Serena Effective Communication 2018

In my opinion, I feel that team SUN did a fantastic presentation. Their slides were concise, and this makes me easy to read and understand the content that they wanted to deliver.  Unlike other teams, this team had used video to reinforce their idea and this further adds an impact to their overall presentation. Their tone and pace of their speech during the presentation are quite consistent although there are some mistakes in between overall, they did a good job. During the presentation, they have always maintained good eye contact with the audience and there are not much filter and Singlish words being used.  Overall, their delivery in the presentation was impactful and meaningful. Their topic was about wireless charging buses was interesting as most teams did not have any similar topics as them which make them stand out from the rest. Their introduction for their presentation was entertaining that they were able to capture the audience fullest attention. Apart from their am...

Serena Koay graduated with a diploma in engineering with business from Nanyang Polytechnic.  She has a passion for environmental engineering.  During her course of study,  she had an internship at Siemens where she did experiments related to the recycled material. From the experience, she realized that by reusing municipal waste can help to  protect the environment.

This report was written in response to the call for engineering problem-solution proposal. In this proposal, the team presents a method to incorporate plastic waste into concrete. Building and Construction Authority has been urging the stakeholders in the construction industry to use waste as a construction material, providing a sustainable construction in the construction industry in Singapore. Therefore, the team is proposing to incorporate 30 – 40% of plastic waste into concrete. This proposal will detail the effectiveness of incorporating plastic waste into concrete. The team suggests to partially replacing aggregates with shredded plastic waste and discusses its benefits and limitations. Carbon nanotubes can be added in as a supplementary material to meet any specific design requirements. An evaluation of the benefits and possible limitations to these proposed solutions has also been included in this report.

14 March 2018 Mr. Huge Lim Building and Construction Authority 52 Jurong Gateway Road #11-01 Singapore 608550 Dear Mr. Lim, RE: Proposal for Incorporating Plastic Waste into Concrete Enclosed for your kind consideration is the following proposal for introducing a new design of green concrete through partial replacement of aggregates with plastic waste to Singapore’s construction industry. This proposal has been prepared in response to your letter of authorization for the report. The report consists of a description of the current situation regarding plastic waste, the rationale behind the proposed solutions, an evaluation of the benefits, suggested alternative solutions and a detailed summary of all related primary and secondary research. We target to reduce the plastic waste in Singapore and we have provided information on the methods to integrate plastic waste into concrete, and an analysis on how plastic waste behaves in concrete. We would like to expres...

1.0 Introduction 1.1 Background This proposal is developed in response to the call for engineering problem solution. for creating solutions towards reducing the amount of waste specifically plastic to landfill in Singapore. As Singapore’s human population has been increasing at a staggering rate of 4.028 million in the year 2000 to 5.612 million in the year 2017, the amount of waste produced has been increasing at an alarming rate. In the year 2016, 7.81 million tonnes of waste were produced compared to 7.67 million tonnes in 2015. Our only remaining landfill Semakau landfill is expected to be fully filled by the year 2035. With the pressure of our landfill filling up, NEA has been encouraging the local construction industry to incorporate more recycled and waste materials as building materials. (Eco-business, 2011) The construction industry in Singapore has been using waste materials such as Recycled Concrete Aggregates (RCA), Washed Copper Slag (WCS) and Ground-granula...

In the article “Building with Bamboo”, Ghavami and García (2017) state that bamboo provides various benefits when used in the construction industry. Bamboo is environmentally friendly as it grows in abundance. The article states that the structural strength of bamboo is comparable to steel; laminated bamboo has similar properties to timber and glue-laminated timber. The article further mentions about corrugated bamboo being effective when used in concrete. However, the article also states that bamboo poses challenges when used in construction as there are variables that are inherent; bamboo has geometrical irregularities and “high-water absorption and susceptibility to fungal and insect attack." The writers hope that multinational enterprises will emphasize reducing global warming by investing in developing more economical and environmentally friendly materials such as bamboo. While the usage of bamboo in construction is being encouraged, there are still further studies and develo...

The goal that I had set for this module was to improve my writing skills. Personally, I feel that I have achieved this goal as I have the chance to write a full technical report and the constantly updated blog posts for this module. Through the report and blog posts, I find myself being more critical of my grammar errors, sentence structure in the passage. Being critical, it allows me to be more careful in my writing skills.  I would like to use the skills that I have learned in this module into my daily life as it can constantly help me improved my ability in my writing. The main challenge for our project was the writing of full technical report due to the busy schedule of our group members. As the three of us are different project groups in other modules, it was very difficult to meet up and discuss the project.  This resulted that our group to have lack of communication. Thus, we decided to split the workload eventually and later compile everything together. This leads to ...

Serena Koay graduated with a diploma in engineering with business from Nanyang Polytechnic. She has a passion for environmental engineering.  During her course of study,  she had an internship at Siemens where she did experiments related to recycled material.  From the experience, she realised that by  reusing municipal waste can help to protect the  environment which can be applied to concrete.

This report was written in response to develop a solution for an engineering problem. In this proposal, the team presents a method to incorporate plastic waste into concrete.  Building and Construction Authority has been urging the stakeholders in the construction industry to use waste as a construction material, providing a sustainable construction in the construction industry in  Singapore. Therefore, the team is proposing to incorporate 30 – 40% of plastic waste into concrete. This proposal will detail the effectiveness of incorporating plastic waste into concrete.  The team suggests to partially replacing aggregates with shredded plastic waste and discusses its  benefits and limitations. Carbon nanotubes can be added in as a supplementary material to meet any  specific design requirements. An evaluation of the benefits and possible limitations to these proposed  solutions has also been included in this report.

14 March 2018 Mr. Huge Lim Building and Construction Authority 52 Jurong Gateway Road #11-01 Singapore 608550 Dear Mr. Lim, RE: Proposal for Incorporating Plastic Waste into Concrete Enclosed for your kind consideration is the following proposal for a new method of creating concrete  in Singapore. This proposal has been prepared in response to your letter of authorization for the report. The report consists of a description of the current situation regarding plastic waste, the rationale  behind the proposed solutions, an evaluation of the benefits, suggested alternative solutions and a detailed summary of all related primary and secondary research. We target to reduce the plastic  waste in Singapore and we have provided information on the methods to integrate plastic waste into  concrete, and an analysis on how plastic waste behaves in concrete. We would like to express our gratitude to you for taking the time to read this proposal....

1. Introduction 1.1 Background Singapore named the “The Garden City’’ as it is one of the greenest countries in Asia. Thus, Singapore has been emphasizing on waste management as Singapore’s only remaining landfill is Semakau landfill. Semakau landfill is predicted to be filled by the year 2035. Singapore’s population is growing at a staggering rate every year from 4,027.9 million in 2000 to 5,612.3 million in 2017. An increase of 1584.4 million in the past 17 years.The increase in population eventually leads to the incline of solid waste generation. In 2016, there were 7.81 million tonnes of waste being produced as compared to the 7.67 million tonnes in 2015. There is an increase of 140,700 tonnes. Similarly, if this rapid increase in waste generation continues, the landfill would be filled up before the expected year. National Environment Agency (NEA) conducted several surveys about the different waste type, waste disposed, and waste recycled, waste generated and recycling...

Interpersonal conflict communication skills is a key factor that lead to a disagreement between each other. One situation happens in a shopping mall where it involves my friend and I. The communication breakdown was trying to persuade her to stop stealing things in the shopping mall as it will be a serious offense and probably led her to jail. One day, I went shopping with her, I realized she was stealing things in a department store, I told her to put it back or else we will get in deep trouble. She felt frustrated that I kept nagging at her for telling her to put back the stuff and then she shouted “shut up” at me in an angry and rude manner. After the quarrel, she was being extremely cold to me while we will walking to the bus stop. At the bus stop, she told me “let don’t be friends anymore since you do not like to take the risk with me. “ I was stunned that she told this to me and then she left off. After reading the conflict I had, what is the best solution to resolve this situa...

In the article “Building with Bamboo”, Ghavami and García (2017) state that bamboo provides various benefits when used in the construction industry. Bamboo is environmentally friendly as it grows in abundance. The article states that the structural strength of bamboo is comparable to steel; laminated bamboo has similar properties to timber and glue-laminated timber. The article further mentions about corrugated bamboo being effective when used in concrete. However, the article also states that bamboo poses challenges when used in construction as there are variables that are inherent; bamboo has geometrical irregularities and “high-water absorption and susceptibility to fungal and insect attack." The writers hope that multinational enterprises will emphasize in reducing global warming by investing in developing more economical and environmentally friendly materials such as bamboo. While the usage of bamboo in construction is being encouraged, there are still further studies and ...