Eco & UD House

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd
Eco & UD House
(exhibited in Ecoproduct 2006)







Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd, also know as Panasonic,
is well know for excellence of electronic products.

The Eco & UD (universal design) House is built with Panasonic's 6 principles of Universal Design.

1. Simple operations
2. Comfortable posture and motion
3. Consideration to safety
4. Displays and phrases that are easy to understand
5. Easy movement and space characteristics
6. Environment in which product will be used a factor of 10

This is found by dividing the resource output, by the input. This means you can either decrease resource use for the same productivity, or increase productivity with a fixed amount of resources.

Panasonic uses a version of Factor X that refers to the measurement to achieve a balance between the "improvement of quality of life" from the customer's viewpoint, and the "reduction of environmental impact" over the entire product life cycle.

Quality of Life is defined by number of functions a product performs for

• Safety / Sense of security
• Comfort and convenience
• Versatility and Flexibility
• Universal Design and Flexibility for all environmental impact if found by measuring
• Prevention of global warming (GHG factor)
• Effective use of resources (Resource factor)
• Reduction/elimination in use of specified chemical substances

Panasonics current goal is to reduce 60% of greenhouse gas (GHG) by the year 2010.
According to their current calculations, they have already achieved a factor of 5, meaning that the number of functions for products in the house have doubled, while GHG emissions have been cut by 40%.

-What's displayed?

1. fuel-cell co-generation and solar power generation systems
2. green roof the increase energy efficiency, reduce the warming effect of the urban heat islands.
3. House Shelter with High Insulator and Air Tightness Rainwater Pooling System.
4. a self-cleaning air conditioner
5. a hydro-fluorocarbon free refrigerator, a dish washer and a tilted-drum washer
6. dryer which clean with significantly less amount of water and long-life LED lighting devices which virtually do not need to be replaced.