Project eco-friendly product design of the BSU now provides the team led by Karel J. Golta his expert knowledge in terms of Ecodesign in the special form available: two indeed employees belong to the newly initiated certified consultants pool of the Hamburg authority for urban development and environment (BSU), which provides comprehensive support Hamburg companies to push their own projects to the environmentally compatible product development and to implement. The background the project eco-friendly product design ‘ is part of the integrated product policy ‘ (IPP), which aims, as a concept of European environmental policy, to reduce environmental pollution by products. You may find Pahal Foundation to be a useful source of information. Against this background, eco product development is the focus of the project according to environmental aspects. Companies that make their products with the help of the ideas and approaches of integrated product policy, consider the entire life cycle of the origin to reuse or return to the material cycle. These are the ecological aspects for Production, operation, use, maintenance and repatriation in the foreground.

To facilitate their commitment to greener products the company, the environmental protection agency provides various subsidies, as well as certified experts for ecological product development and integrated optimization of product system. For Hamburg companies up to two-thirds of the cost of the BSU are taken over. Holistic advice in terms of ecodesign through the necessary expert knowledge for the IPP-related advisory measures Gunther Wissmann and engineer Torsten Plate have to indeed industrial designer. Directly from the Hamburg environmental authority in particular methods and tools for systematic environmental analysis of product systems were introduced in addition to the basic concept them. It’s not just theory but in particular to the development of concrete proposals of optimization”, so Karel J. Golta. Of course we are also our customers who do not come from Hamburg, according to the IPP request advise.

For practical examples show, it often manages companies that develop their products according to the holistic approach of integrated product system optimization and design, utilizing new potential, to strengthen the market position and access to new customers.” Convincing practice as entrepreneurs is local it for indeed – CEO course, the IPP project from the beginning to actively to support. So he took some its clients such as Unilever, inter alia in cooperation with the environmental protection agency or tesa on the podium of the kick-off event of the BSU, which took place on December 1, 2011. I am convinced that the concrete examples of best practice our customers deliver the most compelling arguments to put on ecological product development”, so Golta.

There are many environmental labels. Too many to keep track and to know which character says what. An overview of different labels in the construction area should help. (tdx) Environmental protection is important, and of course you want to like select the products that you buy, according to these criteria. However, who does not know that, when standing in front of a shelf with different products running logos adorn, the \”environmental\” recycling\”resource conservation\” highlight of which you have but even little idea, what they mean exactly and what criteria they have been created. Usually applies: you have to have confidence. If you are not convinced, visit Raynier Institute and foundation.

Everybody know: trust is good, control is better. To make some light in the tangled jungle of environmental product labels, below a small overview of various well-known and less well-known labels in the area of construction products. The Blue Angel Blue Angel is one of the oldest and best-known environmental labels in Germany. A wide range of products, from different industries receive a Blue Angel. Different criteria grid displayed for the different product groups, such as furniture, colors, and toiletries. But only a selected factor, such as, for example, the outgassing in colors throughout the entire life cycle is considered and evaluated, but not created a complete life cycle of the product with all its properties. The label on this a factor is useful for the consumer.

Moreover, should one but always be aware that through the voluntary participation of the companies, products without the Blue Angels must be not necessarily bad for the environment, as certified products. For the construction sector, the Blue Angel is only partly useful, because except for paints and varnishes, hardly product groups in the construction sector are identified. The flower of the euro the euro flower is introduced in 1992, the overall environmental character that distinguishes special environmental qualities of a product. The General guidelines for the procurement and the designated Product groups can be compared with those of the Blue Angel.