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. 

Google Blogger Link

Padlet Wall Link

Padlet Wall Tutorial