MSP Project Briefs and Project Work The way students work in the MSP is different from the traditional way many might be used to from their undergraduate study. The traditional way has been for...

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MSP Project Briefs and Project Work The way students work in the MSP is different from the traditional way many might be used to from their undergraduate study. The traditional way has been for students to, say, attend a two hour lecture once a week and then at the close of the semester, students study the lecture material for an examination to test students knowledge of that content. For most courses, the course may have been running to the same formula for years , and some of them run twice in a year. So, there is often a set formula for the courses. With the MSP we run a new topic each semester and some may never have been covered before in that way or even at all. Frequently with industry experts who come with their own approach and material and sessions which involve them recounting and interacting with students from their own experiences. In the MSP we cover some excellent content from experts in their field during the class session times. And also we use these session times for students to engage with these professionals from industry, network and discuss their work that they are planning over the semester. There is no exam. We use the assessment for encouraging students to work on their own topic which is of interest and value to them. The topic could match what they’re doing at work eg a problem that needs to be addressed or it could be on a topic or industry sector where they'd like to be engaged in their future career. Alternatively the topic could just be of particular personal interest not related to current work or future career plans. In the past and at present students choose to study from a broad range from right across the sustainability spectrum. Examples derive from the highly technical to personal value systems and behavioural change and from the micro level to broad strategies. It depends on what the student would like to do to suit their area of interest and where they see their future careers heading. For example here is a list of some current and previous projects below: - Sustainable Transport Systems and Applications to Melbourne - Developing a Sustainable Business Strategy for a Shopping Centre - Green Buildings Design and Applications - Developing a Change Management Strategy Towards Sustainability in Victorian Agriculture - Cleaner Production of Chemical Wastes in the Textile Industry - A Sustainable Development Plan for a School - Passive Design for Sustainable Architecture - Business Plan for a Sustainable Event Company - Sustainable Food Production - Survey of Australias's Top 30 Listed Companies Researching Sustaniability Practices The assessment involves an initial, say, half page brief which outlines what the student wishes to achieve over the semester. This brief is required at the commencement of the semester and then a report is developed building on that brief over the semester and submitted at the end of semester. Two examples of Project Briefs are set out below. These are both technical topics although students might be interested in very different topics such as behaviour change, multi-media, community development etc. The concept for the brief is the same whatever the topic. Example 1 Project Title: Sustainable Building Design and Structural Carbon Reduction Background: Moving into the 21st century, energy usage and total carbon emissions in industrial and residential structures has progressed into a major issue for all parties involved. Populations are fighting hard to invent new and improved ways to live their lives daily whilst reducing their total environmental impact for governmental and personal restrictions. My investigation topic will study the various strategies and techniques available for parties who wish to significantly lower building greenhouse gas and carbon emissions in newly constructed and even in existing structures and also investigate various energy conservational techniques for a cleaner existence. By investigating various case studies involving carbon low and even carbon neutral buildings such as the infamous Grocon’s ‘Pixel’ building in central Melbourne along with the newly constructed Melbourne Town Hall Building, I will be able to provide professional recommendations on the best techniques for reducing total carbon footprints in buildings from simple residential housing all the way up to high rise structures. Objectives: · To investigate modern and existing building construction components and state which are able to be implemented to reduce total carbon emissions and energy usage globally. · To determine if producing a carbon neutral building is possible and what components are required to do so. · To investigate the various tests and regulations conventional buildings must abide by and suggest strategies in which structures can adopt to surpass these regulations more fluently · I will research and study various carbon efficient products and services such as wind turbines, solar panels and geothermic energy production and allow buildings to incorporate them into their every day processes · To provide why we as a society actually need sustainable design in this day and age and provide reasoning behind my calculations and statements Example 2 Dyson Airblade Trial Implementation. RMIT has purchased a number of high efficiency Dyson hand dryers, and would like to install them and compare the energy consumption with the standard type units. The scope of works involves: 1. Consultation with the Cleaning Coordinator and other stakeholders to identify high-traffic and low noise-sensitivity washrooms. 2. Development of a method to monitor energy consumption of hand dryer units prior and post installation of the Airblade units. 3. Supervision the administrative and technical aspects of installation of the Airblade units and associated monitoring equipment. 4. Liaison with Student Communications to organise online surveys via RMIT website/Facebook accounts. 5. Compilation of a report documenting the findings in energy reduction, financial payback and user feedback. This would be spread over 10-15 weeks, part-time. It may include other initiatives if time permits. The 1st example project brief is a very broad approach to a very broad topic. It would be based on internet search, literature review, case histories, international and local best practice etc. Things that worked - things that don't work or are not feasible. The concept would be for the student to gain a general overview of the topic area with detailed emphasis on selected sub-topics(to be determined during the work) The 2nd example is a very specific experimental trial. It is already focussed on prescribed objectives and outcomes. The concept here is that the student is breaking new ground with considerable trial and error involved. Students often ask how long should the report be and I guardedly suggest about 20 pages. Guardedly because of the diverse backgrounds of the students and the varied nature of their preferred area of interest and consequently there is a desire with the MSP to be less prescriptive. Although students can follow their own inclinations e.g. some MSP students’ reports have exceeded 50 pages. Now, using the two briefs attached as examples, I would expect no 1 to be greater than 20 pages. As, you would be aware, there is so much material out there available on the topic of sustainable buildings and readily accessible and the report would essentially be a summary of some of that material. Whereas for the example in brief no 2, the approach is totally different. There may be hardly anything at all published on the specific topic. The student would be expending most time on experimental design, measurement and analysis. So the write-up might be just half a dozen pages of text (or even less) with an extensive appendix of tables, figures and charts which mirror the time resource expended in planning the data collection, collecting the data and the analysis. So, in general, we say about 20 pages which, depending on the individual topic, is a reasonable effort. It could contain some charts, photos, tables, figures etc. but the report should not be filled up with, say, mainly photos and figures with a minimal amount of discussion. Photos are important, critical in some instances. However, if there are many photos, figs etc., then they need to go in an appendix with some of them and a summary of data in the main text with reference to the appendix. About assessing the finished product. For example No 1 above, it would be fairly difficult, (nearly impossible) to go wrong. It’s just a matter of the student applying to the task and making a summary. In contrast, example No 2 involves planning and capturing data and summarising. Now, it's possible that due to unforeseen circumstances, the whole project could go awfully 'wrong' but if the student documents the process and reflects on what went wrong and demonstrates how to improve the process for next time or in the future, then, that would be fine. In general, I find that students achieve the best outcome when they take advantage of staff and arrange progressive meetings/discussions/emails to get feedback /directions along the way. In some ways, this approach reflects the supervised research process.
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Green building Design and Application 15
Running Head: Green Building Design and Applications
Title: Green Building Design and Applications
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Date of Submission: 28/5/2019
Authors Note
The current report is presented as part of the requirements to complete the course work.
Background to the topic:
Green building Design and Applications are related with the concept of the green construction. Green construction is closely related with the environmental sustainability. The technique is employed to upkeep and protects the resources used in green building or the green structure construction process. Green building principles are continuously evolving, the technologies employed in the green building construction process are ever changing the old technologies are being replace by brand new technologies, which are more
effective and efficient in meeting the objectives of the building construction. Some of the most commonly employed objectives in the construction of the green building include processes such as Using the scarce resources more effectively. The process include usage of the energy, water and other resources effectively and there by the green building will not be subjected to the resource crunch at any time in the due course of time. Resources when employed conservatively, they can able to meet the sustainability demands of the future generations as well. Green Buildings will work to meet these objectives in general. The type of the construction and the facilities and the environment prevailing in the building has much to do with the health of the occupants. When there is good environment prevailing in the building, it is more likely that the health of the occupants will be quite good. At the same time if the employees are provided with healthy operational conditions, it is more likely that the productivity of the employees in the building will grow much the quality of the deliverables and the outcomes that they do provide also will naturally improve. Another important criterion that will be met by the Green building is the reduction of the waste generation in the process, reduction of the pollution from the building. Also during the construction and in the aftermath the green building will work on to curtail any type of environmental degradation that does happen in the organization. Green buildings are promoted in the recent years with these objectives in consideration. There are several goals in the making of the green building at present. The most important goals of the green building consists of developing an efficient and effective structure design, which can improve the structural strength and the efficiency while reducing the overall resources needed for the making the structure. Further other concerns like energy efficiency, water efficiency, materials efficiency(Employing better materials with the same expense and with improved benefits to the economic and environmental concerns), working for improving the quality in the construction, improving the ease and environmental implications of the maintenance and other related operations of the construction. Also, other concerns include elimination of the waste and the other toxics from the construction (during the construction and in the aftermath as well). Some or all these principles make up the goals in the development of the green construction in general. At the same time, though the basic objectives of the construction process are same, there is extensive change-overs seen in the pathways of the construction process. In the earlier years, the green construction is enabled by developing sustainable constructions from the scratch, however the recent years sustainable construction is being made as retrofitting of the existing old constructions as well. Developing minor changes in the existing old constructions and enabling sufficient development of the constructions are observed. As a whole the Green construction is an innovative approach in making this planet more viable and human friendly in the short and long term applications. Perhaps Green building is the potential solution to the problems of the energy crises and environmental degradation concerns evolved from 1960s onwards.
Scope of the Report:
Green building design and applications is very vast areas to focus on. There are several applications where Green building is gaining ground. Also Green building operational practices have undergone a great change in the recent years, extension of the existing practices to more applications and the development of the new principles and practices makes up the new development of the Green building. In this context the following relevant and significant aspects of the Green building design and application related discussion is included in the report. The following are the salient points of the discussion covered in the report.
· The background to the patronage of the green buildings at present, the root causes for increased attention and prominence assigned to the green buildings in general.
· A considerable literature review related to the Green building practices is also included in the current discussion about the Green building design and applications of the same. Evidential information is collected from variety of peer reviewed sources and included in the discussion about the same.
· The two important aspects of the discussion in the current report include, the design of the green building and related practices like what makes up the green building, how good they are developed and feasible? The second part of the discussion is about the application of the green building construction principles. Where these applications are being employed? What are the new trends in the application of the green buildings?
· What makes up the green buildings very much popular? What makes it so viable in meeting the current environmental and energy related objectives in general?
· Green building, what are the basic design principles employed for this construction? What makes it unique and what type of building codes are applied for the green construction in general.
· What are the recent trends in green building design practices, how the existing structures are being converted to the Green buildings? What type of focus areas are being employed for the green building construction at present, when they are employed from the scratch?
· What are the most common applications of the Green building? Where the Green building practices are used in general?
· Future scope of the work in Green building context. What developments are being performed in the Green building construction practices? How are they going to improve the overall deliverables from the Green Building?
Background to the evolution of the Green building:
As discussed in the previous discussion, the key reasons behind the evolution of the Green Building design and application is contained in the need for improving the environmental impact, curbing the environmental degradation, working for the betterment of the energy efficiency and the waste reduction processes. All these concerns generated interests and developments in integrating sustainability along with other concerns in the building construction practices. Alluhi et al(2017) indicated that the building sectors is the major contributor for the emissions on the global scale and is also one of the huge consumer of the energy on the global arena.
Green Building construction practices:
Literature Review
Building can include as high as 32% of the total energy generation and will include about 18% of the total global emissions as per the literature studies done by Zhang et al(2017). In line with the hike in the energy consumption and the emissions being made from the buildings, Energy and emissions evaluation and assessments are prepared by several countries across the globe. China is one of the key nations that involve extensive energy consumption in the building domains sectors. The energy consumed in this sector China is undertaking new building constructions at very high rate, as high as 40% of the new buildings are being prepared every year in china itself. About 1.6 to 2.0 billion square metres of the buildings are being constructed every year. Green building evaluation standards are different in different countries, the evaluation and the priority areas and the subsequent ranking is different. Code of sustainable Homes (CSH) has been developed in UK since 2010 and is in operations. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) has been developed by USA and is operational in the country since then. LEED of United States is undergoing changes and amendments to include latest concerns and advancements from time to time. China has its national evaluation standard for evaluation of the Green Building performance in general. Each of these standards are different in the frame work of operations and concerns in 5 of their operational sectors. The 5 criteria of evaluation include water consumption, energy consumption, material saving, site selection and outdoor and indoor environmental quality aspects.
Darko et al (2017) indicated that there are varieties of drivers active as of now on the global scale for Green building construction activities. As many as 62 drivers are identified in the literature and stated to be the main propellers of the Green building (GB) initiatives on the global scale. However still the entire set of GB drivers can be classified into few main categories viz.., external drivers, corporate level drivers, project level drivers, Property level drivers, individual level drivers. As of now the Green building initiatives are active in almost...
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