The document defines and discusses the built environment. It states that the built environment consists of human-made surroundings that provide settings for human activity, including homes, offices, commercial buildings, parks, transportation systems, water resources, infrastructure, and ground support systems. It was created to serve human needs and protect humans from the overall environment. The purpose of the built environment is to provide living, working and recreational spaces for humans through structures and distribution systems. It touches all aspects of human lives.

1. DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL
ENGINEERING
Built Environment:
Definition, Need and Purpose
Mr. Ramprasad Kumawat
(M.Tech)

2. Built Environment
• Built Environment: Definition, need and
purpose
• Elements of Built Environment:
• a) Homes, Offices and Commercial Buildings,
Parks and Recreation Centers (Civil
Engineering is the basis for developing the
built-environment)
• b) Transportation systems consisting of roads,
railway tracks, culverts, and Airport runways

3. • c) Water resources and water systems
• d) Infrastructure mainly consisting of
buildings, bridges, Tunnels, dams, canals,
sewer systems
• e) Ground support systems

4. Built Environment: Definition, need
and purpose
It is everything human created, modified, or
constructed, human made, arranged, or
maintained.
It is the creation of human minds and the result
of human purposes; it is intended to serve
human needs, wants, and values.

5. • It is created to help us deal with, and to protect
us from, the overall environment, to mediate or
change this environment for our comfort and
well-being.
• Each and all of the individual elements
contribute either positively or negatively to the
overall quality of environments both built and
natural and to human-environment
relationships.

7. • The term built environment refers to the
human-made surroundings that provide the
setting for human activity, ranging in scale
from buildings and parks or green space to
neighborhoods and cities that can often include
their supporting infrastructure, such as water
supply or energy networks.

8. • The built environment is a material, spatial,
and cultural product of human labor that
combines physical elements and energy in
forms for living, working, and playing.
• It has been defined as “the human-made
space in which people live, work, and
recreate on a day-to-day basis”

9. Human Needs
• To survive, all organisms must satisfy certain
basic needs. Humans are no exception.
• The most basic set of needs are
physiological—those required for proper
functioning of the body and mind.

11. General types of
Needs
The Six Levels of Human
Needs
Ways the Needs are Manifested in
the Built Environment
PHYSIOLOGICAL
NEED
1) Subsistence Air, Water, Food, And Shelter,
Economics and Technology
2) Reproduction Kinship, Marriage
3) Security and Bodily
Protection
Shelter, Territoriality Medical,
Police, and Fire Protection,
Weaponry, Law and Government
PSYCHOLOGICAL
AND SOCIAL
NEEDS
4) Protection from social
Dysfunction of Insult
Ethics , Sense of Community,
territoriality Mental Health
Service
5) Protection From
Anxiety and Need of
Belong
The Arts , Religion Cosmology ,
Philosophy, Myth& Magic
Community Kinship Territoriality
6) Self Realization Freedom & Responsibility
Education, The Arts.

12. • Human needs can be physiological or social
and are related to security, respect, and self-
expression.
• People want their built environment to be
aesthetically attractive and to be in an
accessible place with a well-developed
infrastructure, convenient communication
access, and good roads, and the dwelling
should also be comparatively cheap,
comfortable, with low maintenance costs, and
have sound and thermal insulation of walls.

13. • People are also interested in ecologically
clean and almost noiseless environments, with
sufficient options for relaxation, shopping, fast
access to work or other destinations, and good
relationships with neighbors.

14. Built Environment: Purpose
• The built environment touches all aspects of
our lives, encompassing the buildings we live
in, the distribution systems that provide us
with water and electricity, and the roads,
bridges, and transportation systems we use to
get from place to place.

15. • It can generally be described as the man-made
or modified structures that provide people with
living, working, and recreational spaces.
• Creating all these spaces and systems requires
enormous quantities of materials.

16. • THANKS!