Building Environment And Construction Environment Design Audit

Review the Plagiarism and Academic Integrity website a http;/www.lc.unsw.edu.au/plagiarism/pintro.html to ensure they are familiar with the requirements to provide appropriate acknowledgement of source materials; and

According to the authors of ‘2014 AIA COTE Top Ten Winner: Arizona State University Student Health Services Building’ Kim A. O’Connell, Katie Weeks, and Annie Milewski, “this project offsets 39 percent of its total energy costs through an onsite, 69-kilowatt photovoltaic array, and renewable energy certificates offset 35 percent of the building’s remaining consumption”. These all help with the sustainability factor and

Energy use by buildings would be reduced by a Factor 10 or more below that of conventional buildings. The purpose of factor 10 is a long-term

The ‘Valley House’ (figures 1.1 - 1.3, page 3) exemplifies energy efficiency in both its locality and materials used. It has been strategically positioned within the existing topography on a north facing aspect to take advantage of the sunlight consistently throughout the day, minimising the need for daytime lighting, thus saving electricity. The main power

LEED, also known as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, “is a rating system devised by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) to evaluate the environmental performance of a building and encourage market transformation towards sustainable design”. The building has a LEED-EB Certification. People installed high-efficiency lighting systems. The purpose was to improve its controls to reduce the building’s energy consumption. Overall the building uses less water and energy which helps them save money.

After thirty years as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Fortuga Artisans, Peter Fortuga is retiring from the company he manufactured home decor. As a result, the company conducted an extensive search and found an ideal candidate Doug Jeffers. However, two years into his tenure as CEO Jeffers experienced a high turnover rate with numerous key resignations. During his executive assistant 's exodus, the employees and managers at Fortuga determined Jeffers causes the organizational concerns. Consequently, Jeffers became introspective, and he questioned his leadership aptitude. In fact, Jeffers would be astute to conduct a personal assessment of his leadership style, capabilities, and expanses of apprehension. In this case, Fortuga would be prudent to establish an evaluation plan and implement changes within the company. A healthy plan commences with the organization conducting a self-assessment, exploring their mission statement, considering the competencies of leaders, establishing leadership role models and mentors, conducting training, and soliciting feedback (Leadership Development Action Plan Template, n.d.). Ultimately, the assessment should be meaningful, manageable, measurable, and sustainable while providing action steps of what needs to be accomplished to mitigate the impact of incompetent leadership.

This report is an analysis of the energy inefficiency of a brick three storey terraced town house built around 1880 circa, and how the dwellings can be made efficient to meet required targets of 114MtCO2 by 2020 and also to comply with the Energy Act 2011 for the private rented sector

Building codes set construction standards. Depending upon the local regulations builders are required to use particular methods and materials. Local building codes set regulations for fire codes, plumbing codes, electrical codes, etc. In Ohio (United States), for example, state law sets minimum building standards, but local governments can mandate additional requirements. Permits are issued to enforce building codes. Plans for building or remodelling a facility must be submitted to the local building department for approval. A permit is then issued if the plans comply with the codes. Inspections by local governmental agencies may be periodically conducted throughout the construction, renovation and completion phases. Stop work orders can be

DFE aims to reduce the environmental impacts associated with products. In theory, this encompasses all the processes which occur during the lifetime of the product, starting with the extraction of raw materials needed for parts of the product and ending with the final disposal in landfills or through incineration. In between, a huge number of processes take place even with the simplest of products, from refining the materials to production of parts, assembly, packaging, distribution, use by the customer, possibly recycling, etc.

If St. Paul were to switch from our conventional (separate) heating and power systems to a CHP (combined heat and power) system, immense amounts of energy could be saved and repurposed (1). A conventional system is roughly 49% efficient (lost energy due to transport, heat loss) and that a CHP system would be between 75-80% efficient (1). An improvement of 30% in our energy production would reduce emissions, costs, and the need to purchase power. This idea of a CHP is great for the large scale, but not entirely feasible for the St. Paul Campus. The director of the steam plant, Joshua Svejcar, stated that the St. Paul Campus simply does not use enough energy (5MW) for a CHP to be feasible. Another project that ought to be considered would be converting steam to hot water. This is considered “low-grade heat” and would retain more heat during transport, thus reducing waste (1). Yet another fascinating idea occurs in the Dairy Barn on the St. Paul Campus. If we implemented a biodigester which can turn waste to heat, the amount of manure and waste from the Dairy Barn would be enough to sustainably power itself (1). This would also remove large amounts of methane emissions from the St. Paul Campus (1).

The Solar Heat Gain Coefficient (SHGC) is the measure of how much heat gets through your window. It determines how efficient your windows are during the summer months. Like the U-rating, you want your SHGC to be a low number between 0 and 1. Typically, energy-efficient windows have SHGCs of less than .8.

Changing the way energy in buildings is monitored, controlled and consumed can bring down CO2 emissions and reduce costs (Faucheux & Nicolaï, 2011) .

Overall this process is very linear and there is no way to reduce the flow time. Each step in the process must be completed before moving to the next. After reviewing the process, there are some items that work well and there are steps that are inefficient. Currently the only steps in the process that work well are associated with the engineering functions of the process. The Engineering group has had a 100% on-time performance for the last six years and has had no returned material acquisitions (RMA) in that time. These RMAs are a credit that will be refunded to the customer and will lower the margin on a project. It is critical that these are limited since they affect the bottom line. Once all the required information has been given to this group, the engineering can produce the design in a fairly quick manner. Our current engineering software does need to have some capabilities added to the program that could increase productivity and cause less time needed to check projects. At this time, there are some new building codes that have not been incorporated into to program. Since we are starting to see more projects using this new building code, this causes the engineers to make manual changes to the design, which has a negative affect on productivity. The most critical element of this process is step #2 (see process map). When the project manager reviews the project before sending it to the project service department. Over the last six years, this has been

DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR BUILT SPACES IN TIGER RESERVESabitation. The program’s efforts yielded in an increase in the numbers of the Bengal tiger. The tiger reserves cover almost 32,219.691sqkm of critical tiger habitat in the form of forests, meadows, mountains and scrubland. The unique and holistic approach of Project tiger gave a whole new perspective to wildlife conservation in our country. It is considered to be one of the most ambitious projects for tiger conservation in the world.

The energy analysis for the Architecture Annex was run with the settings of a 24/7 school or university building. The location was set to Urbana, IL, and the HVAC system was set to the default type. The analysis showed that most energy would be used on fuel,