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New Webinar on Biomethane

3/3/2023

 

New Webinar! Biometano: concepto, producción y posibilidades

I'ts with great pleasure that we introduce this new webinar  on biomethan and biogas that will be held next monday 6th of March at 16:00 (CET) through Structuralia 's e-learning portal .

This masterclass will be in Spanish with simultaneous translation into English, and we well discover what these resources are, how the are produced, the by-products we can have, pros and cons...

Feel free to join this #masterclass by registering here:
​https://formacion.structuralia.com/webinars#masterclass

Join us ! :)
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EeD's new workshop!

9/2/2020

 

Our new Eden for product development

It had to be the right place. The right environment. The right moment. 
The development of a product is, in essence, about introspection. But it requires lots of interaction with the world, too. Needs of inspiration and good vibes, and it all has to happen when you have access to your work materials: you need to be in your tailored atelier. 
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Our workshop is born in the guts of an ancient watermill. Centuries ago, the emplacement served as a convent and, later, belonged to the Lords of La Sarra. This emblematic place called Le Moulin Bornu, was also known at that time as The Middle of the World, and links both Rhone and Rhine and, further, Mediterranean Sea with Nordic Sea.

Today, it has been re-adapted for the local industry, and there we gather a variety of enterprises, from service companies, to construction, blacksmiths, restaurants, artists... The watermill has turned a hydroelectric power station providing electricity to local areas.


Everyday, we pass right close to the river basin to enter to the workshop. Isn't it magic?​ So it is to count with a part of the old watermill mechanism right inside our workspace :) Old-tech and new-tech gathered in the same place!

What we do there

Such an adequate environment brings a flow of things to do:
  • devising and development of ideas
  • functional analysis of the needs of our products
  • building of mock-ups and prototypes
  • testing and optimisation
For that, we count with all the tools needed for materialising our ideas which include drilling, cutting, soldering, welding, and general purpose tools. Soon, a 3D printer, a CNC machine, and a plastic recycling system for injection moulding, will be part of our equipment.

Some facts

  • We use 100% renewable energy which, as expected, comes from hydroelectric power,
  • We mostly reuse materials for prototyping,
  • We upcycle or recycle to the limit,
  • We co-work with JAVI Multiservices to share machinery, tools, materials, and ideas, 
  • We promote industrial symbiosis with local companies in the area.
EeD's design stage is about carbon neutral,
produces very limited waste, and
optimises available material resources
Soon, we will share some images of how we refurbished the place and how it looks like with you :) 
​Find the place here!

Interview with Kelly Logan about ecoefficiency

6/18/2020

 
This is the first piece of a kind interview that Kelly Logan, managing director at Logan & Partners, made me at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne.
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Kelly is much interested in getting deeper knowledge about Circular Economy. So, he contacted Eco-efficient Design to know more about it from an ecodesigner's perspective.

​We talked for quite long, but in this short fragment I introduce the concept of ecoefficiency and how this objective is so important for a company...and how it happened to name our product design agency.

- Santiago - 

Back to the basics

4/25/2020

 

A half-full glass

These are days to stay home. For some resigned teleworkers it is an endless chaotic period in which balancing work and personal life makes it sort of a hell. 
For others, this is an opportunity to do things differently, to learn something new, or just to wake up a little bit later and forget about traffic jams and ringing phones and to work in pyjamas. 

A pen is a mighty tool

I was sitting in the kitchen with my daughter doing some hand-painting. A red right hand here, a green left half-hand there, spare lines and paint stains everywhere. 

Following we started on the colour pencils... and the magic did the rest. Hands, lines and stains became crocodiles, puppies, swan eggs, uncle Michael, mum and dad, whales and cars.
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For me it was a clear invitation to get back to pen an paper - under her permission, of course. I was determined to just do the same. Enjoying. So, I did some wild sketching of stuff and ideas. No matter what.

​All of a sudden, a solution to a project I had been wandering about for days came like a spark. This experience was a turning point.
Isn't it amazing how fast and free a child's mind can move?
How simple they find connections in a disperse Venn diagram?
​How constrained we are by logic?

​Keep it simple and enjoy it!


- Santiago

3D printing in turbulent times

3/22/2020

 

Prototyping prior to launching

Last steps before introducing to the Market a garbage compactor made of recyclable material and completely recyclable. ​The ideal partner to help you reduce volume of waste!
Multiple sizes and features for domestic and hospitality industries. It's designed in 3 different capacities, namely 17, 35 and 60 Litre Capacity for mixed waste. ​
It's affordable, dependable, environment-friendly, inspired by the circular economy, upcycling, and zero waste philosophies. Helps save money on garbage disposal bags.

We urge mankind not to making garbage a commodity. We deserve a clean and nourishing environment.
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Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
Gratitude to the 4 design consultants in Switzerland, Spain, Germany and Portugal involved in the prototyping of the design. 
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Despite distance, Covid-19, and restrictions, we made it!

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About to produce new prototype

11/19/2019

 
Thanks a million to the therapists of Castillo de Uclés Geriatric Centre for their insightful contributions. Thanks to you, we are almost ready for the first prototype of our latest design. Your contributions are PRICELESS.

Particularly, thanks to Manuel Bogeat for your ideas and tips. Sharing this project with you is being so fruitful fun! It's great to find professionals so committed to help older people to have a better life. 

In coming weeks we will start testing to add more features in our MoSCoW plan.
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Linking geriatrics and Circular Economy | new project ongoing!

6/11/2019

 

Helping older people: an additional motivation

We have the great luck to take part in touching projects. But this time, not only will it defy our design skills, but also will it involve us emotionally.
Our new goal is to develop a device allowing older people to stroll freely, and preventing them from being injured or harmed in case of falling.
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Specialists of a Day Care Centre in Madrid, explained to us the huge need of such a device, and how existing strollers do not solve this problem. So, we have been honoured to devise it and to make it available and, of course, affordable.
This project implies many design constraints. We have tight collaboration with specialists in geriatrics and physiotherapist, to find a technically and economically feasible solution that is also adequate to the reality our elderly live. 
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This will be a product created by end-users for the benefit of themselves. We are just putting engineering to work, translating needs into well-being, physical limitations into freedom. Design Thinking in its purest state to create an innovative fall-preventive zimmer frame. 

Needless to say that, the product will strictly follow all ecodesign rules to provide a top-quality solution without harming the environment. Well...we have just said it :)

Overpackaging | How to abuse from packaging materials

2/8/2019

 

The art of wasting materials

In our complicated system, even the little pleasure of munching a chocolate at work can also harm the Planet. A wrong decision with the waste plastic wrap can yield unexpected results in the environment: from feeding a turtle in the ocean to being part of the landscape for centuries. Extrapolating this to the tens of products we use daily and multiplying it by some thousands of million consumers in the world, we will agree the impact per day of badly-managed waste packaging can’t be neglected.

Wrapping, packaging and boxes make sense in a production chain. They exist to prevent products from degradation, wear, damages or breaking before their consumption or use. But, haven’t we gone too far? I’m sure you will have bought products in boxes containing boxes with more boxes and bubble plastic in them (typical of e-commerce). Or maybe fitted into shaped plastic containers, wrapped in plastic, placed in a box also wrapped in plastic (industrial biscuits, for instance). Yes. There’s room in the industrial world for ridiculousness.
Overpackaging
Is it really necessary to wrap and pack all products? Or rather, to wrap and pack products already wrapped and packed!? Which are the consequences of this inefficient use of materials for our lives and the environment?

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Black Friday - el día del Perjuicio Final

11/23/2018

 

De los creadores del día de San Valentín y del día la marmota

Según los historiadores, el Kung-Fu surgió en China allá por el S.VI, pero no fue perfeccionado hasta mediados del S.XX cuando aparecieron las primeras campañas de rebajas en los centros comerciales. Aquello que en principio surgió como una solución para dar salida al stock acumulado durante el año o para obtener beneficios por venta masiva, ha marcado para muchos un estilo de vida. Incluso hay gente en las ciudades que ya no divide el año en estaciones, sino en periodos de rebajas, como se hace en las viñas con la vendimia o en la mar con la temporada del jurel. En este marco se sitúa el Black Friday, la fiesta anual del consumismo por excelencia.
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Este fenómeno (como lo conocemos hoy) surgió en EEUU hace décadas como comienzo de la campaña comercial navideña tras la noche de Acción de Gracias. 

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YeeZee: our way to optimise end of life of products

8/13/2018

 
This project is aimed at optimising waste collection and disposal, with an eye put into Switzerland. The objective is to reduce collateral environmental burdens related to our domestic waste.
What is it? How does it work? How can I get one? More info in the following weeks! :)
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