
East Midlands Materials Society Regional Conference

Ecocomp 2013

03 Jul 2013 - 04 Jul 2013, Birmingham, UK
5th International Conference on Sustainable Materials, Polymers & Composites

3rd International Conference on Environmental Pollution and Remediation

15 Jul 2013 - 17 Jul 2013, Toronto, CANADA
ICEPR is a series of international conferences held yearly. These conferences focus on all aspects of Environmental Scie
See all events

Jobs

Lecturers / Senior Lecturers in Mining Engineering or Geology - University of Exeter

£32,267 - £53,233 per annum, Camborne

Camborne School of Mines seeks to appoint additional academic staff from autumn 2013

See all jobs

New EU Strategy for Raw Materials

On 2nd February 2011, the European Commission adopted a new strategy of measures to secure and improve access to strategic raw materials for the EU. A report has been published and a link to the relevant EU site has been added to the EU programmes page of this micro-site

European Forum on Ecco-Innovation

The report and summary of the 10th European Forum on Ecco-Innovation held in Birmingham on 22-23 March 2011 can be obtained from this link

Innovation Towards Sustainable Materials

Many of the presentations from this Conference held on 10-11 November 2010 can be viewed by following this link.

Materials World

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The IOM3 member magazine

Materials World is specifically devoted to the engineering materials cycle, from mining and extraction, through processing and application, to recycling and recovery. Editorially, it embraces the whole spectrum of materials and minerals – metals, plastics, polymers, rubber, composites, ceramics and glasses – with particular emphasis on advanced technologies, latest developments and new applications, giving prominence to the topics that are of fundamental importance to those in industry.

  • Home
  • Contact IOM3
  • About/FAQ
  • Venue hire
  • Press room
  • Privacy
  • Copyright
  • Accessibility
  • Terms
  • Login

This website uses cookies. For details of what they do and how to disable them if required, please see our privacy page.