Month: May 2013

Environmental Forum Foundation

May 30, 2013

SEMATEC has signed an agreement of accession with the Environmental Forum Foundation to the imposed a project that allows defining a methodology for the calculation of the carbon footprint (project Carbonfeel). Interest in the carbon footprint has led a variety of calculation methodologies that are leading to confusion, indecision and uncertainty. This fact is causing that much of the initiatives are facing unexpected obstacles. Therefore, Carbonfeel aims to provide to the society of a work method for the calculation of the carbon footprint based on actual data accessible, transparent and comparable endowed with a credibility that gives confidence to companies play them all in the same conditions at the same time, this prevents the propagation of an infinite number of seals and certifications from carbon footprints made to measure of the contracting company. In this sense, through the Carbonfeel project to which it has acceded SEMATEC, the proposed methodology will be validated through sectoral pilot projects that it be carried out within the framework of the project. The goal to achieve is the standardization of methodology of calculation, in strict compliance with the existing international standards and, accordingly, also achieving the standardization of the carbon footprint labelling. All this is based on the commitment to build a more sustainable society and committed in the fight against climate change.

Management Commit

May 25, 2013

Waiver of any need for external approval management must always watch the way how it works, plays, fulfills its functions, in order to avoid that the organizational climate of the company under their charge is negative. On other occasions we have referred to the errors that not be managers, more when one is attentive in the way as it performs the functions. Among some of them as we have already mentioned on other occasions, would be: do not blame others. Assume its responsibilities and pay their ridiculous. Do this test: extend your arm and point his index finger. How many fingers point to the guilty?: one.

How many fingers pointing him to you?: three. Think about that. Let the people resolve their problems horizontally. Only Inter-departmental, or Inter-functional problems should reach you only if its people are not able to solve them. Stop calling attention to others in public.

If you have to reprimand or confront someone strongly, do so in private. Do not allow to bring you problems without a proposal for a solution. This makes people be account that there is no free lunch and that they have a responsibility as executives, present options for consideration by his superior and that, eventually, will themselves be who will implement them. Do not tell others what they have to do, if you are not willing to lead by example. Modeling is the most effective form of communication. People do what the leader does, not what you leader says. Do not pretend to know it all. No one is omnipotent or omnipresent. If you don’t know, say: I don’t know! People will respect it more and will help you find the answers. Don’t abuse the need to be informed. Management does not need as much relevant data, but less amount of irrelevant data. Stop making destructive comments.

Articles

May 12, 2013

To learn how to write articles, written very much, and new on this topic, probably have nothing to say. But I would still try and insert a few lines in their overall content on this topic. To start to define the topic. It would be good if theme Your article coincided with the theme of your site or sold. Ok, if the theme of this writing, is very popular on the Internet. But nothing serious that you do not adhere to these tips, you can write articles on those topics in which you are good. Once the theme has been chosen, we begin to plan a future article.

It will help keep your thoughts in the right direction. That’s what I plan received for this article: a) introduction; b) choice of topic; c) a plan; d) tips for writing; e) Surreptitious advertising; f) ad unit; g) the name of the article; h) keywords; i) the conclusion. As you can see, the plan consists of the following items: an introduction, sections, conclusion. u Introduction – pair lines of what will be an article. u Sections – some questions that you want to uncover in this article. u Conclusion – conclusions from what you wrote. After the plan is drawn up, ready to start writing the article itself. For a better visual perception of your article, follow these tips: a) the language of writing should be clear and accessible; b) proposals should be simple and short; c) paragraphs 4-5 make proposals; d) Use bulleted or numbered lists.

Sustainable Housing

May 6, 2013

Sustainable homes is a new proposal for construction of the houses and the different constructions, which mainly seeks to give a better use of natural resources, i.e. respecting the environment to the greatest extent possible and likewise obtained a few certain benefits for the building from nature itself, how to save heating at the time of the arrival of the winter and air conditioning brother-in-law comes the summer, thanks to the conditions offered by the environment around the building, in other words we can say that the sustainable housing for eco or bio-construction, thanks to the implementation of a few technological advances applied to architecture, which have resulted in the most of the environment. Implementation of the sustainable housing, deployed mostly in buildings for public use, with the putting into use of a few criteria of construction with which seek to take advantage of natural components, hence it’s sustainable, since by means of certain conditions present in this type of housing can save energy, to allow a greater illumination and generate certain conditions in the climate inside the housing. The achievement of the sustainable housing, is largely due to environmental concerns, which found support in various useful technological advances within the architecture, giving way to what is called the bio-climatic, along with the bio-construction. So to achieve the conformation of the sustainable housing, studying the soils and their characteristics, also of the climate is paramount.

The previous studies carried out for the construction of sustainable housing, seeks to mainly have the environment to generate better conditions within the sustainable housing in such a way with the arrival of certain climatic seasons, to the inside of the housing environment will respond to this, therefore will not be so necessary deployment of appliances such as fans or air conditioners that made heavy use of energy; This is added to the sustainable homes also allow reuse of a resource as important as it is the water, provide better lighting conditions by implementation of certain media that help channel it and to reduce pollution emissions. As addition to the remarkable benefits that mean the sustainable housing for persons and their homes, architecture ecological and sensitive to the environment than is present in the sustainable housing, manages to avoid violent shocks in nature, to look for better environmental conditions from the same planning and construction; Besides its main achievement this directed to the saving of energy, through lower energy consumption. One of the important points within the sustainable housing is the presence of a few walls that accumulate energy from the source of the Sun’s rays, also a few thermal panels to keep hot water and photovoltaic cells. Other technological elements that help the formation of housing sustainable are passive solar energy collection systems and ventilation ducts that provide comfort. Original author and source of the article