Calculators to generate carbon emissions impacts

Reference no: EM13835298

You may find this guideline useful when planning for your assignment and allocation of responsibilities within your team. Please relate the guideline to the specific empirical site/program/building you have selected.

Task 1: Develop an assignment plan. The plan will include:

- The purpose and aims of the environmental assessment
- The context of the assignment site: location, environment, etc.
- Key stakeholders/people to be consulted
- The site's role in NMIT: key deliverables/function
- Project methodology including:

Description of what the assessment will involve, such as consultation and identification of key elements of the report, report format, timeline, and protocols.

Site visits carried out and identification of sources of literature relevant to the environmental assessment issues you will be addressing

Any stakeholder liaison/s meetings

Baseline data collection and methods to be used, use of calculators to generate carbon emissions impacts

Summary of data to be used.

Task 2: Describe NMIT general organisation policy/Strategy

Describe, assess and recommend sustainability improvements to aspects of NMIT policy/strategic plans.

Description

This task focuses is on strategic policy analysis from sustainability impact perspective. It applies assessment at the Higher Tier level and looks at:

- Problem identification- specify the issue - Course -why and what?

- Goal setting - what are the aims? Objectives and targets?

- Information collection

- Decision making: Course of action - Priorities -Which? How is choice made?

- Implementation & evaluation When? Where?

The key policy assessment tool is the Business Sustainability Diagnostic Tool. The tools can be used to make a general baseline assessment (scaled checklist) of the organisations policies and program.

Business Diagnostic Tool

Task 3: Describe any NMIT policies in relation to your site/building

The focus is on analysing the assignment site (Lower Tier) from sustainability impact perspective i.e.:

- How are the site/building and operations working?

- What are its environmental impacts?

- What alternatives are available?

- What NMIT sustainability policies apply to the assignment site?

- How do the NMIT sustainability policies relate and translate to the site and administration policies?

Task 4: Greenhouse Gas Assessment of the assignment site

The focus is on analysing the site (Lower Tier) from sustainability impact perspective i.e. :

- How are the site/ building and operations working?

- What are its environmental impacts?

- What NMIT sustainability policies apply to the site?

Greenhouse Gas Calculator Assessment and Report

As part of the assignment, students will conduct a Greenhouse Gas Calculator Assessment and Report.

The Greenhouse Gas Calculator will be provided on moodle

Resources :

Business Diagnostic Tool

Site visit report guide

Greenhouse Gas Calculator Assessment and Report tool

Building data and NMIT building policy

Attachment:- Assignment.rar

Reference no: EM13835298

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