Sustainable Design and Construction: Challenges, Strategies, and Pioneering Developments

MMK226175 Sustainable
Designs and Construction

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Critical appraisal of sustainable challenges facing Castle Combe Wiltshire along with
strategies to solve them................................................................................................................3
Critical evaluation of pioneering developments..........................................................................5
Future plan for developing sustainable town...............................................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Sustainable construction refers those buildings that have been developed or built with
recyclable or renewable resources (Xu and Shi, 2018). This study is based on developing or
building eco town by developer of Caledonian Eco-towns. This study will discuss some
sustainability challenges that developing countries and big towns are facing because of
increasing usage of vehicles and others. It will further discuss some ways or sustainability
principles by which a town can be developed or built in a sustainable manner. It will critically
evaluate some pioneering developments in order to know their strengths and weaknesses as eco
town. Some sustainable principles and factors that this study is going to discuss in a detailed
manner include: land and density, traffic congestion, development patterns and economic-
societies.
Critical appraisal of sustainable challenges facing Castle Combe Wiltshire along with strategies
to solve them
Introduction: Before discussing sustainable challenges, it is important to understand
sustainability concept with the main aim of knowing its importance. In regard to sustainability, it
can be said that it is a process of performing functions in a way by which people can meet their
own present needs without affecting needs of future generation (Moore and et.al., 2017).
Environmental factors are creating number of challenges for people and society members.
Increasing population is one of the main reason of sustainable challenges. They need vehicle for
going here and there.
Critical analysis
Factors like over use of vehicles and others lead sustainable challenge that have negative
impacts on people’s health. Some more sustainable challenges that local town is facing include:
Environmental degradation: Due to increasing transportation in big towns and developed
countries they rely on cars and it increases greenhouse gases as well as fossil fuel. It is a
deterioration of environment via depletion of resources. When people make use of natural
resources and assets to the great extent like water, plants and others then it leads situation of
environmental degradation. It can affect needs of future generation.
Traffic congestion: It refers conditions in transport that occur due to longer trip times,
increasing vehicle usage and queuing as well as slower speeds (Afrin and Yodo, 2020). When

vehicles are fully stopped for longer times then it is known as traffic congestion and it happens
because of increasing rate of vehicle usage. It increases carbon emission that affect environment
to the great extent. This is one of the main sustainable challenge that Castle Combe Wiltshire is
facing.
Inadequate urban infrastructure: There are number of people who are suffering because
of improper infrastructure including: poor communication system, public institutes and others.
Whereas, some people have all of these facilities to the great extent. Rich people makes use of
air conditioning, refrigerator and all other facilities that leads this problem and increase gap
between rich and poor. So, it is important for sustainability consultant provider as well as
government to provide equal distribution and making use of things that can be reused or
recycled.
So, on the basis of above discussed challenges, it can be said that there is requirement of
developing sustainable towns. Sustainable consultant provider will require considering some
factors while making an effective sustainable plan such as: approaches for pollution and waste
prevention, an effective land use planning for urban ecosystem, mobility management and
resource augmentation (Feltynowski and et.al., 2018). For resource augmentation, developer of
eco town can make use of 3R’s approaches that refer: reduce, reuse and recycle. Promotion of
transport planning can also help sustainability consultant provider in improving mobility and
developing eco towns.
Literature review
Some other principles, strategies and factors that developer of eco town of Castle Combe
Wiltshire will consider while developing eco town include:
According to the Wang and et.al., (2019) environmental manifestation is one of the main
factors that need to be considered. As it is discussed that pollution, global warming, waste
disposal, deforestation are main sustainable and environmental problems that developing as well
as developed countries are facing. So, they need to make use of such strategies by which all of
these problems can be sort out. It is important to have environmental justice and some associated
people and authorities need to increase awareness among people and educating them regards
negative impacts of all of these challenges. By educating people, usage of natural resources can
be decreased that can help developer of small town in successful development of sustainable eco
town.