Sustainable Engineering & Logistics: Building Development Report

This report analyzes the issues and challenges related to environmental, economic, historical, and cultural factors affecting building development projects, particularly in central London. It discusses various renewable energy sources like solar, wind, geothermal, and hydro, emphasizing the importance of solar energy for this specific project due to its reliability and cost-effectiveness. The report also covers supply chain management and procurement of materials, highlighting the critical steps involved in planning, development, manufacturing, delivery, and returns to ensure efficient construction operations and environmental sustainability. The health and safety measures for building construction sites are also considered, aiming to make all building constructions sustainable and effective for environmental safety. The document is available on Desklib, a platform offering AI-based study tools and solved assignments for students.

Environmental Sustainable Engineering
& Logistic

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PART 1............................................................................................................................................1
Issues and Challenges of Building Development process...........................................................1
ii). Discuss about the different types of renewable energy or sustainable source that could be
used for project. clarify reason for choice...................................................................................1
Supply Chain Management and Procurement of Material Resources.........................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
In current time it is important for business organization to keep their actions sustainable.
This is quit important for business organization to follow the regulations related to the corporate
social responsibilities to meet all its duties related to social duties. Sustainable engineering is a
process that includes designing or operate system that works on sustainable energy and resource
consumption. This process is also consists of different concepts which are associated to future
development in sustainable business operations. This report is analysing different issues and
challenges related to environmental, economic, historic and cultural issues that can affect the
cost and timely process of a project. Various renewable sources will be explained that can be
used in the building development process. This is crucial part to manage proper plans that can
hep the organization to manage all its operations to make proper developments in the building
development process. Particular reasons of selecting sustainable resources is also mentioned in
report. Supply chain management and procurement of material resources also will be explained
in the study. Various health and safety measures are considered for the building construction site.
All different building constructions are analysed to make them sustainable and effective for
environmental safety.
PART 1
Issues and Challenges of Building Development process
In a building development process that includes different steps that might affect the
environment severely. This is basic need of of organization to consider all the measures like
issues and challenges of building development process to avoid various minor or major failurs in
the building development process.
Various Issues and Challenges in Building Construction Process
Environmental Factors
The environmental factors are more complex for a building construction process. The
impact of environment is also huge on the building construction and planning. It can affect the
planning and execution of different operation that are required to keep construction process
running. Some of main issues in the building development process related to environment are
weather conditions, accessibility of location and sustainability of the construction process. The
impact of weather condition on construction process id too high. Extreme weather can cause
harm to the development in the construction. For example this is not possible to perform any
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wood related or concrete operate in the rainy condition. This can affect the quality of work in the
building construction. The geographic condition of construction site also can cause issues in the
construction process. If area is over crowded or less accessible so this can slow down the
operation of construction site. Apart from these issues some of sustainability issues are also
crucial for building construction because the resources used in it can cause pollution. The major
problem in this is about consumption of various natural resources that are limited. So, this is
major problem in construction process to keep all actions sustainable in construction process.
Economical Factors
There are some economic issues are faced by people in the construction process that can
affect the cost and schedule of process. The main economic issues issues in the building
construction process are cost of raw material, inflation, economic stability of nations and cost of
new and sustainability technology for construction process. These all factor are important for
organization to manage the economical operation of the construction process. As the natural
resources are limited so it is not possible to make available these resources on low cost. It is
major issue for the construction process. Inflation also can be related to the cost of raw material
that is required in construction process. The main issue with construction process is about
sustainable and innovative machines that are base on efficient energy and resource consumption.
The cost of this technology is too high and it is not possible to keep project under budget with
economic issues like this.
Historical Factors
As the building is proposed to developed in the central London which is consists of
different buildings and structure which is consists of historical value. These buildings are
important for the tourism in country. The history of United kingdom is connected to the these
buildings. So, this is major problem for construction engineer to keep their operation running
without affecting other building nearby. The other issue related to this about keeping the external
design of building as per the surrounding building to avoid distractions.
Cultural Factors
The main cultural issues with construction site are related to the personal values of the
people who are associated with the process of construction and design of the building. This is
about the design and construction process. If the design of building can affect persona values of
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worker and people who lives surrounding then it can cause severe issues to the construction
process. This is how cultural factor can affect the construction city Centre.
Challenges
There are different challenges are faced by people on construction site. This challenges
on site are related to different factors. Some of main challenges are associated with the skills of
workers, lack of communication skills, work management, time management and plan
management. This are some main issues and challenges in the building construction process.
Lack of skills in worker can affect the quality and structure of the building which can not be
avoided. This is most important to manage the work and time to complete the project with high
efficiency and with dead line.
That is how different issues and challenges are faced by people in the building
construction in the centre London of a City Centre that worth of 340 Millions. This all issues are
need to managed and considered by engineers and construction team to avoid severe problems on
the work place.
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ii). Discuss about the different types of renewable energy or sustainable source that could be
used for project. clarify reason for choice.
Renewable energy is derived from natural process that continues replenished. It mainly
captured the energy from existing flow, ongoing process generated the energy. Construction of
building account for about energy consumed where implemented cooling and heating system. it
might be carefully applying on design principles that capture natural energy by using different
renewable energy (Rathore, Chauhan and Singh, 2019). It practices that save money, as result in
more alternative method for building construction. It also useful for improving environment and
strength the economy by minimizing requirements for fossil fuels. There are common renewable
energy sources that can be incorporated with building.
Solar: It is based on the energy that generated from sunlight which are directly converted into
electricity by using solar panels. Solar power is one of most common renewable energy sources
that become safe, clean, reliable and sustainable. This type of source is becoming easily install in
building to generate electric power. Solar energy is useful for sustainable development where it
can be reduced the amount of heat lost and also eliminating wastage. It automatically recovers
heat in high temperature areas like bathrooms and kitchens.
Wind: This type of energy is generated from the change of pressure, atmospheric temperature
which directly force movement of air. In this way, different wing turbine easily captured which
converted into electric power. The wind power is safer, reliable that will not contain the
greenhouse gases and emission at the time of electricity generations (Armin Razmjoo, Sumper
and Davarpanah, 2019). It is becoming a cost effective in terms of renewable energy with one
turbine easily generating enough electricity to commercial buildings, office and homes. This type
of wind energy will minimize risk related the pollution because it is most common thing that
affects on the environment condition. It always maintains overall temperature and improve
sustainable development.
Geothermal: It is mainly generated from heat and other type of hot rocks buried on earth
surface. It will use for producing the hot steam and water which converted into electricity. This
type of renewable energy resource has not produced greenhouse gas which are expected to play
important role for providing the electric power in building. In terms of sustainable building, it
always changing development ideas because of econ-friendly and sustainable nature. this type of
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renewable energy source useful for reducing carbon foot prints and continues utilizing energy in
proper manner.
Hydro: it is one of common renewable energy source for generating power through water
flowing which automatically converted into electric power by using turbine. This type of energy
is becoming clean, safe that has been widely used in past decade. It can be generated the
electricity in large quantities of year (Bishoge, Zhang and Mushi, 2019). Hydro electric energy
is considered the largest source which producing 6.3 percentage of the country’s total electricity.
It is the most reliable and suitable for increasing opportunities which expand the sustainable
development. In construction, it can be utilizing materials and manufacturing to improve
performance while reduce the cost of lifecycle.
These are different type of renewable energy sources which always useful for generating a
large amount of electricity with minimum wastage and Co2 emission. These are needed as they
clean energy source and have controlled environmental impacts through other substances. As an
energy, it will remain forever so can use by other people. On the other hand, it also beneficial in
terms of opportunities for increasing employment rate and also running the economy in global
marketplace.
It is justified that Building is becoming highly energy efficient which mainly uses 56%
less energy than other type of convention building. It has been designed in such as way that
automatically intake natural based light and there is not requirement of other external lights.
Solar energy is one of most common renewable sources for generating electric power that must
be used within construction building which covered 24KW capacity. It has to be generated 120
power / day so as it will reduce cost or price of electricity by using solar panel (Manesh and
Rialp-Criado, 2019). This type of energy contained the large area where providing better quality
of services for maintaining level of electricity within building. In terms of renewable energy that
stands among different countries, installed 10% total power generation capacity which
contributed towards electricity. In this way, it helps for improve the life style of people where 5
million people have taken advantage and benefits through renewable energy. In future, solar
renewable energy source represents the significant share for generating capacity which deployed
in upcoming year. It also emerging
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Supply Chain Management and Procurement of Material Resources
To complete the project of city centre building there are different type of management
operation are need to be managed by the construction team to avoid time delays and
constructional issues in the building construction process. This is important for the construction
engineer and construction team to keep manage the supply chain and Procurement of material
resources to keep construction running without and operational failure.
Supply Chain for Construction Site
Supply chain is one of the most important part of the construction industry. For the
continuity in the construction process. Th main purpose of supply chain is to effectively maintain
the supply of the raw material and basic facilities to keep the operation process effective and
highly efficient. There is a specific process and planning is used. The supply chain management
can be explained with some basic steps that are used by the business organization in construction
process. The main steps of supply chan=in management are Planning, developing, Making,
deliver, return. These all steps works in a particular cycle. That is effective to met the supply
chain demands of the organization.
Plan
The supply chain management is a process which is used by the organization to manage
the supply of material which is required for continuous operations on the construction site. This
step of supply chain management is known as planning. In the planning stage a proper process
and plan is prepared by organization to maintain the continuous supply of the construction
material. On the basis of construction requirements an outline of supply chain is prepared in
order to manage the supply in proper order.
Develop
After preparing planning of supply chain this is important for organization to make and
develop effective relation with the suppliers to maintain the operations as per the supply chain
planning. In this part organization can look for particular suppliers to manage the availability of
resources
Make
Deliver
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Return
CONCLUSION
In above discussion, it concluded that environmentally sustainable building mainly refers to
the structure that can be used construction process and occupancy which are responsible for
managing a necessary resource. It is an efficient throughout building life cycle from different
location to design, renovation, maintenance and operation. In this report, it has summarised
about the potential environmental, economic and cultural issues which might be significantly
reduce costs and also delay overall project of construction. It has summarised different types of
renewable energy that can be used to apply within project and also justified the reason for
choosing suitable renewable energy source. Furthermore, it is evaluating the usage of supply
chain management and its procurement material resources that help for managing overall project
effectively. It has determined the principles related health and safety factors which required to be
considered for improving production steps and also understand risk that associated with multiple
task. It also analysed about active or passive system for implementing the different step of design
by using technique or tool. It also identifies that how it can impact on overall environment.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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