Tools

Cost Calculator

The cost calculator from the VDI Centre for Resource Efficiency provides users in small and medium-sized businesses with a practical way of carrying out resource-related cost calculations. It allows users to analyse cost structures and material and energy flows in companies, which in turn helps them identify resource efficiency potentials.

Resource checks

Take some minutes and test the efficiency of your company and find out where in the business the saving potentials are to be found. Several questions on the operational and production procedures and a detailed evaluation will give answers to increase efficiency.

WebVideomagazine

Our WebVideomagazine contains over 37 videos focusing on resource efficiency. Different technologies and processes give advices of improvement and technology change to raise material and energy efficiency.

Our mission

Read more about resource efficiency in our publications. We provide a comprehensive overview of contemporary knowledge about resource efficiency in selected fields of technology.

VDI Centre for Resource Efficiency

The VDI Centre for Resource Efficiency (VDI ZRE) ist closely connected with the VDI Association of German Engineers. With more than 150.000 members, the largest association of engineers in Germany pools experts for interdisciplinary dialogue and propagates knowledge of current developments in science and research, economy, society and policy.

As the Competence Centre for resource efficiency, the VDI ZRE works at the interface between business and science and pools know-how from theory and practice. The VDI ZRE was launched in 2009 as a cooperative project of the Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and the VDI.

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