ENGIEERING

Sustainable Building Concept And Civil Engineering

Sustainable Building Concept And Civil Engineering

Introduction

The sustainability is an important concept and its importance has been increased in today's society. This concept is more important when we talk about the development and the civil engineering concepts. The sustainability is very crucial in civil engineering because of many factors. The societies and human needs are increasing, new technologies are emerging, the patterns of the societies are increasing etc. These all have significant impact upon the civil engineering concepts. The sustainable building concept is important for civil engineering because the concept of sustainability allows the engineers to adopt the strategies and concepts that can enable them to develop the strong and sustainable buildings that can exist for many years. As the human development increases, the importance of the sustainable buildings also increases. The buildings are not meant to be replaced frequently therefore the buildings are required to be developed in a manner that can ensure the sustainability of the building. The sustainable building concept is important for civil engineering because the sustainable development is meant to develop the criteria that further ensure in great manner the achievements of the future objectives of the human societies. The sustainable building concepts give mo room for the compromising upon the fulfillment of the needs and requirements of the humans. The sustainable building concepts also ensures the maintenance of critical needs of the engineering concepts and helps the engineers to avoid the threats that may occur even after the hundreds of years. The history has shown that how the engineering concepts were used in making of very famous buildings and that still exist today after thousands of years. For instance the pyramids in Egypt are the examples of the sustainable building concepts of engineering. The following section aims at discussing the background of the sustainable building concepts and the concepts that are emerged from various empirical studies.

Discussion

Background

The destruction of some of the historical buildings has emerged the concept of sustainability in the civil engineering. This has led that the profession of engineering must involve the enhanced and improved strategic actions that can ensure the delivering sustainable development in the civil engineering. The climates and weathers also have great impact upon the delivering of sustainable building development concepts. The civil engineers require that development of strategies that can assist them in developing the building that can allow the building to sustain for the long period of time and can remain to provide the benefits to the increasing human societies. For this reason the Boyle and Donnelly (2003, p.149) have emphasized that the engineering profession must clearly define the issues relating to the innovation and the sustainable solutions. The sustainable solutions also allow the engineers to keep in view the changes that may occur in the future time periods. The responsibility lies upon the engineers to understand the concepts of engineering and they have the responsibility to develop the plans and strategies by making the changes in the existing building development plans and strategies ...