Herman Miller Resolve System - 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
Resolve ® System
Design Story: A Simple, Precise, and Timeless
Office System
Herman Miller and designer Ayse Birsel saw the
sweeping changes in work and technology as a great
opportunity to reexamine and resolve (re-solve) critical
workplace issues. The result is the Resolve system, an
elegantly simple structure of poles and screens that’s
easily disassembled for recycling.
Resolve uses much less material than a traditional
office system, which significantly reduces its
environmental impact. Thanks to its dematerialized
construction, a Resolve installation weighs between
30-70 percent less than a traditional office, depending
on the office application.
The Resolve system has a precise vocabulary that’s
easy to add to and reconfigure. Its design is fresh
today, and will be for decades to come.
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?
level ® Certification
Resolve is certified level 1. The level conformance
mark ensures a comprehensive, independent, and
impartial assessment of the environmental and social
impacts of a product.
Global GreenTag CertTM GreenRate Certified
Resolve is Global GreenTag CertTM GreenRate Level A
certified. Global GreenTag CertTM is an Australian
Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)
approved National Certification Mark, an ISO compliant
ecolabel and Green Building Councils of Australia
and New Zealand recognized third party certifier.
GreenTag GreenRate certification enables products
to be allocated Level A, B or C in the Green Building
Council of Australia (GBCA) and New Zealand GBC’s
Green Star
TM tools and certify both VOC and
formaldehyde (composite wood) credits.
Material Content
The Resolve system’s components are constructed from
steel, wood, plastic, aluminum, and other materials.
Resolve is up to 56 percent recyclable at the end of
its useful life.
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® Y and Z, Resolve and Formcoat are among the registered trademarks of Herman Miller, Inc.
® level is a trademark of BIFMA International.
Global GreenTag CertTM is an Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) approved
National Certification Mark.
® GREENGUARD is a registered trademark of the GREENGUARD Environmental Institute.
© 2012 Herman Miller, Inc., Zeeland, Michigan
STEEL 48%
WOOD 31%
PLASTIC 12%
ALUMINUM 6%
OTHER 3%