Engineering Management for Sustainable Future

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Engineering Management for Sustainable Future
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Introduction
Construction governments, as well as clients have begun to appreciate and recognise the
effects associated with construction, design in addition to occupation of buildings have to the
society as well as the environment. Accordingly, the construction sector as well as
governments have a significant role to play towards driving and ensuring the sustainable
development objective. As a result, sustainability design engineers are working round the
clock with the target to design houses which minimise the use of natural resources. Certainly,
there is need to design building in a manner that decline the consumption of energy and water
as well as refraining from production of excessive usage of petroleum energy. Consequently,
there is need to design energy effective systems which allow for a greener environment.
Indeed, research has shown that good sustainable design stand a better chance to develop
buildings at a low operation costs which is a characteristic that will be greatly to not only
society but also businesses. In this sense, the intent of this paper is to explore the integration
of sustainability ideologies in the construction projects.
Ramos, T.B., Caeiro, S., Van Hoof, B., Lozano, R., Huisingh, D. and Ceulemans, K., 2015.
Experiences from the implementation of sustainable development in higher education
institutions: Environmental management for sustainable universities. Journal of Cleaner
Production, 106, pp.3-10.
Ramos et al. states that sustainable development planning is a vital component that should be
used to allow higher learning institutions to set their goals by taking concrete measures to
implement sustainability. Research has shown that global warming as well as climate change
are posing unequalled threats to all living things. Therefore, the rapid development of the
emerging nations is going to accelerate global warming leading to resource problem
exacerbation. Undeniably, this problem is significant in the long run because a majority of the

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policy makers acknowledge that for most of the developing nations the problem could result
in additional precarious sustainable development challenges which will impact on the welfare
of humans more immediately. According to reports by the Environmental Agency it is stated
that “it is high time there are changes in the building, production energy in additional to
technology make to ensure that it is more efficient since these processes always go hand in
hand with variation in the behaviour as well as the required lifestyle to be able to thrive
instead of surviving climate change” (Becerik-Gerber, Gerber, and Ku, 2011, p. 412). As a
result, it goes without saying that any method that help to fight against climate change is
worthy and should therefore be considered as part and parcel of the progressive sustainable
objective. On the same note, the support for sustainable activities can only be realised
through attaining the right balance between sustainable standards which include
environmental, economic and social implementation of the construction projects.
Subsequently, there is the necessity to advocate for sustainable construction which is relevant
to what is constructed today will help to protect the environment of the upcoming generation.
Thus, in doing so, this will impact the capacity of the forthcoming generation to be able to
realise their needs.
In accordance to Ramos et al. the primary purpose of the Education for Sustainable
Development (ESD) was initiated with the target to realise an equilibrium between human
and economic good fortune as well as the cultural traditions in addition to respect for the
planet’s natural resources using educational activities. In general the primary objective of
ESD was to include ecological, economic and environmental elements throughout the long-
term learning process. The focus and gaol of Higher Education for Sustainable Development
was to go past the generation acquiring knowledge so as to be reflect on the extra effects in
addition to decisions and behaviours in a future-driven and international perspective
accountability through inclusion of environmental, economic and ecological features into the

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entire process. Accordingly, the introduction of the ESD at university level intent to
implement programs that will allow students to not only develop competency and skills but
also foster attitudes as well as values that they will be required to muddle through with
upcoming sustainable matters as a requirement to realise their responsibility to come up with
sustainable societies. Therefore, through the process of education re-orientation the practice
intent to support the realisation of sustainable development competences through students
learning progression opportunity into an interdisciplinary, self-controlled, problem-based and
trans-disciplinary course. Thus, the benefit related to sustainable development is that it aid on
the development of students who are competencies related to alliance which is realised
through, improved communication capacities, decision-making built of problem solving
critical thinking, conflict management, teamwork and planning.
Through consideration of the education for sustainable development transformation concept,
it shows that there is need to redirect the association and resource amongst shareholders
engaged in higher education institutions so as to reshape the learning and teaching course
according to the principles of sustainability. Therefore, in regard to the latest perception
universities are inspired to encourage dialogue as well as communication about sustainable
subject matters as a way to reorient to the novel strategic theories. Indeed, these strategic
theories are vital to higher learning institutions because the transforming teaching and
environment standpoint. As a result, the teaching perspective are required to be flexible in
readiness to experience upcoming variations.
Khalili, N.R., Duecker, S., Ashton, W. and Chavez, F., 2015. From cleaner production to
sustainable development: the role of academia. Journal of Cleaner Production, 96, pp.30-43.
Khalili et al. states that cleaner production is a preventive way of regulating the ecological
effects of business procedures and products. Accordingly, cleaner production make use of