ALAMEDA, CA — A pair of longtime consulting firms are teaming to help companies address current and emerging global environmental requirements while minimizing implementation costs.

Technology Forecasters and Design Chain Associates announced a new service called the Design-for-Environment Process Integration Roadmap, which aligns product roadmaps with current and emerging environmental requirements from global regulators, corporate customers, consumers, standards organizations, and non-government organizations around the world.

In a press release, the companies said regulations often are addressed as a single event and companies put in place rudimentary systems to comply with new requirements. The DPIR service, they said, projects the trajectory of these regulations over a five-year period, allowing the development of internal processes that anticipate future requirements, enabling them to be managed in a proactive manner.

“DCA develops this trajectory of environmental requirements through its involvement with clients, in standards committees, discussions with regulators, academics, NGOs, and regulations-development processes,” says Tom Valliere, DCA senior vice president.  “We rapidly assess clients’ existing preparedness for current and future requirements, then consolidate and match the relevant requirements to our clients’ product roadmaps.”

“Frankly, I noticed that the changing nature and expanding scopes of environmental-protection requirements can be overwhelming to clients,” said Pamela J. Gordon, president of TFI,  “It’s too much to ask of especially mid-sized and smaller companies to staff the number of product stewards needed to continually track global requirements and align their product roadmaps accordingly.  That’s when we developed the highly customized DPIR service.”

DPIR leverages the two firm's existing models and programs to benchmarks company operations and develops custom roadmaps for an integrated DfE program targeted specifically to each company’s products and goals.