Sustainability and Risk Engineering

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SUSTAINABILITY AND RISK ENGINEERING
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................1
Selected Area.............................................................................................................................1
Climate...................................................................................................................................2
Four Corner Coordinates........................................................................................................2
Terrain Layout........................................................................................................................2
Number of commercial and Residential Building near the Selected Land................................3
Developing a typical Residential Design that Satisfies BESIX.................................................4
Basix Report Card..................................................................................................................6
An estimate of Embodied Energy – GaBi..................................................................................6
Embodied Energy Calculation................................................................................................7
Summary of the Embodied energy from tables and Comparisons.........................................9
Estimation of the Operational Energy Required........................................................................9
An estimate of the Overall Energy Required to Sustain the Sydney for Over 50 Years.........10
Determining the Embodied Energy of a Commercial Building...........................................10
The total energy required......................................................................................................11
Residential homes.............................................................................................................11
Commercial Homes..........................................................................................................12
Estimation of the Total Runoff Generated from the area.........................................................12
The Hydrograph....................................................................................................................13
Numerical Estimations.........................................................................................................14
WSUD Technologies...............................................................................................................15
The selected technologies.....................................................................................................15
Water Balance in the Urban Area............................................................................................17
Summary of the Data Collected and Analysed........................................................................17
Summary and Recommendation..............................................................................................18
References................................................................................................................................20
Appendix A: BASIC Certificate Sample.................................................................................23

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Introduction
Sustainability and Risk engineering is a concept of great disquiet in the currently used
engineering project implementation methods. This project study took an actual case of an
engineering project done in a 10 ha land to help device sustainable ways of engineering
development as relates to different engineering risks. The project describes on the use of
multiple software, such as the BASIX and GaBi, to come up with a detailed analysis report
to help comprehend on the aspect of sustainability and risk engineering in the implementation
and development of different engineering projects. Different aspects are evaluated in this
study.
Selected Area
The selected area for the study was in Sydney city. Sydney is a highly populated
metropolitan in Australia, but its larger outskirts stretch to include Sydney state capital
regions known to have a total of forthy local government areas. The city population estimate
as provided in the 2017 survey report is 5,230 330 number of Sydneysiders (Australia
Population 2019).
The 10 ha land selected was a section of the Cumberland state forest located at the
brim of the major highway sections of Castle Hill Road, Colonery Eve and Edward Bennett
Dr road (Google Maps, 2019). The thoroughfares stretch to other major residential and
business sections in Sydney state
A map on the selected land and the measurements

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(Settellite Pro, 2019)
Climate
The selected area climate is classified under alternating warm and temperate climate
condition. Most woodland areas, as identified with the selected region, experience rainfall
with precipitation averaging 1309mm ( NSW: Office of Environment and Heritage, 2019).
The temperature rate is 17.6 °C average annually ( Weather Zone, 2019).
Four Corner Coordinates
The fourcorner coordinates of the selected region are -33.743612 151.039438; -
33°44'37.00" S 151°02'21.98" E; r652hcpt1yzc; 56H 318390.53196734 6264544.8487007
( GPS , 2019).
Terrain Layout
The following image shows Satellite view of the 10 ha land showing the terrain layout

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Number of commercial and Residential Building near the Selected Land
The preservation of the land by NWS Forest Commission is said to limit the nearby
development of residential places. Also, the terrain of the adjacent land, for instance, the
West Pennant Hills, appeared to inhibit the construction of any mega nearby commercial and
residential building (Google Maps, 2019). On the east side of the land, the stretch of the 30
ha land out of the selected 10 ha of the Cumberland State Forest Also implies that a nearby
residential and commercial building had to be as far as the stretch of the 30 acres. However,
a number of the buildings were noted adjacent to the land as indicated in the map below
Source: (Google Maps, 2019)

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As shown in the above map, there were a total of 21 buildings proximate to the land.
The number may be little as a wide satellite view shows a number of the concentrated
residential location adjacent to the forest. The following image shows the concentration of
residential and commercial buildings that surrounded the selected area.
Source: (Google Maps, 2019)
Among the 21 buildings that were identified proximate to the development sections of
the forest land, 12 were residential buildings and 9 were commercial buildings. The type of
residential buildings includes six 3 bedroom houses with a dining area, a garage, a kitchen,
and at least one bathroom. The rest of the houses were one bedroom, two bedrooms, and 4
bedroom houses respectively. The types of commercial building noted in the location were
restaurants, small shopping centres, and office apartments.
Developing a typical Residential Design that Satisfies BASIX
A typical residential building was developed on the 10 ha land. A decision was made
on the selection of easily accessible building materials within the coverage area of the
building location. The major material used for the construction was Timber. Timber was
acquired through the clearing of the forest part in the development area. The design also