The level 3 full time learners at college have an end of course assessment to plan and design a building that can be used as a place for overseas visiting lecturers to live.
This project has the working title of 'The Principals Residence'.
The level 3 learners need your help in order to understand how environmental factors will have and effect on their planning and design work.
For your information, the brief that the level 3 learners have been given is:
Scenario
The College management team expanding the college courses for international lecturers and students. These lecturers will be visiting the college throughout the year and will need somewhere to live during the course of their visit.
The college management team has therefore decided to create a building called the ‘Principals residence’ on the existing grounds.
The building is to provide a home to between 6 and 10 lecturers and must contain all of the facilities that a visitor would expect including cooking, washing and ablution facilities, living spaces and sleeping areas.
The facility must be sustainable and buildable.
The building is to be no more than three storeys high, and must not have a basement.
The building does not require a garden.
No parking facilities are required.
The budget and timescale for the project has not yet been decided.
To help the level 3 learners you are to produce a 'Beginners Guide to Environmental Factors' booklet.
The booklet will have one topic per page:
The following topics must be included:
- Model examples of the best use of sustainable materials
- How the choice of construction form (framed, traditional, prefabricated) affect the design process
- What are 'renewable resources' and why they should be specified in this building
- Interesting examples of ways to use recycled materials
- How contractors dispose of waste in safe and efficient way
- The potential impact of the building on the environment
The best submissions will clearly link to 'time', 'cost', 'quality', and 'health and safety' at every possible opportunity.
Photographs that are used should be original or clearly referenced.
Diagrams must be original.
You will only be able to upload one document.
Three other HNC students (selected at random) will review and feedback on your work.
You must complete two topics per session in order to stay on target to complete.
