...Understanding Green Building Construction in Singapore Abstract: Given the pressing environmental issues that is plaguing the world in the 21st century coupled with the global changing of the climate each day, Green Building Construction is starting to be more recognized among counties. Most countries around the world are looking more towards sustainable development in the long term. Such is the case of Singapore as it established various schemes and initiatives to address the environmental degradation problems that it is facing at the moment. In this paper, I will be elaborating the approach that has been undertaken by the Singapore Government in its efforts to developing Green and sustainable buildings in Singapore. From up to date, the initiatives were quite successful but there are still certain limitations which will be addressed at the later part. No doubt that Singapore has enjoyed some success in the area of Green Construction, it will still be imperative for Singapore to continuously improve itself and maintain its success should it want to keep its competitive advantage internationally in the long run. Key words: Green Building Construction, Climate change, sustainable development, environmental degradation, continuous improve Contents Page | | Abstract | 2 | 1.0 | Introduction | 4 | 2.0 | Research Methodology | 6 | 3.0 | Benefits of Green Construction | 6 | 4.0 | Singapore’s Commitment to Green Construction | 8 | 4.1 | Green Mark Scheme 2005...
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...clouds covered the sky, scraps of buildings flying and the terrifying screeching and crying of the crowd is how many remember September 11th, 2001. The city that was full of life, lights and people changed in an instant. September eleventh was a chaotic event that changed the views of not only our country, but the world as well. What seemed like a normal day in my life was actually a life changing event two thousand eight hundred miles away. I was in the fifth grade when terrorists crashed a plane into the twin towers. I lived in a decently small city in San Diego, California. I had never been to New York, but I always wanted to go. I got up and got dressed for school then walked to school. My teacher’s name was Mrs. Brady, and she was a cheerful and outgoing teacher, but on this morning she was unusually somber and seemed nervous. I remember her on the phone for the first few minutes of class. The principal spoke over the intercom “Students, we are releasing everyone early to go home.” I was happy. My father did not have work, so I went to his house. The news was on every channel and I just wanted to watch a “kid show” I kept telling my father. When my mother got off of work, my parents sat me down to talk. “Why don’t I have school today?” I asked. “The school felt it was best for everyone to be home because there has been an attack on the largest building in New York City.” They replied. “What do you mean?” not fully understanding them. “People from another country...
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...Approaches to learning In this process the students are asked to consider how they learn best, how they know and how do they communicate their understanding. Students are given tools to help them become actively involved in their learning. In addition approach to learning consists of the following (the responsibility of the teacher to assist with this): • Organizational skills and attitudes towards work • Collaborative skills • Communication • Information literacy • Reflection • Problem-solving and thinking skills • Subject-specific and interdisciplinary conceptual understanding. Community and service In this process students are asked to consider how they live in relation to others, how they contribute to the community, and how can I help others? This would require that students take part in the community they are apart of. The concentration is on building community awareness and the tools needed to create a more effective society. Human Ingenuity In this process students are asked to consider why and how do we create along with the consequences. Students are forced to reflect on their brunt on society. Students focus on the evolution, process and products of human creativity and their brunt on life and society. Opportunities are provided for students to increase in themselves the human ability to create, transform, enjoy, and improve the quality of life. Students assess the way individuals can began change for the good or bad along...
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...skills namely teambuilding, communication and delegation, the author learned via military leadership is applicable to the People’s Health Clinic (PHC). It has been manifested that there is more similarities than differences for the application of these three skills in any organization according to the experience of the author. In case of either military or PHC, it is has proved that building a team with personal difference as well as complementary capabilities should be placed with enough importance for it is crucial to complete a mission or a task. In this article, the author produced evidences for how to build a team and the good returns brought by such practices. With three positions set in this article, the PHC succeeded in hiring the qualified people, which can create a team to hold people together and then work for the organization to serve the community. Based on this team, more extensive activities can be facilitated by PHC, proving the significance of building a team. According to the interception of the author, effective communication can be identified as members’ capability of understanding the role and corresponding capability in achieving the mission. Furthermore, the meaning of effective communication has been extended to people’s capability to affect communities to understand that people are doing. In order to apply the explanation of such skill learned in military to the PHC, the author presented how they worked around the mission of providing quality health care...
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...Is Science in the Bible? The need to answer this very question has come about all too often throughout time. It has at times driven a wedge between men because in order to gain knowledge and understanding of the truths of the world, Science deems it necessary to prove the truths by presenting the facts through a systematic process. The Bible on the other hand is presented to man by God and offers knowledge of the truths of the world through having faith and building a relationship with Him, which brings forth the knowledge needed to understand the world. In fact many times being a Christian can mean it must be impossible to be a scientist at the same time. But what many people do not understand is that Christianity and science are quite compatible. It has also been said that Science and Scripture are in no way at odds with each other but rather two distinct ways of thinking. On one hand are the believers of creation whom take the Bible as the only truth needed to understand the world. While on the other hand stands the evolutionist who seeks to explain and understand the truths of the world created by a God that cannot be seen or touched. For many years man has worked diligently to explain and prove the phenomena of the universe. This field of study as we know it is called Science. In today’s world Science can best be described as a systematic method used by scientists to prove the phenomena of the universe through observations, measurements, testing and documented...
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...things become flat by building up rapport to help maximize performance and I also did look delegate their authority when appropriate and follow up on any points after a task has been attempted or completed , id encouraged my team members to reflect on the task and I coordinated multi-agency responses such as emergency service together to achieve a common goal. What task we did is the children in need and that carried out effectively in a positive effect on people in the college because we sponsored silent a whole long 4 hours so people can donate money that were collecting for basically children in need and we also did man vs female vs food which grabbed a whole of bunch of students attention and that helped us in the way that the student donated a lot of money we did completed the task and carried it out efficiently and effectively. I’ll talk about the leader skills I’ve used and I will explain that why its important and why it’s needed. Planning I was able to plan effectively not just so they can deal with the task at hand but also so that they can deal with anything unexpected that crops up. I shared my plans with other so I can get some feedback that something might me missing that I must fill-in. Communication I was able to tell the team what they are going to be doing and be certain they have understood this is where effective communication becomes important SMEAC comes in place Situation Mission Execution Any questions Check understanding those five points...
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...provide an approach to the development of personal and interpersonal effectiveness. Part 1 The first three habits focus on transitioning from dependence to independence, the mastery of self. Each of us begins life as an infant. We are completely dependent upon others to care for us. “They gradually, over the ensuing months and years, we become more independent- physically, mentally, emotionally, and financially-until eventually we can essentially take care of ourselves, becoming inner-directed and self-reliant”, (Covey 57), it is in our nature to transition to independence. Wikipedia.org summarizes The 7 Habits in correlation to each phase, beginning with self-mastery. Habit 1: Be Proactive describes how to take initiative in life by understanding how our decisions are determining factors for effectiveness in your life. Covey encourages us to take responsibility for our choices and accept the consequences that come with those choices. Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind explains how to discover and clarify our deeply important character values and life goals and how to envision the characteristics we use in our various roles and relationships. Habit 3: Put...
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...of creating a strategy based on introspection, understanding, goal creation and awareness for personal development within educational settings, professional settings or in order to improve oneself (Smith, 2011). Personal development planning (PDP) helps ascertain goals in an educational context, it also highlights strategies to achieve those goals. In Gsm the PDP process can be crucial in developing skills that are needed in pursuit of a student’s educational and career endeavours such as presentation skills, academic writing and so on, there will be an explanation on some of the skills below. An example of one of these skills is self-reflection, it is a process that helps students review how they are developing and where there is room for improvement. PDP in Gsm enables students to be better learners, it also teaches them how to reach their full potential. Paraphrasing can be defined as “Expressing the meaning of (something written or spoken) using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity” (Oxford dictionary, 2015), It is a literary tool that helps a student use their own words to convey or incorporate another person’s idea or message into their work without plagiarism. Some other uses of paraphrasing are. Paraphrasing is necessary for academic writing, Universities students need paraphrasing to produce work in that level(Lebedev, 2014).Paraphrasing is a very useful for academic purposes as it shows an understanding of the material and it also shows the student...
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...educator does create a web that which shows the child new knowledge of the hurricane.2. 2. Balls were also represented by using a Web that presented many different types of balls.| |Phase Two:Research| Investigation|1. 1. The people tried to compare each others findings and relate it to what they thought rather than what they wanted to hear. They compared, contrasted and found many of the same understandings.2. 2. Children were able to observe different sized and shape balls from new experiences like indoor and outdoor activities by finding out new sizes, heights, lengths, and areas. | Field Work|1. WHEN using raw materials to construct new houses that depend on community care and health provisions – it shows the children how to build and take leadership over there home stay and how helpful it is to lend a hand.2. Discovering all about balls and play areas for new spaces that the children can play with and find out more about balls like setting up a play room with different balls that lean closer among sports for a closer interpretation of balls.| Representation|1. When building a house you need to have bricks or else the foundation will not stay put. A good example of this is by practising with toy lego,...
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...Battalion CSM In today’s Army, Command Sergeants Major have the opportunity to learn a great deal of information to put in their tool kit to have a better understanding of mission command. The shared knowledge that I have learned shall play an important role as I provide pertinent information that will make me value added towards my commander once in position. The training that I received will assist in advising my commander and subordinate leaders. The intent of this paper is to discuss my plans of how I will use some of the principles of mission command as a Battalion CSM in my upcoming duty assignment. As a future CSM, I plan to build a cohesive team with my commander, subordinate leaders, and Soldiers within my organization. A cohesive team starts with establishing trust amongst leaders. My boss’s confidence in me to do the right thing will leave one less concern for him to worry about. We will be one team! I understand that there will be times where we will disagree when it comes to issues and concerns pertaining to Soldiers, but no one else needs to know about those disagreements. I will earn his respect and make sure I treat everyone with dignity and respect. Next, I will coach and mentor the First Sergeants (1SG) within our organization so they will mirror my actions at their perspective company level. While building this team of trust throughout my organization, I will simultaneously reach out to unit leaders in the area and build that same trust with them. Once...
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...Key points A clear regard for history, an honest understanding of where we are today, and having the intellectual curiosity as we look to the future will be key to one’s ability to be an effective leader. These are the key points that I gleaned from the readings that were assigned to me. As a student of history and political science, I am always impressed when an author can help us understand where we are today, by giving us a clear understanding that much of what we will see in the future has at least some basis from the past. This is not to say that we will be in an endless cycle of repeated patterns, but that we will for the most part see traces of the past as our future unfolds. I was particularly impressed with the way Devereaux described the 75 year cycle and how we are now in the midst of the final 25 years of what she describes as the badlands. It is true that the majority of the transformational change that we encounter typically happens at the end of a cycle just as we transition into a new era. In my opinion, sound decision making should be made with an understanding of history as it relates to the question at hand. Thomas Friedman’s words give us an understanding of history, but he also talks about how we can learn from the successes and failures of America’s decisions during the last 50 years. He paints a vision for us to look to as we sit on a precipice where we as a nation clearly have a choice to make. Do we continue to act ‘as dumb as we wanna be’...
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...page paper as a group displaying your understanding of the questions posed in the Porsche case-brand awareness, changing customer attitudes, and other information from the case- including marketing strategy. Summarize your understanding of the concepts. Reminders: Did you write a summary that displays your understanding of the marketing environment? Did you provide an explanation of the concept and brand-awareness? Did you provide an explanation of the customer decision model regarding Porsche? Did you meet the page number requirement? Assignment 3 Pg 129 Video Case: Domino's Analyze the key principles from Domino's case study that you discussed in unit two, and divide into small groups to answer these additional questions: (Obviously you can't divide into a group). *1. What cultural factors have led to the explosion in social networking? *2. How has Domino's changed the way companies understand opinion leaders in marketing? *3. How is Domino's helping companies gain insight into the buyer decision process? Brainstorm a new social networking site that will provide brand awareness and greater customer relationship building for the company of your choice. Write a one page outline describing your company, how you will design their social network and include a justification for why this marketing strategy will be a benefit in terms of customer relationships to your company. Assignment 4 Read Appendix 1 to better your understanding. Use this as a guide to develop the...
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...instruction differentiated? Yes, EEL and Special Education students will have flash cards, I-pads to help pronounce the words, memory match. How will ELL or special needs students benefit from these lessons? To help them build up their vocabulary by learning the basic and more frequent words. Name the activities that support learning modalities, gender, or cultural groups. 5. Are there frequent and multiple ways to check for understanding during instruction? List the strategies to check for understanding. Include other strategies not in the lessons that could be utilized to further check for student understanding. • Spelling test • Memory test • Flash card • Reading probes • Printable worksheets • Pre and post games SHELTERED INSTRUCTION OBSERVATION PROTOCOL (SIOP) SIOP is more of an effective why to plan your lesson plans to meet the needs of English Language Learners. SIOP has more detailed steps within the lesson plans that can help break every step down. SIOP Model Components consist of: • Preparation • Building Background • Comprehensible Input • Strategies •...
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...The lessons presented this week were informative and interesting. Choosing only one reason to study secular literature is difficult to do, but, I have chosen to expand on the indication that literature helps us to understand human behavior. I chose this area because as I am reading books and other material, I am building the visual picture of what, how, and why the characters act or react as they do. And sometimes I am surprised that the way I envisioned the outcome is completely different than what is actually written. When reading about the way that circumstance causes a certain reaction I think we are able to broaden our ability to relate to the differences among people in our society. If we only apply our own experiences and cultural background to everyone around us we are almost certain to judge and interpret reactions or behaviors incorrectly. By having a broader understanding that circumstances and reactions differ among people of different ages, cultures and even in people within our own families and same cultures we can better communicate and appreciate people as a whole. It may not always be that we agree with their reaction, but, we can certainly understand why the reaction may or may not be like our own. Lesson three indicates that when we are studying literature that we should consider the motivation, intention or plausible reasons that the characters react as they do. By doing this with multiple circumstances and different outcomes, we can reason that...
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...organization will diminish. When developing strategies for change, there are two possible change models that business leaders can use. Two change management models that can assist in keeping an organization alive are Kurt Lewin and John Kotter’s model for change. Psychologist Kurt Lewin developed a change management model that consisted of three steps. The three-stage processes are: unfreezing, changing, and freezing. In the unfreezing state, Lewin understood that people are afraid of change because they feel safe in their no changing environment, therefore, resist change. The unfreezing state is the stage of motivating people to want and understand that there is a need for change. The first stage helps followers “thaw” and become understanding through motivation (Prentice Hall, 2012). After the unfreezing stage, the changing stage is put into action. People begin to do things differently in this stage. They begin to see why and how the changes benefit them. Time and communication is an important part in the change environment because people need time to understand the changes and they need to be motivated in order to feel like they are a part of the change (Prentice Hall, 2012). When the changes are taken into consideration and are being embraced in the working environment, the company freezes again. The company freezes because the staff has adapted to the change and is now following the new guidelines comfortably (Prentice Hall, 2012). It is important at this stage that...
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