Project Analysis: Energy Sustainability Design for a Studio Flat

This project analyzes the design and implementation of an energy sustainability system for a studio flat. The student utilizes various project analysis tools, including PERT charts and Gantt charts, to evaluate the project's timeline and activities. The project focuses on integrating solar panels and wind turbines to achieve sustainable energy consumption, with a detailed breakdown of energy usage by home electrical components. The analysis assesses the costs, benefits, and potential risks associated with each component, providing recommendations for improvements and a conclusion on the effectiveness of the sustainable energy solution. The project emphasizes the importance of renewable energy sources and their role in reducing carbon emissions, making the studio flat environmentally friendly.

The design activities of energy sustainability for studio flat
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Abstract
The previous parts of design and implementation of the project will be scrutinized and
every part of the project activity analyzed. The project applicability and the operational costs will
also be evaluated.
Introduction
The design model portrays a series of tasks to be performed during the project
implementation. The planners need to be specific in their activities to ensure project is
completed, various exercises should be done in a specific order. Every movement can either be
done inside ordinary time at a typical expense, or be slammed inside shorter time at a greater
expense. A venture director needs to analyze and discover the cost to finish entire task inside a
required due date.
An action on-node (AON) venture arrange is utilized to breakdown each and every issue
of the project. Every action is spoken to by a hub and the bends demonstrate the priority
connections between exercises. Specifically, the hub for every action with quick forerunners has
a bend rolling in from every one of these ancestors. The hub in this case refers to a point or series
of activities in specific time. During the program planning and time assessment, the task term
can be assessed by the length of the longest way, or the basic way. The venture span equivalents
to the length of the ways or instances through which activity must follow. In this way by
smashing exercises on the basic way, we can decrease the time needed to perform a certain task
(Budes, Ochoa and Escorcia 2017).

Project analysis tools
Various tools will be used to analyze the effectiveness of the proposed project. Analysis
tools have significant roles in establishing loopholes in the project plan. The review can also be
used to access the project viability. Supplementary activities which could increase the cost of
project will be eliminated in this stage. The sample tools listed below will be uses to analyses
different instances of the project.
 Program evaluation and review tool
 Gantt chart
 Product breakdown structure
Project review techniques
Program analysis and review tool is an evaluation tool that gives a graphical portrayal of
a task's course of events. It is a perception that speaks to the majority of the assignments
important to a task's finishing, and the request in which they should be finished alongside
the comparing time necessities. Here are the essential PERT arranging steps:
1. Recognize the particular exercises and achievements to be accomplished
2. Decide the best possible grouping of tasks
3. Develop a system outline.
4. Gauge the time required for every movement.
5. Find the best way to doing things
6. Be able to align PERT diagram as by the activity at hand

The sample PERT for the proposed project is as follows
The above shows the sequence of which all the activities and task to be performed must follow
(Edrawsoft.com 2019)
Activity analysis
This will involve sequence and task of installing various components. Activity 1 is the first
activity in the sequence, after which follows other activities
AA
A
C
BD
G
1
1 1
1
1 1
Actvivity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Activity 4
E

The A inside the circle denotes the activity to be done, that is solar installation.
The activity also has its associated task, which must be completed before the next activities.
The activity time is denoted in the first half of the circle.
Gantt chart
A Gantt drawing is a management tool use to describe the activities to be performed in
specified period. The x and y axis are used to describe actities and time respectively. The
instesection between the two describes the duration needed for the activity. Gantt graphs
summarizes the activities needed to achieve every task., also with the possible time to perform it.
Terminal components and synopsis components establish the work breakdown structure of the
task. Present day Gantt outlines additionally demonstrate the reliance (i.e., priority arrange)
connections between exercises. Gantt graphs can be utilized to indicate current timetable status
utilizing percent-complete shadings and a vertical "TODAY" line as appeared.
The following Gantt chart was used to analyze the time to be used by the project.
TASK NAME
STAR
T
DATE
DAY OF
MONTH
*
END
DAT
E
DURATION
* (WORK
DAYS)
DAYS
COMPLETE
*
DAYS
REMAINING
*
TEAM
MEMBE
R
PERCENT
COMPLET
E
activity 1
A
1

project
design
calculation 1/5 5 1/8 4 4 0 tech 100%
acquisition
of solar
panels 1/8 8 1/11 4 3.2 0.8 tech 80%
Roof
partition
and gaging 1/11 11 1/16 6 3.6 2.4 tech 60%
installation
of solar
panels 1/14 14 1/19 6 2.4 3.6 tech 40%
connecting
the solar
output
supply 1/17 17 1/23 7 1.4 5.6 tech 20%
activity 2
wind
turbines
acquisition,
based on
specificatio
n 1/9 9 1/12 4 4 0 tech 100%
installation
of wind
turbines 1/12 12 1/19 8 6.4 1.6 tech 80%
electrical
wiring for
turbine
outputs 1/17 17 1/19 3 1.8 1.2 tech 60%
connecting
the wind
and solar
power
supply 1/22 22 1/26 5 2 3 tech 40%
activity 3
installing
voltage
controller 1/15 15 1/19 5 5 0 tech 100%
installing
convertor 1/22 22 1/23 2 1.6 0.4 tech 80%
installing
the
batteries 1/22 22 1/26 5 3 2 tech 60%
connecting
power from
turbine and
1/26 26 1/29 4 1.6 2.4 tech 40%

solar to
charge
batteries
wiring
voltage
controllers
for
batteries 1/22 22 1/25 4 0.8 3.2 tech 20%
activity 4
general
studio flat
wiring 1/15 15 1/24 10 10 0 tech 100%
connecting
convertors
to the room
electrical
system 1/25 25 1/30 6 4.8 1.2 tech 80%
installing
general
appliances
and solar
heating 1/24 24 1/30 7 4.2 2.8 tech 60%
system
testing and
certification 1/30 30 1/31 2 0 2 tech 0%
In simplified structure, the Gantt chart for the project will be presented as above.
Analysis of individual project activities
The project has four main activities has described in the Gantt chart above.
Activity 1
The first approach to any project is to do a literature search. Literature search involves
evaluating existing projects, and drawing ideas that could be crucial in implementing and

improving the proposed project. Activity one was well done, each step had significant
contribution to the final project (Syafaruddin, Latief and Piarah 2017).
Take care of the following in undertaking the activity
Activity 2
The activity involved installation of the wind turbine. The activity was well done.
However, for success of any plan, risks or warning to any activity should have been included in
the design implementation. Most of the energy will be sourced from the photovoltaic panels, and
not the turbine. This activity is costly yet it contributes less to the energy requirement of the
studio flat.
The following ae the demerits of installing the wind turbine in the studio flat
 Most studio flats are located in urban areas, where wind flow isn’t much efficient, using
wind turbine will be waste of capital
 Installing wind turbine is expensive
 the accessible space required for the establishment of the modules
(for each 1,000 W of introduced power, around 3-4 photovoltaic
modules are fundamental)
 the right presentation and slope of the surface, which must face
southwards, southeast or southwest. The grade ought to be
somewhere in the range of 10° and 35°
 the nonappearance of any obstructions that could create a shade,
shades reduces power production of the photovoltaics (Budes, Ochoa
and Escorcia 2017).

 Causes noise pollution (Elevli, Koc and Kaya 2016)
 The areas where studio flats are located could experience wind fluctuations.
Activity 3 and 4 were the basic tasks, all performed by authorized electrical technicians.
Project outcomes
The main theme was to achieve sustainability through sustainable homes.
The breakdown of energy consumption in the studio flat could be as tabulated below.
Table 1 showing the breakdown of energy consumption in the studio flat
Home electrical
components
Total
quantit
y
Component
rating in watts
Average
daily
consumptio
n
Kilowatts used
in a day
lighting 2 5 10 0.01
Electric cleaner 1 150 150 0.15
microwave 1 200 10 0.01
Electric iron box 1 300 20 0.02
refrigerator 1 100 2400 2.4
Digital television 1 50 5 0.05
Personal home
computer 2 65 100 0.1
Cleaning machine 1 200 20 0.2
Clothes drying
machine 1 200 20 0.2
Electric cooker 1 100 70 0.07
Portable laptop 1 65 30 0.03
Charging phones 10 3 30 0.03

Total 4.17
Carbon emitted (in kgs of CO2e) 0
Expected power consumption is 4.17kilowatts
Zero carbon emissions, the above energy requirement for the studio flat emits zero carbon,
hence the energy solution is sustainable.
Recommendation and conclusion
Similar projects have been done before, to make this project unique, improvements must be
adopted, this will include the following
a. Using flexible solar panels, the panels which can rotate depending on the solar intensity
b. Efficient home appliances to uses solar energy
Adopting the above in the future work will contribute to a perfect and efficient energy supply
system. Solar and wind power are expensive to install, but in the long run, there are more
advantages than the other energy forms. This makes it a better sustainable energy solution.

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