The purpose of this assignment is to critically assess the effects of the interaction between Life Safety and Property Protection, when considering the fire safety strategy for a large manufacturing and storage facility. Describe and justify the fixed fire protection techniques you would advocate using. In addition when considering the holistic approach discuss how this may affect the operational strategy of the fire fighting. (2500 Words) Debate about warehouse fires has centred on the role ...
This report is designed to compare the advantages and disadvantages of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) to those of conventional internal combustion vehicles (ICEVs) and battery electric vehicles (BEVs) over a range of metrics. The metrics considered are performance (fuel economy and vehicle design), environmental impacts (emissions associated with vehicle/battery manufacturing and vehicle operation) and realities of available infrastructure for BEVs. In this report, HEVs are considered exclus...
1. Disasters are of various types caused by natural phenomena as well as compounded by human error. Natural disaster may be of various type such as earthquakes, cyclone, tornado, flood etc. and other events such as drought, crops failure, etc. whereas man made disasters may include radiation accidents, gas leakage accidents bomb explosion, war time rioting, firing etc. Natural Disasters are unlike anything else in human experience. These are largely beyond control of human being resulting qui...
I believe that the human population has drastically increased due to significant advances in science, medicine and education and that this drastic increase is likely to have adverse effects on our planet and society. On the other hand the lack of education is also a cause of overpopulation. People lacking in education have little knowledge and awareness of the effects of overpopulation and how to control it. During the 20th Century, it is estimated the population of the world almost quadruple...
The main objectives of this mini project were: to provide a review of key concepts and issues relevant to solid waste management for Small ,Medium ,and Large Hotel in Mauritius ; to analyse and evaluate the hotel solid waste management (HSWM) program in Mauritius and to suggest recommendations and areas for further research. The following data collection methods were used in this study: deep review of documents and literature, interviews and a propose methodology to carry out the study. Touri...
Energy is the primary and most universal measure of all kinds of work by human beings and nature. Everything what happens in the world is the expression of flow of energy in one of its forms. Energy crisis is due to the two reasons; firstly that the population of the world has increased rapidly and secondly the standard of living of human beings has increased. Many people today are concerned for the future of the planet. Conventional energy technologies are widely recognized as a major cause ...
1. Disasters are of various types caused by natural phenomena as well as compounded by human error. Natural disaster may be of various type such as earthquakes, cyclone, tornado, flood etc. and other events such as drought, crops failure, etc. whereas man made disasters may include radiation accidents, gas leakage accidents bomb explosion, war time rioting, firing etc. Natural Disasters are unlike anything else in human experience. These are largely beyond control of human being resulting qui...
The objective of the National Solar Mission is to establish India as a global leader in solar energy, by creating the policy conditions for its diffusion across the country as quickly as possible. The immediate aim of the Mission is to focus on setting up an enabling environment for solar technology penetration in the country both at a centralized and decentralized level. The first phase (up to 2013) will focus on capturing of the low hanging options in solar thermal; on promoting off-grid sy...
Soils are composed of five main components (Sinha and Shrivastava, 2000): mineral particles derived from rocks by weathering; organic materials - humus from dead and decaying plant material; soil water - in which nutrient elements are dissolved; soil air - both carbon dioxide and oxygen; and living organisms including bacteria that help plant decomposition. Soils differ in their fertility levels, because they have different proportions of these components and because the mineral particles hav...
Sustainable living is about a lifestyle that reduces an individual's or society's use of global natural resources (Ainoa et al. 2009). For sustainable living, we should conduct our lives in ways that are consistent with the core principles of sustainability, in natural balance and respectful of humanity's symbiotic relationship with the Earth's natural ecology and biological cycles (CELL, 2010?). Such a living style requires that we make serious attempts to reduce our carbon footprint by alte...
