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A Corporate Waste Minimization Committee at Du Pont has a charter to coordinate common concerns and solutions for reducing waste and to increase the awareness throughout the organization of the potential opportunities and economic benefits for minimizing waste.

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In the PASCOOL research program, which is part of the European research project Joule 11, one task was dedicated to the development of an interactive software that would summarise the result of the Pascool research program and show the applicability of passive cooling in Mediterranean countries. The aim was to encourage designers to make use of passive cooling strategies in existing and new buildings. Therefore, a software called PEM, Pascool Electronic Metahandbook was created. A selection of buildings from the southern European countries are presented in this software. These buildings had been previously monitored and simulated as a separate task within the Pascool program.In addition, the software contains a climate database and simple predesign tools for dimensioning insulation and solar protection.Version 1.2 of this software was completed in October 1995 and is available on CD-ROM.