The aim is to motivate the student to integrate sustainable environmental management principles and practices into construction engineering applications, by which the environmental challenges associated with construction engineering applications can be turned into opportunities.
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
Introduction {What is an EIA; Impacts, Recourse factors and Alternatives; EIA Procedure; Contents of an EIA report}; Methods for impacts identification {Interaction-matrix methodologies, Network methodologies, Checklist methodologies}; Decision making tools for the analysis of alternatives {Development of decision-making matrices, Trade-off analysis and decision focused checklists, Extended Cost Benefit Analysis}
Sustainable environmental pollution control measures and techniques
Pollution prevention approaches (Legislative, regulatory and policy aspects; Standards; Economic tools, Monitoring and environmental auditing); Water quality management in surface water (Computation of organic loads on streams, Development of oxygen-sag model, Water reclamation and reuse).
State-of-the-art environmental management concepts and applications for the construction industry (4 h):
Integrated Environmental Management; Clean Technology (CT); Life Cycle Assessment (LCA); Sustainable Development.
Environmental Management in Construction (6 h)
Effective prevention at pre-construction stage, Effective control at construction stage, Effective reduction at post-construction stage
- Teacher: Dr. W.K.C.N. Dayanthi