SILVA, J.M.; SILVA, Jhonata Marques da.
Abstract:
Given the environmental problems caused by the consumption of resources and waste
generated by organizations, new laws and policies for environmental preservation are
created, with increasing demands for the use of more sustainable practices and
management tools in their different ways of working. That is not different in the
construction industry, it being a heterogeneous industry that covers various areas,
especially infrastructure, it has a high importance in the economic and social
development, as it is an industry supported by a variety of segments, accounting for
much of the waste generation in the country. In this sense, this paper seeks to analyze
the products of a metallurgical aluminum company in the light of the Ecopilot tool. As a
theoretical basis the study utilized Ecodesign by presenting itself as a proactive
environmental management approach, which corresponds to the pondering of
environmental issues in the process of product development, targeting the mitigation of
environmental impacts throughout the product’s life cycle. There are, within the
Ecodesign field, several tools that aim to improve the performance of products under an
environmental notion, such as Ecopilot, a software that assists the manager in the
development or improvement of the product in order to upgrade their environmental
performance and identify which stage of a product's life cycle is more environmentally
damaging, suggesting strategies that should be adopted primarily and which should
follow. Information was obtained through questionnaires developed by the tool used
and asked to the manager, making it possible to obtain the necessary information in
order to analyze its products, leading to the conclusion that the stage of the life cycle of
those products with the highest environmental impact is the choice of materials;
specifically, the use of aluminum, for which the software suggests improvements in the
company's products’ environmental performance.
