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ASSIGNMENT 02
AUGUST 2022 SESSION

ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY

(ENV4113)

NAME : Aleesya Nadhirah Binti Nor Azly

MATRIC / STUDENT NO : DAT22086026
DATE : 29/11/2022
LECTURER : Miss Shanti

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 MAHSA University

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Assignment brief

Program : Diploma in Architectural Technology

Module Name : Environment and Sustainability
Code : ENV4113
Assignment : Individual assignment

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Final submission:
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Marking
This assignment has only 20% marks of your total mark.

Assignment description

Project Report (30 marks)

(CLO2:PLO3:C2); (CLO3: PLO6:A2)

Overview

The Malaysian Government provides for the lower income group with low cost housing
that includes adequate playground area, community hall, landscaping and car parking;
with accessible public schools, shops, public transport, medical centers and other
commercial outlets. With these provisions, there are also frequent complaints from
residents regarding the quality of these low-cost home in terms of the building materials
used the quality of construction, the sanitary system, the facilities provided, the location,
the maintenance along with many social problems.

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1. TASKS: “LOW-COST HOUSING ENVIRONMENT – observes the needs”

Based on the overview above; there a positive and negative impacts of building
performance related to its internal and external environment and human well-being. In
attitudes of encouraging a great awareness and sensitivity to environment sustainability,
you are required to conduct “a low-cost housing environment in Klang Valley”
observation report based on the following areas:

i) Identify Low-cost housing location and environment conditions.

(25 Marks)

1.0 Location : Taman Permata, Dengkil

Figure 1.1 Map location of Taman Permata, Dengkil

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1.1 Background of Taman Permata

Figure 1.1.1 Taman Permata flat

This residence is a five-story low-cost apartment building constructed on leasehold

property. This home was constructed for the residents of these estates who were
promised terrace homes for each of their up to 400 families. They were asked to
temporarily relocate to this apartment while the houses were being built. Former estate
workers who were relocated to the five-storey flats in Taman Permata Dengkil, Sepang
11 years ago to make way for the development of Putrajaya are upset that nothing has
been done to resolve their woes despite numerous complaints. Among their grouses are
cracked walls, clogged drains and broken sewage pipes which they claim had affected
the soil settlement of the five blocks of four-storey walk-up flats.

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 Figure 1.1.2 Watery floors of the parking bay of Taman Permata flat

Figure 1.1.3 Communal clothes drying area

Three-room, two-bathroom single-storey terrace homes of 750 square feet are expected
to be delivered to residents. More than 20 years ago, to create room for the building of
Putrajaya, the families were forced to leave their estate homes. Then they were moved to
the Taman Permata apartments. However, a sinkhole was discovered in Block 5, which
was home to about 100 people, in June 2013. While the building damage was being
evaluated, the council subsequently put the affected residents' tents in the parking lot as
a temporary shelter. Finally, a solution was presented to the locals, with the state
government donating property and the federal government offering to construct homes
for the families.

1.2 Environment Condition

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The children in Taman Permata neighbourhood require a better environment and
extensive understanding of their potential futures because the children who reside there
don't feel content. Adult men are dependent on women for their income because they
lack jobs.

Figure 1.2.1 The children in Taman Permata neighbourhood

Figure 1.2.2 The children in Taman Permata neighbourhood

ii) Explain building and infrastructure conditions.

(25 Marks)

2.0 Building and Infrastructure condition

Infrastructure refers to a multitude of systems and structures that need physical

components, such as the electrical grid that runs throughout a city, state, or nation.
Infrastructure not only enables residents to engage in the social and economic society
and provides them with basics like food and water, but also facilities, equipment, or
equivalent physical assets like bridges and highways.

2.1 Façade

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Figure 2.1.1 Right side façade of Taman Permata
flat

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 Figure 2.1.2 Front view façade of Taman Permata flat

The building's appearance doesn't seem enlightening, and the odour is off-putting.
Additionally, there was a lot of trash scattered throughout the premises.

2.2 Unit

There are a lot of cracks in the walls found in the house.

Figure 2.2.1 Cracks in the wall Figure 2.2.2 Cracks on the ceiling

The size of the unit is enough to fit a family of 4, it has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms per
unit. But the ventilation of the unit is not that good for the unit that is in the middle.

Figure 2.2.3 The interior of one flat unit Figure 2.2.4 The storage room of one flat
unit

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2.3 Stairs

Figure 2.3.1 Cracks on the staircase

Figure 2.3.2 Flight of stairs not aligned

The stairs' poor condition makes one misstep on them potentially very harmful. The
steps are not only slippery, but they are also dirty.

2.4 Piping

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 Figure 2.4.1 Leakage outside the flat

Figure 2.4.2 Poor plumbing system

Leaks are caused by the poorly structured plumbing system. Due to the water gushing
from the pipes, the parking lot is soaked.

Faulty alignment issues caused by contraction or expansion in a poor design can result in
an enormous equipment loss. Equipment failures lead to fires, shutdowns and monetary
loss. This is why an exceptional design and review are mandatory to pinpoint potential
problems and pitfalls. Adjustable routing is the first and by far the pocket-friendly and
safest method for administering expansion in piping systems. Perfect temperature and
weather/climate affect the performance of piping systems. A piping system carrying
utterly hot fluids/gases in very cold climates confronts the risk of bursts/fractures and
vice versa. Piping design therefore must recognize applicable thermal insulation to
protect against outside weather and moisture intervention.

iii) Discuss the human activities in the built environment. (25 Marks)

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3.0 Human activities in the built-environment

The creation of a built environment serves the needs of the populace. In terms of safety,
respect, and self-expression, human needs can be social or physiological. People want
their built environment to be visually appealing, to be in a convenient location with a
well-developed infrastructure, easy communication access, and good roads, and the
home should also be reasonably affordable, comfortable, with low maintenance costs,
and have sound and thermal insulation in the walls. Having enough options for
shopping, relaxing, travelling quickly to work or other locations, and fostering positive
relationships with neighbours are all things that people are interested in. They are also
interested in living in environmentally friendly and nearly noiseless environments.

It must be acknowledged that the most severe issues with built environments (such as
robberies, unemployment, and graffiti) are not always related to the direct physical
structure of the housing. Such issues can be resolved by increasing investment in the
provision of social and recreational facilities, such as sports clubs, fitness facilities, and
family entertainment centres, as well as in infrastructure, a pleasant neighbourhood, and
youth education. Legal issues are involved when a property is purchased, sold, or
registered. A nation's legal framework aspires to represent the needs of the market
economy as well as the social, economic, political, and technical conditions that are now
in place. As shown, a variety of quantitative and qualitative criteria can be used to
evaluate the built environment's life cycle.

3.1 Children playground

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 Figure 3.1.1 The playground area of Taman Permata

Figure 3.1.2 A lizard found in overgrown

grass

A watched lizard can be seen sauntering around the playground, which has already been
ruined and is covered in overgrown grass.

3.2 Kitchen

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 Figure 3.2.1 The kitchen of one flat unit

Figure 3.2.2 The kitchen of one flat

unit

The pipe system is poorly managed, the kitchen is undersized, and some residents throw
their trash out the window.

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Figure 3.2.3 Storage area in the kitchen Figure 3.2.4 Cooking place in the kitchen

3.3 Corridor

Figure 3.3.1 The corridor of Taman

Permata flat

The resident, who lacks a balcony to dry their clothes, spread their laundry out in the
hallway to dry. It is highly risky because someone may easily steal their clothes.

iv) Discuss the contribution of professional in contributing to the future

sustainability to support human well-being. (25 Marks)

4.0 Contribution of professional

The responsibility of a sustainability professional inside an organisation might vary. For

some firms, their objective is to provide the impression that the organisation is more
concerned with environmental protection than it is. There are genuine attempts to
include social justice, equity, or corporate social responsibility in a very broad definition
of "sustainable," which causes the definition of sustainability to vary.

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I hope that as this profession develops, various presumptions and professional principles
will follow. Assuming that both economic and human progress will continue and not
come to an end should be the general strategy. The rise of services, ideas, art,
entertainment, and human contact will all continue to experience economic growth while
population growth and the consumption of non-renewable resources will slow. To limit
our unavoidable negative impact on the environment, it is the mission of the
sustainability profession to ensure that while humans engage in their activities, we make
every effort to do so. As much as we can, we want to reduce it, and when we do make
mistakes, we want to do everything we can to help the environment recover. The
rigorous application of science and reality is a core value of the profession.

Last but not least, I hope the industry adopts a pro bono tradition akin to that of lawyers
where we offer our services for free to people and organisations that lack the financial
means to pay for them. Some organisations won't have the funds available to devote to
the capital or analytical needs of sustainability. The profession needs to be careful not to
overlook these people or groups.

In terms of organisational administration, a new era has just begun. It is a shift that is
comparable in magnitude to mass manufacturing, generally accepted accounting
principles, computerised performance indicators that are updated in real-time, and the
birth of the global economy. The first sustainably managed organisation is emerging. A
new group of sustainability professionals will serve as its leaders.

4.1 Environmental PR (Public Relations)

In order to communicate with the media on behalf of clients, PR requires having a

thorough awareness of how the media operates. This can need a lot of ingenuity, but if
you focus on environmental PR, you will also enjoy the satisfaction of improving the
environment in which you live. You will be able to educate the public through media
outlets, as well as local companies when you engage in environmental PR. You might
need to make sure that everyone in your society is aware of environmental laws and how
important they are.

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 Figure 4.1.1 Environmental PR

4.2 Water Recourse Engineer

There are lots of serious scientists that are predicting wars over water in the near future.
This makes sense – humans have always fought over resources that become limited and,
as the population grows and climate change makes clean water more of a rarity, of
course, water will be one of those resources. If this is a future that terrifies you, you
should become a water resource engineer. These engineers function similarly to other
environmental engineers but with a focus on water. The water in question can be water
sourced either above or below ground, and water resource engineers will manage and
assess the quality and quantity of water in these instances. This could be via modelling
or simulating how the water naturally flows, or it could also be by coming up with ways
to divert natural water flows to regions that need it.

Currently, water resource engineers are widely spread throughout disaster zones where
they work to lessen the effects of natural catastrophes like hurricanes and floods.
However, a water resource engineer's typical tasks could include developing plans,
reviewing significant construction work, designing flow systems, and more.

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 Figure
4.2.1 Water Resource Engineer

2. References
Please include the references from 2018 to 2022 for any information related to the
project case studies.

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