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o Cleaner Production in the view of this project is a systematic approach to operational improvement of foundry companies. In this context it is quite important to state that your company know-how is the most important expertise to develop economically and environmental friendly solution for the benefit of your organisation. You know your procedures best and it is essential for the success of a CP project that this knowledge, detailed information about your company, is compiled and transferred to the external CP expert. Only with the help of this data the consultant is able to analyse strength and weaknesses of the organization as a hole and is able to generate reasonable business solution from an external point of view.
o The methodology of this knowledge and data collection depends on the specific situation of your company, and may sometimes be rather exhaustive. In big companies, a lot of data may already be available and electronically retrievable by simply pressing some keys. In other companies only few data will be available and need to be generated during the assessment phase of this project. In any way the result of the first project phase will be a comprehensive collection of your company data to identify feasible CP options, to assess the development and results of the measures and to provide the management with figures for project review. The data acquisition will as well be the basis for the technology assessment report and the final Cleaner Production report, necessary for the ECOPROFIT award.
o To facilitate you an efficient and effective data acquisition in compliance with the CENTRIC CP methodology the international expert team has developed a format for the CP report containing all necessary instructions, data form sheets and tables to develop the final CP report. This report will be completed during the project by developing and completed step by step all form sheets and tables. You will get detailed instructions to each table and additionally the international and national CP expert team will assist you in developing the database of your company. The report will include basic information of your company, a detailed data inventory, the formulation priority areas and reasonable measures, an action plan and appropriate indicators for the implementation and monitoring of the identified CP options. The report will in the final stage also contain your environmental policy and technology recommendations.
o The report will be evaluated by the CENTRIC project managers. All company specific data will be kept confidential.
The EIUP working report is a document, which should be completed step by step during the project life time by the city. It will be the basic document, where the city and the international expert team can follow the progress made.
o The guideline follows the enumeration of the EIUP working report to give basic advice how to complete the form step by step until project end.
o The EIUP working report was especially developed to be applied within the project. It describes the methodology for Energy Integrated Urban Planning (EIUP):
§ EIUP should be based on a reliable database.
§ EIUP should be in line with superior given frameworks (policy, legislation).
§ EIUP should be interrelated with other planning sectors.
§ EIUP should involve all stakeholders and generate benefits for the whole citizenship.
§ EIUP should contribute to sustainable economic, environmental and social development.
§ EIUP should respect the local conditions (demands, constraints, resources).
§ EIUP should identify feasible and justified improvements.
§ EIUP should prepare the reliable ground to take concrete action.
o The EIUP working report is structured in several chapters:
§ Socio-economic City Profile
§ Energy and Environment
§ Stakeholder Analysis
§ Definition of problems and targets
§ Option finding
§ Action Plan
§ Summary
o The seven chapters are logically combined and fulfil the requirements of sound project management and integrated planning:
§ The first two chapters (1, 2) have merely describing character to provide sufficient information about the existing situation in social, economic, environmental and energy-related aspects, from which the city starts its efforts of EIUP.
§ The next two chapters (3, 4) have analytic character, to identify the scope of required integration under the view of pressing problems.
§ The next two chapters (5, 6) will help to clarify options under the view of their feasibility and implementation aspects. Reaching these chapters the efforts of the detailed analysis done should be awarded by clear recommendations to take action according to clear priorities and feasibility.
§ The final chapter (7) should provide a summary, which can be communicated within the city and to third parties.
o The EIUP working report is a very comprehensive document; and very comprehensive information will be needed finally, when it comes to justify investments or to raise funds. At the end of the Integrated Planning process most cities will need support from external partners. They should have the document which contains all major information on economy, population, energy etc. This is why we try to provide the participating cities with a single reporting document tailor-made for each of the cities. We should avoid proposing only single measures that look nice, but are not feasible at the end or miss the real crucial demands of the city.