green Buildings

KB7053 PG MCE Semester 2: SUMMATIVE WRITING ASSESSMENT

You have until 23.59 on Friday 10th December 2021 to complete this task.

SUMMATIVE WRITING TASK

Using the sources used in class (listed below), write a short essay of 350 words (5-6 paragraphs) in formal academic style on the following question:

What are the benefits and drawbacks of green buildings? Are green buildings the buildings of the future?

Instructions:

· Make sure to answer the question fully, not just describe the topic or paraphrase the texts (critical thinking).

· Support your discussion with evidence from the texts we read in class (use ONLY the sources provided, listed below, which are all on Blackboard).

· You will need to paraphrase and summarise relevant information from the texts using your own words, sentence structures, and text organization – include citations.

· Use one or two short direct quotations ( ‘quotation’ ), when appropriate, in your essay; give citations for these.

· Use Harvard-style citations and references (must include a reference list).

· Word process your essay in MS Word; use Calibri 12 font and single line space; block paragraphs; add page numbers bottom right.

SUBMIT YOUR WORK AS A SINGLE MS WORD DOCUMENT VIA TURNITIN (on Blackboard) BY 23.59 on Friday 10th December 2021 (no pdfs please)

IMPORTANT :

· PLEASE put your name on your work (1st page, top right)

· PLEASE save your work as an MS Word file (no pdfs) like this -

File name: your ALS class code, day and time of class, FAMILY NAME and ‘formative’, like this:

KB7053_ Monday_13_ SMITH_formative

Also use this as the name / title of your document uploading to Turnitin.

Please enter details into Turnitin clearly, so your work can be easily identified.

Thank you!

These are the sources used in class:

Allen, J.G., MacNaughton, P., Laurent, J.G.C. et al. (2015) ‘Green Buildings and Health’, Current Environmental Health Reports, 2, pp. 250–258.

B1M. (2018) When Trees Meet Buildings. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w7lsydq8ks (Accessed: 18/11/20).

Berardi, U. (2013) ‘Clarifying the new interpretations of the concept of sustainable building’, Sustainable Cities and Society, 8, pp. 72-78.

International Facility Management Association (2015) Green Building Rating Systems. Available at http :// cdn.ifma.org/sfcdn/membership-documents/green-rating-systems-htg-final.pdf (Accessed: 18/11/20).

Lu, Y., Wu, Z., Chang, R. and Li, Y. (2017) ‘Building Information Modeling (BIM) for green buildings: A critical review and future directions’, Automation in Construction, 83, pp. 134-148.

Roxburgh, H. (2017) ‘Inside Shanghai Tower: China's tallest skyscraper claims to be world's greenest.’ The Guardian. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/23/inside-shanghai-tower-china-tallest-building-green-skyscrapers#img-1 (Accessed: 10/1/18).

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Extra help - Skills Plus (NU library)

Help with essay planning and academic writing:

https :// library.northumbria.ac.uk/skillsplus/academicwriting

Cite them Right (referencing):

https://library.northumbria.ac.uk/skillsplus/referencing-plagiarism#table1

Skills Plus guide – referencing and plagiarism:

https://library.northumbria.ac.uk/skillsplus/referencing-plagiarism

KB7053 PG MCE - Semester 2: SUMMATIVE PRESENTATION TASK

Task

Prepare and deliver a 5-minute individual Powerpoint presentation on a topic of one of your Engineering and Environment assessments.

Instructions

· Think about the assessments you are doing for your other EE modules this semester

· Choose one of these assessments to present on (for example, a project you are doing)

· Prepare to explain it to the audience (your class) at a non-expert level

· Make a PPT to help your presentation. For your ppt, you must have a cover slide, an outline slide, and a references slide. The main body of the ppt should be no more than four slides

· The presentation must be no longer than five minutes long, but not considerably shorter than 5 mins

· You must not read out your presentation verbatim from a script or from your PPT

· Presentations must be your own original work and you must not repeat a presentation already given or read out an assignment

· Presentations will take place in Weeks 8 and 9 (order to be decided on the day – so be ready!)

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