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Facility and Infrastructure

Management
Lesson 1
Unit Objectives
• To provide the learners with entry-level insights into the multidisciplinary
field of Facility and Infrastructure Management
Unit Objectives: Learning Outcomes
• Understand and explain:
• The differences between the built environment, a facility and an
infrastructure.

• The need for facility and infrastructure management

• The basic concepts of facility management systems

• Mapping techniques used to document facilities in 3D

• Be able to appreciate the current trends in facility and infrastructure


management.
Course Content
• Introduction: the built environment; overview of facilities and infrastructure in
the built environment; need for facility and infrastructure management
• Facility management systems: development; characteristics; capabilities;
functionality; organisation; benefits and shortcomings; examples
• 3D Documentation: automated mapping; close range imaging techniques;
integration of spatial and other data
• Decision support and 3D Visualisation: Quality and state of maintenance of the
facility, mapping techniques, disposal and boarding procedures and the impact of
modernization on facilities
Built Environment
• Built environment is the human-made
surroundings where people gather to
live, work and play.
• Encompasses both the physical structures
where people do these activities and the
supporting infrastructures, such as
transport, water and energy networks.
• The built environment is a product of
human imagination, design, and labour
• The built environment is created
using resources from the natural
environment to satisfy human
needs.
Components of the Built Environment
• ‘built environment’ refers to aspects of our surroundings that are built by
humans, that is, distinguished from the natural environment.
• Include
• Buildings
• Human-made spaces between buildings, such as parks,
• Infrastructure that supports human activity such as
• transportation networks,
• utilities networks,
• flood defences,
• telecommunications.
Perspectives of Built Environment
• Social Sciences
• Built environment refers to the man-made features that provide the setting for
human activity, ranging in scale from buildings to parks, roads to bridges etc.
• It is the space where humans live, work and recreate on a day-to-day basis.

• Public health
• The term built environment has been expanded to include aspects like access to
healthy food access, clean surroundings, walkability and mobility
• In this field, the built environment is constructed in an effort to improve the well-
being of the community.
• Hence the emergence of green cities and smart cities
Green cities, sustainable city, eco-city

• Is a city whose design considers the


environmental impact of human activities and is
inhabited by people who are dedicated towards
using minimal natural resources as input and
outputminimal waste that pollutesthe
environment.
• This involves the use of renewableenergy
sources, recyclingwaste, efficient use of land
and its resources so as to create the smallest
ecologicalfootprint.
Ecological footprint

Definition
• A method of gauging humans’ dependence on
natural resources by calculating how much of the
environment is needed to sustain a particular life
style or business
• In other words, it measures the demand versus
the supply of nature

• Ecological footprint is the only metric that


measures how much nature we have and how
much nature we use.
Green buildings
• Within green cities are green
buildings.
• Green buildings are sustainable
• They are built in a way that depletion
of natural resources is avoided in
order to maintain an ecological
balance.
Guiding design principles of green buildings:
• Conservation – use only what you need
• Efficiency – use your resourcesefficiently e.g. using raw materials that’sclose to
site. This saves energy and time used for transportation
• Recycling– recycleall waste, build from recycledmaterials and build
from recyclable materials
• Renewableresources – rely on renewable resources (sustainable energy systems)
e.g. solar, wind for energy,biomass etc.
• Restoration – when building,help restore the natural environment e.g. rain
water harvesting.
• Healthy – build a place that is healthy for all
• Minimal impact – In the end the building should have minimal negative impact
to the environment, neighbours, people etc.
Smart City
• Is an urban development vision to integrate
technological systems (sensors, transport,
energy, water, waste management systems etc.)
with ICT in a secure manner to enable a city to
manage its assets efficiently leading to better
quality of life of its citizens.
• Through the use of sensors, data can be
collected from citizens and devices in real-time
and relayed for processing and analysis.
• Example are your GPS-enabled phones are being
used to provide information about traffic which
Google maps uses to provide you with traffic
feeds.
Smart City
Smart City Components
• Smart manufacturing
• Smart government
• Mobility/Wifi
• Smart/Digital Citizens
• Open data
• Smart health
• Smart farming/agriculture
• Smart buildings
• Smart grid/energy utilities
• Smart transportation

Figure 3: Smart city components


Actors in the Built Environment

Other actors:
• Geospatial Engineers/Professionals
• Valuers
• Environmentalists
• Landscape architects
• Environmental scientists,
• Policymakers.
Conclusion
• The built environment has an impact on human wellbeing.
• Its structure, form and function, as well as the quality of its natural
environmental assets, determine its suitability for living in.
• The built environment puts pressure on natural resources, through the
use of land, water and energy resources, as well as through the waste
that is generated from activities taking place within it
• Due to the effects caused by the built environment, we are trying to
mitigate them by building green and smart cities.

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