Sustainability and Risk Engineering Project: 10 ha Urban Land Analysis

This civil engineering project undertakes a sustainability and risk analysis of a 10-hectare urban land in Kingaroy town, Queensland, Australia. The project begins with an introduction to the concept of sustainable engineering and the increasing importance of resource management. The study area is characterized, including its climate, coordinates, and existing residential and commercial properties. The project then explores the application of BESIX standards for residential building design and the construction of a green building to minimize environmental impact and ensure resource efficiency. The embodied energy of the chosen residential structures is evaluated, with a focus on material selection and architectural techniques. The GaBi software is employed to measure the embodied energy, considering factors like material types, transportation energy, and upstream energy. The project also addresses operational energy requirements, energy consumption in commercial buildings, and the total energy needed to sustain the urban center over the next 50 years. Runoff estimation using MUSIC and the implementation of WSUD technologies are also considered, alongside a water balance development for the urban region. The conclusion and recommendations emphasize the importance of sustainable practices in civil engineering.

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Introduction
Engineering practice in future is greatly based on the present engineering application of
resources to help attain the sustainability necessities in future. With the intensification and
transformation of the world there is higher rate of global annual resource depletion. This is an
suggestion that there shall be higher future engineering threats. Some sectors of science are
adopting sustainability concept to aid in managing the usage of the present engineering resources
through the use of effective and innovative engineering processes, models and edifices which
will ensures there is efficient use of diminishing type of resources to acquire future sustainability
necessities.
For this project, a piece of land measuring 10 ha will be employed for the engineering
risks and sustainability analysis through developing a feasible edifice having less usage of assets
in concern of the engineering future threats. This research study takes a larger opinions of the
setting of the situations connected to other engineering development parameters. For example, a
building of green development is protagonist engineering project which is in sustainable
development. Moreover, the sustainability is related to economic and social issues and thus, for
this project will make sure it involves the issues in the acknowledgement sections of
advancement and outline in depth scrutiny for the all parameters related to the land chosen
environments.
The area selected (10 ha Urban Land)
Location
Kindgaroy town is the area selected for analysis, this town is situated in the inner city center in
Queensland, Australia. From the map given, the measurement of the dimension of this location

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is a premeditated site constructed to connect the 2 key highways in South Burnett called D
´Aguillar highway and the South Burnett.
Climate
The larger part of Quensland´s climate is grouped in 8 climatic zones where this location is
found in the first zone (zone 1) which has a warmer winter and a higher humid winter.
Nevertheless, the climate of this area fluctuates and in some seasons the town experiences humid
summer having warmer temperature to 300 C and a mild winter season.
Four corner Coordinates
The chosen map coordinate of the 151.840518; -26.532656, -26.532364, 151.844353,-
26.534614, 151.844325 and -26.534714, 151.840859. (These information were obtained for the
year 2019)
Terrain layout
The image given above illustrates a flat catchment area having an increased residential number
and commercial property.
Commercial properties and Number of Residential
The surrounding land has a different architectural structure and therefore a feasible investment
location. In this land there is a total of 30 residential building and eight commercial buildings
which gives a total of 38 buildings in this land. The picture illustrating a close development
view of the land as well as the nearby commercial building and residential building.
BESIX Standards; Typical design of a residential building.

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The concern of design structure in this state (New South Wales) resulted in the necessity
for the standards setting of an archetypal stuff to aid in regulation of the energy use in the
construction of the present buildings. All the projects for construction need to follow the rules
and regulations of BASIX policy, these are offers tools employed to assess and rate the
presentation of the residential building. The assessment and the ratting evaluates the total energy
used. The building´s thermal comfort in accordance with the weather changes as well as the
weather efficiency. Thus the advancement in the land for analysis was initially done to
scrutinize on the basis of how the BASIX Policies can be met. Of all the 30 residential buildings
which are nearby the chosen location, less than 3 of the buildings fulfilled the residential
building standards which are clearly outlined in the BESIX policy.
It is worth to note that the main aim of the BASIX is to make sure that there is effective
use of resources in a building as well as the residential properties for construction. The main
resource to check is the particular significance outlined in the BESIX policy of the location of
New South Wales where general environment and waters safety are key aspects. This policy
makes sure that there is minimized water effluent and the production of the harmful gases by
about 40%. Subsequently, an archetypal residential building as correlates to these research were
needed to help meet the aforementioned construction standards. This project involves the
building of a green building through the application of efficient resources provided which
includes energy, materials and water.
The general advancement necessity was to make sure that impact of the nearby
ecosystem is low, especially the impact on the human health and environmental degradation. To
ensure sustainability, the use of natural resources is key and the safety measures in the land use
takes into the account the impact on the outcome of the natural resources; those which diminish

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on their consequently and usefulness impact on the sustainability of the ecosystem and the health
of the human who reside in the area. The factors which were taken into consideration in this
analysis were considered a wholesome aspect known as the design/ construction, perfect setting
of the structures, operation, removal of the resources to make sure that project meets the
demands of sustainability and maintenance.
Construction of green building
Green house construction is a perfect way of ensuring there is a sustainability through
effective application of the future resource benefits/ profits. This concept of the construction of
green building can be defined in so several ways. Nevertheless, in this research the prospective
of the green building includes the residential structure construction by making sure that there is a
very small effects developed on health of human living around and also the whole environment.
Basically, this construction of green structures should be able to guarantee the effective us of the
resources as well as safeguarding selected environmental surrounding.
Environmental surrounding caring involves safeguarding and maintaining the health of
the residents of the Kingaroy town and also largely sustaining the use of the natural resources in
this town. These overall productivity of this project includes workers´ efficiency improvement
which reacts to ensure that there is maximum use of the natural resources and reduce the wastage
in the town. These consideration highly include the general measures to ensure that the
environmental degradation is highly reduced and the emission of greenhouse gases are also
highly reduced. The process of designing of the building in this land hence considers the
methods which are employed to achieve the above intensions. It involves the residential building
architectural design that meets all the environmental necessities outlined in the policy (BESIX)
and as assumed by the town´s local authority.

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In this, the prescription of the project report given below involves 3 D visualization as
well as residential buildings´ plan which was set on a 10 ha land. This 3D illustrates material
used for construction to be timber. This materials was suitable for construction due to it
availability, timber is most accessible material in this town. In the design of these building, the
roof was made to be a flat slab. This roof design type helps in reduction of the heat loss during
winter and also reduces the heat absorbed during summer seasons. At a times this town can
witness a risky weather condition where it can be very cold or very hot. With the continued
natural resource degradation the climate adversity is probably worsen therefore for the future
usage, a flat slab will guarantee cozy the usage of the structures in the building for some times to
come. The constructed structure will include the identified future risks having a variations in
environmental conditions. 3 D visualization also gives a sufficient lightening system that save a
lot energy used.
The internal structure formation of the residential building have a grounded floor having
a balcony, kitchen, dining room as well as a garage having variable measurement which gives
comfortable living room. The forts room illustrates the three bedroom having spacious passages.
The building usage was presumed to be reliant on some variable reason having longevity in
suitability and immediate beneficial use having a reduced risk.
Embodied Energy
The chosen residential structures´ embodied energy which involve natural resources
processes, product delivery and transportation, resources manufacturing and mining operations.
All the structures constructed procedures were approximated to consume vital energy expect the
approach of the life cycle that involves the disposal and material collection in the exercise
construction. The whole consumed embodied energy involve life cycle factors approach.

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Presuming, the total residential and commercial building structure chosen for this analysis was
10 ha that involves the arrangement of the aforementioned processes. This combination is
complicated and also fluctuates with reasons which includes the combination as well as the
building design which is a long life durability. These reasons includes the combination as well
as materials employed in the construction.
The construction in this town is identified with 10 ha where some activities need to be
performed to ensure that the land is usable and these involves the maintenance and the
renovation which makes sure that the town achieves the needed embodied energy of a typical
commercial and residential structure. Thus the material and the architectural techniques used
were keenly chosen to make sure that these maintains the mean embodied energy needed of the
building structure. It worth noted that the selection was highly suitable as different construction
materials involves since several materials for construction have several measurement of
embodied energy.
GaBi Application for the embodied energy measurement
The use of GaBi method gives an approximate residential building´s embodied energy. The
methods takes into consideration of the following parameters;
a. Material types for construction. This parameter involves all materials employed in the
building construction of the shell of the building as well as the completion of the building
section like bathroom accessories kitchen fittings and also building pavement.
b. Energy for the transportation materials and workers.
c. Upstream energy
d. Road network, drain, supply system energy and water.

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The total GER embodied energy involves the addition of the above detail of the GaBi software.
The energy requirement process involves all approximates of the embodied energy. Process
Energy requirement involves the total energy that was employed in the movement and
transportation of the materials used for construction. The factor for the approximated embodied
energy was 1. This factor resulted in figure quotations as outlined in the in this project which was
not hundred per cent accurate. The employed approximates in this project which were keenly
resulting from the consideration of the variations of figures for particular assemblies and
materials.