You may find this guideline useful when planning for your assignment and allocation of responsibilities within your team. Please relate the guideline to the specific empirical site/program/building you have selected.
Task 1: Develop an assignment plan. The plan will include:
- The purpose and aims of the environmental assessment
- The context of the assignment site: location, environment, etc.
- Key stakeholders/people to be consulted
- The site's role in NMIT: key deliverables/function
- Project methodology including:
Description of what the assessment will involve, such as consultation and identification of key elements of the report, report format, timeline, and protocols.
Site visits carried out and identification of sources of literature relevant to the environmental assessment issues you will be addressing
Any stakeholder liaison/s meetings
Baseline data collection and methods to be used, use of calculators to generate carbon emissions impacts
Summary of data to be used.
Task 2: Describe NMIT general organisation policy/Strategy
Describe, assess and recommend sustainability improvements to aspects of NMIT policy/strategic plans.
Description
This task focuses is on strategic policy analysis from sustainability impact perspective. It applies assessment at the Higher Tier level and looks at:
- Problem identification- specify the issue - Course -why and what?
- Goal setting - what are the aims? Objectives and targets?
- Information collection
- Decision making: Course of action - Priorities -Which? How is choice made?
- Implementation & evaluation When? Where?
The key policy assessment tool is the Business Sustainability Diagnostic Tool. The tools can be used to make a general baseline assessment (scaled checklist) of the organisations policies and program.
Business Diagnostic Tool
Task 3: Describe any NMIT policies in relation to your site/building
The focus is on analysing the assignment site (Lower Tier) from sustainability impact perspective i.e.:
- How are the site/building and operations working?
- What are its environmental impacts?
- What alternatives are available?
- What NMIT sustainability policies apply to the assignment site?
- How do the NMIT sustainability policies relate and translate to the site and administration policies?
Task 4: Greenhouse Gas Assessment of the assignment site
The focus is on analysing the site (Lower Tier) from sustainability impact perspective i.e. :
- How are the site/ building and operations working?
- What are its environmental impacts?
- What NMIT sustainability policies apply to the site?
Greenhouse Gas Calculator Assessment and Report
As part of the assignment, students will conduct a Greenhouse Gas Calculator Assessment and Report.
The Greenhouse Gas Calculator will be provided on moodle
Resources :
Business Diagnostic Tool
Site visit report guide
Greenhouse Gas Calculator Assessment and Report tool
Building data and NMIT building policy
Attachment:- Assignment.rar