Sustainability Report: Unos Property Development & Perth Skies

This business report provides recommendations to Unos Property Development on improving sustainable practices, particularly focusing on water and energy efficiency within their 'Perth Skies Development' project. The report emphasizes the importance of water treatment and recycling, integrated water system designs, and the use of water-efficient appliances to reduce water consumption. It also highlights the need for energy-efficient homes, suggesting the use of solar thermal and photovoltaic sources, passive solar design, and cost-effective solar combinations to minimize carbon emissions. The report concludes by recommending integrated mechanisms for water and energy efficiency, including water-saving infrastructures and optimized energy-saving technologies, to enhance the company's profile and promote sustainable living. Desklib offers a wealth of resources, including similar reports and solved assignments, to support students in their academic endeavors.

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A report on how to improve the sustainable practices for unos
property development company
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Executive summary
The aim of this report is to critically analyze and explain the keyway and areas of
concentration for our company in an effort to improve our companies profile to ensure provision
of affordable, energy-efficient housing that promotes sustainable living through a housing project
“Perth skies development” The report is based on information from a range of data sources,
including company reports, books and academic journals. The data sources are an explanation
how considering water and energy efficiency as main objectives in our company will help
rebuild the company profile and keeping pace with sustainable building for both commercial and
residential purpose.
Table of Contents
Executive summary.....................................................................................................................................2
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Findings and discussions..............................................................................................................................3
Water efficiency......................................................................................................................................3
Energy efficiency......................................................................................................................................5
Conclusions and recommendations.............................................................................................................6
References...................................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction
Unos property development is an established and already one of the successful property
developer companies in Perth. For the past 35 years, this company has been specializing in the
development of both commercial and residential properties. However, auditing conducted reports
that in its service provision, this company has not maintained the pace with developments
sustainable practices and building and this has negatively led to company’s profile falling down.
This, therefore, calls for an alarm on change of events as a way of improving the company
profile and regaining the company’s reputation as well. This saw the development of low rise,
high-density housing property by the name Perth skies development. The main ideas covered by
this project are how and what can be done to provide affordable, energy-efficient housing which
in long run promote sustainable living. Water and energy can be incorporated efficiently to help
rebuild this company’s profile.
Findings and discussions
Water efficiency
One of the factors that human beings consider when seeking housing is the issue of water
safety after water availability. Water may be available but the issue of water treatment may have
caused the Unos property development lose its reputation. Water treatment is a sustainable
practice that’s aimed at bringing user comfort and sustainable living through designing of the
green built environments. The main purpose of sustainability in green buildings is to mitigate the
negative impacts of buildings and the respective lifecycle on the natural environment. It is
essential to represent the substantial impact of green building evaluations as an inherent part of
future building policies for the creation of healthy living environments. (Rashidi, 2014).
Discharging of untreated water can be of high threat to the local environment and more so the
urban and rural regions where building constructions are majorly practiced. To promote

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sustainable living, it’s very important to water treatment and recycling be considered as a tool to
achieve this objective.
Moreover, it’s very important that our company improves water efficiency sustained
practices due to the current climatic conditions and drought experienced in the recent past years.
Water restrictions have been introduced into our cities which are the major targets for our
company investment sites. We, therefore, need to adopt an incorporated an integrated water
system designs that aim at reducing mains water consumption in our commercial and residential
buildings. This will greatly help us in keeping pace with sustainable buildings and promotion of
sustainable living for our customers. Some of the methods we can employ to achieve this is the
use of the integrated design water efficiency techniques in the course of property construction,
consideration of alternative lot scale water sources and greywater reuse. Connecting our new and
future properties to the main water supply points and drilling water boreholes for common shares
can help improve water availability.
Due to the drought conditions, we can consider harvesting all harvestable rainwater and
storing the surplus water inbuilt soak wells within our premises. Planting many trees around the
company’s property is also another way of conserving any traces of the harvested water. The
trees provide enough water shade and conducive gardening space for our customers. Lastly, on
the matter of water efficiency, we ought to consider water-efficient appliances and fixtures that
in our building and construction case can consist of 3-star selected shower heads and 4-star
kitchen and vanity basin tapware. (Byrne, et al., 2014) These mechanisms will help in 30 %
reduction of per person water consumption thus water efficiency will be achieved. This will help
to bring back a positive reputation and to improve the companies profile as well.

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Energy efficiency
A research conducted clearly shows that many countries have been trying to invest in
building and construction ideas that aim at reducing energy consumption and the impact carbon
emissions have on housing. This is a very important step too that can be taken by our company
as a way of promoting sustainable living. To ensure reconstruction of the spoiled companies
profile, it’s very important that the company considers what the customers are looking for.
Human beings want to live in zero energy homes and in zero carbon estates. The company can
concentrate on the construction of very high efficient homes in terms of energy, with various
sizes as well. One way to do this can be the use of solar thermal and solar photovoltaic sources to
achieve a zero energy home. With the use of the Perth skies development project where this zero
mechanism will be employed, our company will be generated and monitored for each house.
This will help in advising customers and fixing their homes with energy using appliances that
consume less to zero energy levels (Berry, 2014) Moreover, the company, during its building
designing, it should consider application of the passive solar design together with the use of the
reduction in the cost of solar combinations as a way of creating homes that have very little
expose and impact on the overall anthropogenic green gas emissions. (Zhou & Li, 2016)
Conclusions and recommendations
According to (Mc Gee, 2017)The best way to achieve water and energy efficiency at their
maximum is the use of integrated mechanisms and approaches when designing and use of water
and energy based technologies and systems. In terms of water efficiency, its very
recommendable that our company uses and install water-saving infrastructures and on the side of
energy efficiency, the best way to settle the company reputation is considering optimize energy
saving mechanisms and reduction of carbon gas effects on our houses. Our Perth skies

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development project should be aimed at constructing high-performance homes so as to rebuild
our companies profile. (Bo Qiu & Liu, 2017)
References

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Bo Qiu, X. f. & Liu, Y., 2017. ENERGY VISUALIZATION FOR SMART HOME. energy procedia, 105(1), p. 2545
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Byrne, J., Dallas, S. & Newman, P., 2014. OPTIMISING RESIDENTIAL WATER EFFICIENCY – THE JOSH’S
HOUSE PROJECT. water efficiency, 1(1), pp. 1-7.
Mc Gee, C., 2017. Energy. Your home, Volume 1, pp. 1-309.
Rashidi, H., 2014. a review on the Application of wastewater treatment in sustainable design of green
environments. 2(2), p. 1.
zhou, B. & Li, W., 2016. Smart home energy management systems: Concept, configurations, and
scheduling strategies. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 61(1), pp. 30-40.