DYNA JOURNAL ENGINEERING

Key words:

Establecimiento Industrial, indicadores, desarrollo sostenible, localización, multicriterio, Industrial Establishment, indicators, sustainable development, localization, multicriteria

Article type:

ARTICULO DE INVESTIGACION / RESEARCH ARTICLE

Section:

RESEARCH ARTICLES

ABSTRACT:
The choice of locations for the implementation of industrial activities is a complex problem where the cost and efficiency criteria have been adding new ones relating to the environment impact and the company's corporate image reflected in CSR.

The environmental criteria have been getting big importance in the final decision, to become key elements in the final decision, due to the duty of submit of environmental assessment projects.

Therefore, promoters, quite often, ask previously to the Administration about the viability of their projects before starting a lengthy administrative procedure.

This paper proposes the use of sustainability indicators and their application through a multi-criteria decision model for managing the establishment options initially considered, so that they become an help instrument of estimaton in order to making these decisions. To show its usefulness we propose the use of the support tool for decision making based on the PROMETHEE methodology and its application in the management of 5 alternative sites for the installation of a cement factory in the Community of Madrid under sustainability criteria.

Keywords: Industrial Establishment, indicators, sustainable development, localization, multicriteria.