Week 9 : Safety and Health Act (CDM)

On this week module, I have learnt about the Construction Design and Management (CDM) regulations in United Kingdom, which similar to Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) the health and safety regulation in Malaysia.

The aim of Construction Design and Management (CDM)  is to improving the overall management and co-ordination of health, safety and welfare throughout all stages of a construction project to reduce the large number of serious and fatal accidents and cases of ill health which happen every year in the construction industry.

No matter in which country, there sure have their own health and safety regulation,their aim normally will not have much different, which is to provide a welfare for the employees. Therefore, these regulation must be strictly to be follow.

Week Eight : Property Evaluation and Economics

This is the part that most of the investors or developer most care, because by using Pay Back Period (PBP) we able to find out when we will reach the break even point which can be define as the period we recover our money spent on that development. Besides that, we also can use Average Annual Percentage Rate of Return (AA%RR) to calculate when are we going start to collect profit. Other than that, there are also many other methods like Net Present value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR)need to be calculate too.

Week Seven : Building Refurbishment

Before attending this class, I used to think the cost of demolition and rebuild the whole building will be much more higher than refurbish whole building. And in Sheffield, contractor and developer, they will choose to to  demolition and rebuild the whole building rather than refurbish the whole building, this is because redevelopment is take place to maximize the investment potential and profit, and there is some problem and risk need to be considered by choosing refurbishment.

1. The building can be different to the information on the original drawings.
2. Access can be difficult, particularly for large pieces of plant and equipment.
3. Contingent of unforeseen works.
4. Damage and mess
5. Interruption or disruption of core business
6. Health and safety to occupiers and the public.
7. Poor quality construction and use materials below modern standards.
8. Difficult to bring the building up to thermal and fire safety standards.

Week Six : Sustainable Development

On this week module we have learn about Sustainable Development, it is a development that meets the needs of the present needs, There are few important sectors which are vital for our development proposal.  Social, Economy, and Environment is the key factors to succeed in our development proposal in Matilda Street.

And I finally realize green building does not consider a part of sustainable, because green building is refers to a structure and using process that is environmental friendly.

Week Five : Market Analysis & Market Appraisal

On this week, we learn about marketing. Before we start to redevelop the site we have to ask our self:

What exactly is the product or service you hope to provide? 
Who do you expect to buy this service or product? 
How will you find them? 
How will you approach them? 
Are you sure that there are sufficient customers inside the area where you can work profitably? 
What is your competition and what can they “do” to you?

although it might not be accurate, but at least it was a rough figure, with these information, we able to decide whether the project is viable or not before we start the project .

Beside asking those question on the above, SWOT analysis or PESTLE analysis are been advised to be use to for in this assessment, by using either one of the analysis will help us easily found out is the project is viable or not to be start.

Week Four : Planning System

After attending the class, I finally realize  there is huge differential between the planning system in Malaysia and planning system in Sheffield, UK. In Malaysia, our land normally only will categorize into 3 different type of land which are residential land, industrial land and agricultural land. But in Sheffield, UK, all the land is classified by zone, which mean we cannot simply develop a building which not allow in the zone. Luckily,  our site is located at the flexible use are, which mean we will not facing any problem to build any type of building inside the zone except from general industry and warehouse and storage.

Proposal Map From Sheffeild City Council

 Policy H1 from Sheffield City Council

Week Three : Site Analysis or Investigation

On this week, we been given a lot of help from our lecturer and tutor, they show us a lot of guidance and detailed explanation regarding on the site location and analysis. This would help us to gain more information of the site, from those information we able to decide what type of business is suitable or needed on that area.

Besides that we been told to listed down all the potential constraints which possibly arise before starting the redevelopment. By doing this we may find a solution to solve it before it cause any delay on the project progress.

Week Two : Matilda Street Site Visit

MAP TO MATILDA STREET

On second week, we been told that we have to went to Matilda Street for a site visit for our assessment. The main purpose for us to site visit is to  to obtained the details of building and the location, thus to figure out the better idea of development of the Matilda Street site. Firstly, we have to measure the roughly area of the site by using laser measuring device and measuring tape.In the progressing, we found out the building is consist of some defects and the size of building is limited, therefore all these are the issues need to be taken into account to decide whether refurbish or demolish and rebuild of the whole building.

Front View

Back View

Week One : Introduction

In the fist week of the class, Mr. Dave Weatherall have roughly brief through about the module assessment we have to do for the Integrated Project. The assessment contain 2 part, Part A which include writing and Padlet Wall which contain 60% mark of the assessment and in Part B which is Goggle's Blog which contain 40% mark of the assessment.

Mr. Dave Weatherall also show us how the purpose and the way of using Padlet Wall and Goggle Blogger for our assessment.

PADLET WALL

This is an apps that I never hear before in Malaysia, I found out that this apps are quite similar to Microsoft Powerpoints which we usually use for presentation any thing in Malaysia. But compare to Microsoft Powerpoints, Padlet Wall are more easy and interested than Microsoft Powerpoints.It acts as a virtual wall which allow easily express our thoughts on the topic we work on. It allows us to insert any content in order to let works more easily to present out to other parties, such as images, videos, document, and etc.

Blogger

Although I have hear this apps for many years, but I do not have any experience on using this apps. Based on what I saw other people Blogger, I found out that they actually using this apps as their diary which usually shared their own though or their life experience. Which mean by using this apps I able to easily share out the knowledge, though or my experience for the assessment to my friends.