Herman Miller Ethospace Nurses' Station - Environmental Product Summary - Manual

Our sustainability goals by the year 2020:
• Zero carbon footprint
• Zero landfill
• Zero hazardous waste generation
• Zero air emissions (VOCs)
• Zero process water use
• 100 percent renewable electrical energy use via renewable
energy credits and a power purchase agreement
• Company buildings constructed to a minimum
LEED Silver certification
• 100 percent of sales from DfE approved products
Environmental Product Summary
Ethospace ® Nurses’ Station
Design Story: A versatile, earth-friendly
environment
The Ethospace nurses’ station is designedby
Jack Kelley, the man behind the Ethospace office
system, Action Office
® , and Co/Struc ® system for
healthcare. Jack has adapted the flexibility and
durability of Ethospace’s frameand-tile design to the
strict requirements of the clinical setting. Efficient and
versatile, the nurses’ station works in a broad range
of applications, from patient care and emergency to
critical care and such non-clinical areas as conference
rooms and satellite stations.
Environmentally speaking, the high percentage of
recycled and recyclable materials ensures that,
after years of dependable use, the nurses’ station’s
components can return to the recycling stream rather
than ending up as landfill.
Herman Miller’s Design Protocol
Our commitment to corporate sustainability naturally
includes minimizing the environmental impact of each
of our products. Our Design for Environment team (DfE)
applies environmentally sensitive design standards to
both new and existing Herman Miller products.
The DfE Design Protocol goes beyond regulatory
compliance to thoroughly evaluate new product
designs in four key areas:
• Material Chemistry and Safety of Inputs—
What chemicals are in the materials we specify, and
are they the safest available?
• Disassembly—Can we take products apart at the
end of their useful life, to recycle their materials?
• Recyclability—Do the materials contain recycled
content, and more importantly, can the materials be
recycled at the end of the product’s useful life?
• LCA—Have we optimized the product based on the
entire life cycle?
Material Content
Ethospace nurses’ station components are constructed
from steel, wood, plastic, and other materials.
The nurses’ station is up to 56 percent recyclable at
the end of its useful life.
The nurses’ station is comprised of 53-percent
recycled materials. This figure breaks down to
15-percent post-consumer and 38-percent
pre-consumer recycled content.
• Steel components contain approximately 35 percent
recycled content and are 100 percent recyclable.
• Wall frames—finished with autophoretic coating
designed to last through many reconfigurations—
are free of volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
• Tackboard substrates are derived from sustainably
harvested wood products certified in accordance
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POST-CONSUMER
RECYCLED CONTENT 15%
PRE-CONSUMER
RECYCLED CONTENT 38%
STEEL 49%
WOOD 41%
PLASTIC 9%
OTHER 1%