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Design of Environmental-friendly Products Using Information Standards

DEPUIS Introduction

1. The DEPUIS Project

2. Partners

3. Objectives

4. Life cycle thinking

5. Interested Parties Forum (IPF)

6. Multimedia handbook

The DEPUIS Project

DEPUIS - Design of Environmentally Friendly Products Using Information Standards

Aim: to improve the environment aspects of new products and services through the innovative use of new information standards

Fits the European Commission Integrated Product Policy, promotion of the use of life cycle thinking with SME’s i.e. take into account the full product or plant life cycle

A European project of 10 partners from 8 countries. Mixture of industry groups, consultants, software

companies, training institutes, certification institute Project runs two years: Sep 2006 – Sep 2008

Depuis standards network is one of 6 Europe Innova intiatives

DEPUIS, INNOVAFUN, BIOHEALTH, EUROMIND, STANDA-INN, STEPPIN

EU Participants in DEPUIS

Objectives of DEPUIS

Help SME’s to use product data technology (PDT) for communication, comparison and archiving technical data

Produce a Multimedia Handbook on product data technology

Organise e-learning courses with a view to enable SME’s to adopt IPP environmental tools such as LCA and Ecodesign

Provide basic knowledge to software developers in order to produce software compatible with international standards

Provide feedback to standards developers

Explore potential for a Certification scheme for PDT knowledge and skills management to support the environmental impact of products

Life Cycle Thinking and PDT

Interested Parties Forum (IPF)

Interested Parties Forum (IPF) is a collection of of bodies and parties with SME representation, invited to: Establish the users requirements Validate the multimedia handbook and

the e-learning model

IPF invited to assist in promoting the importance of PDT and LCT knowledge and skills to SME’s

DEPUIS web site: www.depuis.enea.it

Multimedia Handbook - Target Audience

Engineering managers Environmental

managers Environmental

consultants Product designers IT consultants Software engineers Project engineers

Procurement

professionals

Government bodies

Academic lecturer

LCA practtioner

SME advisors

Innovation advisors

Networking bodies

The DEPUIS Challenge

Demonstrate the beneficial effect of information standards on the environmental impact of products and installations

DEPUIS team works on the House Case showing the usefulness for optimising the house construction looking at CO2 emissions

Contact

Thank you for your time today if you would like

to know more about DEPUIS or would like to

join the Interested Parties Forum (IPF) please

contact

Jackie Seddon – Envirolink Northwest Ltd j.seddon@envirolinknorthwest.co.uk