CA19504 Assignment Part 1 “Energy conservation has been a major concern in the recent decades. There are critiques that buildings.in Hong Kong has been too much relying on use of air conditioning to maintain a pleasant indoor environment. Since air conditioning systems consume a lot of power supply, consequently most of the buildings are not regarded as environmental friendly.” Evaluate the above statements. From the perspective of an architect, discuss how a residential building may be designed to reduce energy consumptions. Student name: Lee Tsun Ming Student number: 54806965 Name of Lecturer: KK Chan In the recent decades, the issue of global warming triggers a heated debate. Global warming refer the phenomenon that …show more content…
This can alleviate heat island effect and make the urban landscape more pleasant. Also they install the hybrid chiller system to improve the air quality. It highly concern about the reduction energy consumptions. On the other hand, lighting is another main factory that controlling the Building Energy Efficiency. According to the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department (EMSD), the electricity consumed by lighting in residential sector in Hong Kong usually account for 24% of the total consumption respectively. It is the second highest electricity consumer following air-conditioning. Therefore, the use of energy-efficient lighting system is important in order to reduce resource wastage and enhance the effectiveness of energy use. In our daily life, we might less energy consumption light equipment, such as Light Emitting Diode (LED), Occupancy sensor, Scotopic lighting, Tri-phosphors tube, etc. But From the perspective of an architect, we should not only depend on the equipment, we could start from the nature design of the building. For example: using tinted large window for the resident to enjoy the nature of sunlight and save the energy for lighting in a sunny …show more content…
The amount of light required is control by the size of the holes or windows. But in case of Hong Kong, architect should concern the direction of the declination of sun as Chinese much care about the angle of sun. To conclude, energy consumption should be reduce due to the global warming. The Paris Agreement aims to holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. From the perspective of an architect, we could also follow this trend. Below is a sustainable design demonstration extract from secondary school book. Architecture and Nature interact with each other, there are no conflicts. Architect could appreciating the elements in nature and make use of the nature element in order to reduce the energy consumption. Good urban planning and sustainable design for the building regarded as environmental
SAFE ASSIGNMENT ON MOVIE: AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH 1. Do you agree that human activity is creating greenhouse gases? Briefly discuss at least ten arguments made in the movie that human induced climate change is happening? Yes, I agree that human activities are creating green house gases.
In Robert Bryce’s article “The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence” he explains the depths of America’s delusional perception of energy independence and asserts his evident disapproval of the subject. He begins by mentioning past presidents and their verbal concerns of an upcoming energy crisis leading into the similar views held by America’s majority. The fact that energy independence will make America self-sufficient, create new jobs, keep U.S. soldiers out of the Persian Gulf, and result in a thriving economy has become a generally accepted attitude. Bryce claims that this attitude has escalated since the attacks of September 11th due to the numerous news stories proposing that “buying oil from the countries of the Persian Gulf
Using terms and citing examples from the textbook in your essay, how does environment contribute to the design? Architecture can essentially be seen all around us, from the houses that we inhabit, to the bridges that we drive over, to much greater lands acquiring all of the early 1800’s cathedrals and 21st century sky scrapers. Often we just perceive what we can physically see for the moment without putting much thought into all of the planning and calculating that goes into properly constructing such architectural buildings. Architecture can be both a science and an art; however, it must first be a science to become an art, and then ultimately, both. To begin with, proper planning and calculations must first be made in order to determine if whether or not an architectural structure will be able to prove durable on the ground which it is made and at the location which it will stand.
Another discovery explains how energy consumption levels are not consistent throughout the entire daylight saving period. Evidence reveals the need for energy is high in the spring transition, but the highest increase is in the fall. Consumption increase ranges from two to four percent, in the fall. An increasing demand for heating and cooling and decreasing demand for lighting are tradeoffs persistent with the new discovery (Source F).
3 MATERIALS AND METHODOLOGY 3.0 INTRODUCTION Energy analysis of buildings helps to simulate the amount of energy used in a building. It is very important as it helps to discover and ascertain new ways of conserving energy and ensuring energy efficiency of building components. Building developers, construction engineers are increasingly interested in creating more energy efficient reason, and for this purpose whole building energy simulation programs are being used to determine strategies that save energy and are cost effective. The most common way available to perform this building energy analysis is to implement building information modelling(BIM). Building Information Modelling(BIM) consists of a digital representation of physical and functional
New designs have been adopted since the onset of architecture, and thus, with the concentration of a history of architecture, new phenomenon and innovations are realized that would help in further explanation and address of other necessities in the same sector. A concentration in the History of architecture and landscape architecture as a course incorporates more than one element of
“Biophilic design is the deliberate attempt to translate an understanding of biophilia into the design of the built environment” (Kellert, 2008). It involves building and landscape design that enhance human well-being by fostering positive connections between people and natural environment. It is an innovative design approach that aims to maintain, enhance and restore the benefits of experiencing nature in the built environment. It starts by observing the effect of the mutual interaction between the natural and the built environment. The learned knowledge is then reflected onto the design and construction of the built environment.
In the article, “Forget Shorter Showers” by Derrick Jensen, the author shows the reader how they are not truly saving the earth by showering less, producing less waste or by limiting use of power. In fact, Jensen is placing the blame more toward a political based problem and more on the elites of the world who tend to blame the individuals. Jensen’s article tends to lean more toward the anti-capitalistic view of capitalism causing the earth to crumble due to the government and the elites of the world. These facts are proven by Jensen’s research into the actual use of energy consumption showing that individuals tend to use only a fourth of it, leaving the rest to be wasted away by the big corporations. Jensen also furthers his argument by showing the amount of waste used by citizens.
Global warming is a big problem that we have to face nowadays. If you search Google for the word “global warming’, you will get over 70 million pages of results. The subject has certainly drawn a lot of attention. And now I will talk more about “what is global warming” , the cause and the effects it has on the earth and also some possible solutions for this problem.
Homero Castro Ms. Cabaj English IV, 3rd period 12 February 2018 Global Warming Global Warming is affecting the entire world. The issue of global warming is important because it’s affecting everyone.
Statement of Problem I. What are the causes of global warming? II. How is it affecting our environment? III. How can we minimize the activities responsible for global warming?
One of the crucial advantages of energy efficient construction is
Instead of burning fossil fuels that will be depleted within short generation, alternative energies such as the wind turbine or solar panels needs to be implemented to sustain and care for the resources that remain. The concept of reducing our Carbon footprint in the world is the more modern way of looking at sustainable living, in which the World realises humans have not used resources wisely. By looking at the changes over the past centuries, an International network of scientists have unanimously concluded that human society is altering natural functions in three fundamental ways. And consequently, they were able to define four basic conditions that must be met if we want to maintain the environmental services that sustain human society.
Eco friendly building material is those provide the appropriate service and lifetime, with the minimal maintenance, while minimizing the decimation the raw of material, the pollution from, and also energy consumption by production and use, and that have the maximum potential for the reuse. The use of the Eco friendly building materials and products are represents one important strategy in the design of a building. In addition, the Eco friendly building materials have benefits to the building users such as improved health and the productivity, in order to change the spatial configurations of the lower costs associated, reduced maintenance costs over the life of the building and so forth.
What is global warming? Global warming is defined as “ an increase in the earth 's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate, and that may result from the greenhouse effect" (“Global warming”). Natural events and human that causes global warming are believed to be factors to increase in average temperatures. This essay looks into the growing problem of global warming and suggests reasonable solutions to it. It also evaluates the effectiveness of these solutions.