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Week 8| Importance of Financial Appraisal in Selecting a Development Project

Many development projects have been proposed every day yet not all of them are financially viable to carry out. The project could be technically and environmentally feasible but financial aspect is one of the most important aspects that we should not ignore of. Thus, I do realize that the lesson I learnt in lecture on financial appraisals is essential in selecting a viable project. In the lesson, I learnt that there are few methods we could implement to filter out our projects, such as: (Pay Back Method, Average Annual Percentage Rate of Return, Discounted Cash Flow, Net Present Value, Internal Rate of Return).

All these methods could be used in assessing the financial feasibility of the project. In the lecture, I was being taught on the use of all these mathematical calculation which is quite fascinating as the calculation is challenging. It is essential for us to identify the timing and amount of the cash inflow and outflow of the project as well as to determine the appropriate discount rate to be used in the calculation. Moreover, I do realize that we should not judge the project solely on the financial result that has been presented as there are few non-financial considerations we need to take note of such as the potential environmental impact and resources availability. Financial appraisal should be used as a standalone method in selecting the development project. I do learn that there are some drawbacks of all these financial appraisal methods. It will be essential to understand their drawbacks so that the decision that been made will be more informed. Such as, a short payback period does not indicate a good investment as it could be risky if the timing of the cash flow is unpredictable and inconsistent. A longer payback period may not indicate a bad investment as it could be less risky compared to a short payback period investment when the timing of cash flow is predictable and more consistent. 

Week 7| Building Adaptation or Refurbishment

 Due to the seminar in this week, Ms. Liew advise us the refurbishment rather than demolition and construct new building. Due to the public impact as we found during our group discussion, health and safety issue and the cost could be a major problem in this proposed development site at Matilda Street. 

The demolition or refurbishment of older housing has been an active policy area since the late 1880s in the UK, when the government first authorised the statutory demolition of  unsanitary slums. The debate on demolition and new building has been intensified since 2003, the government was also encourage all the contractor to opt for refurbishment rather than demolition due to sustainability policy.

Refurbishment offers clear advantages in time, cost, community impact, reuse of existing structure and protection of existing communities. It can also lead to significantly reduced energy use in buildings in both the short and long term in our proposed site at Matilda Street. So that, Our group had decided the refurbishment as our proposed method.

Week 6| Sustainable Development and Green Building?

This week seminar was talk about the Sustainable development. Firstly, I thought the Sustainable Development was same meaning of Green Building and I can't differentiate between them before Ms Liew described us the meaning and function.

Actually Sustainable development is a way to include many issues simultaneously and to mutual benefit, including local regeneration, community relations and service delivery. It based on balancing social, economic and environmental costs and benefits to ensure the best future. It is about looking at long term as well as short term costs and consequences, and about looking at global as well as local aspects of any decision to meets the needs of the present without harm for the future generations.

In other way, Green Building is a part of aspect in sustainable development, it using the green technologies to reduce energy consumption and designed to reduce the overall impact of the built environment on human health and the natural environment by efficiently using energy, water, and other resources. Besides that, Green Building might incorporate sustainable materials in their construction such as reused, recycled-content, or made from renewable resources to create healthy indoor environments with minimal pollutants.

In Malaysia, there are a lot of government and private companies start focus on the sustainable development. So this sustainable concept will important to support future career to achieve high opportunities in my employment.

Week 5| Market Appraisal: SWOT and PESTEL Analysis

Lesson from the seminar, the feasibility study of a proposed development should comprised market appraisal, site and location analysis. Other than the previous planning system, marketing appraisal and location analysis  we are also have to analyze the market value for development site by using the SWOT & PESTEL analysis.

The strengths and weaknesses are internal to the company and can be directly managed by it, while the opportunities and threats are external and the company can only anticipate and react to them. Often, SWOT is presented in a form of a matrix as in the illustration below:

SWOT Analysis

PESTLE is a mnemonic which in its expanded as (Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal & Environmental). It gives a bird’s eye view of the whole environment from many different angles that one wants to check and keep a track of while contemplating on a certain plan.

PESTEL Analysis

Tutor discuss the SWOT & PESTEL Analysis with us during the seminar, so that we could more familiar the analysis in our proposed development site. The market appraisal allow me grown up the knowledge for a proposed development. This analysis could help me to improving the consideration on "Planning Work" under the CIOB competencies framework.

Week 4| Construction Planning System

For this proposed development, we should to find out the rules City Policies and Sheffield Core Strategy from the city council. During seminar, tutor practice us to explore the proposal map  and to identify the proposed development zone, related acts and regulations can  be used in the development of a construction project.   

Sheffield City Council Proposals Map

This lesson I had a great important knowledge in  planning system work under the CIOB competencies framework, because it provided all the necessary environment information around the site. 

The site is locate in flood zone which described as 3a High probability, so that the Strategic Flood Risk Assessment must be considered into proposed development site. Due to this risk consideration, the correct decision through understanding we could made to utilize effectively the information resources. 

So this practice was important enhance my knowledge in site analysis planning system which can apply on my future project to propose a suitable development and meet the requirement for development of the proposed site. 

Week 3| Think Back, Move Forward

The project can be either refurbish or demolish, since our group members and I were unfamiliar the Integrated Project assessment within a short period of time. We were keep searching the data which may out of guideline and there are plenty data we should filter them out. During our first discussion, we plan to demolish the existing building and rebuild a new design of building, so that a lot of information of demolish had been collected. Due to more research of demolish that we done, found out the cost would be a major problem, because the new building running out of capital and other public impacts such as health impact from demolition dust.

After that, lecturer improved and changed our mind, Mr. Tim had taught us: "think backward" and start thinking reversely on the considerations and the risks encounter by the proposed development, we might not to demolish but can think the refurbishment as our consideration in this development, there not only one way to success. We could learn more methods, start to decide a better propose in this development assessment. 

Week 2| Site Visit at Matilda Street

On second week, I went with my group members to propose development site at Matilda Street to collect important information and data the Integrated Project assessment. Mr. Dave Weatherall  had brief us about the site and provided measurement tools to allow us measure the existing building dimensions.

Unfortunately, we were not prepare well before the site visit and just one chance allow to visit the internal condition of the building. Firstly, the existing building layout plan had been given in the SHU blackboard, but we still running out of time focus on the dimension of existing building cause us less attention about the important safety and health, structure and the services condition of the existing building. 

After the site visit, we sharing the inspection information to cover up the important information losses, and base on the photo and video recorded to recall more detail of the proposed development site.   For the external environment of the proposed building, we decided to went second time on the site and done more inspection as we can. 

Week 1| Assignment Brief: Padlet Wall and Blogger

On first week Lecturer and seminar were introduced the Padlet wall and Blogger. The Padlet wall and Blogger require us to create a client brief presentation and reflective blog as our assignment.

The reflective blog helps us to reflect on what we had learnt. For example, the site experience and knowledge during the seminar, lecturer or discussion, review back what we left out or mistake during the development planning, reflect out why the mistake occur, and last, how to change and improve  become better. So, it is a circulation of reflection-learning-planning-action.

Padlet wall which formerly known as Well-wisher is a cool web application that facilitates us to post whatever we want on a ‘wall’. Think of it as an online multimedia scrapbook on steroids. We could choose a topic which is Integrated Project- Matilda Street, create a wall and post our proposed site description, images, videos or documents, etc. Padlet walls are free-form, meaning, we could post content on any part of the page as a presentation to brief the proposed development to our client. 

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