ECO-SUS-HW-001¶
Name: Premature hardware refresh policy
Category: Sustainability & Environmental Impact
Family: Hardware Lifecycle
Primary layer: process
System layers: process
Description¶
Hardware is refreshed on a fixed schedule without utilization, repairability, reuse, or embodied-impact review.
Impact¶
- type: embodied-impact
- confidence: 0.6
- notes: Added as part of the 0.3.0 expansion to capture cross-system sustainability and operational waste.
Detection¶
- method: static-or-runtime
- confidence: 0.55
- runtime_validation_required: Yes
Remediation¶
- guidance: Base refresh decisions on reliability, security, workload fit, repairability, reuse, and embodied impact.
- tradeoffs: May require architecture, product, or operations review rather than a local code change.
Cost Dimensions¶
- compute: low
- memory: low
- network: low
- storage: low
- human_time: medium
- carbon: high
- water: medium
Amplification¶
- scales_with_users: No
- scales_with_data_volume: No
- scales_non_linearly: No
Temporal Behavior¶
- startup_only: No
- steady_state: Yes
- burst_sensitive: Yes
- time_degradation: No
Runtime Evidence¶
- asset inventory
- procurement policy
- utilization data
Pattern examples¶
No pattern examples provided.
Remediation examples¶
No remediation examples provided.
Metadata¶
- catalog_version: 0.4.0
- status: draft
- source: catalog expansion recommendations applied 2026-05-21