Final report Submission esd

Environmental Sustainable Design ARC 1413/1412 Project 01
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ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
ARC 1413/1412
PROJECT 1
MY COMMUNITY, MY COMMITEMENT
Exploring the sense of environmental and community
engagement as future designer
Group Members:
Cheah Teck Wei0315215
Yap Kar Juen 0313737
Chew Ung Heng 0315397
Tsang Hao Ren 0315753
Chua Jiu Xin 0314025
Submission Date: 14/11/2014

INDEX PAGE NUMBER
Project Proposal
1
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1. Introducton
2-4
2. Project Statement and Objectives
5-14
3. Life Cycle Analysis
15-16
4. Work Distributions
17-20
5. Budget and Expenses
21-22
6. Community Contributors
23-24
7. Outcome and Results
25-29
8. Reflection
30
9. References
31
10. Attachment
32-

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Project Proposal: City Revival Boy’s Home
As ones that are with complete family are no doubts living in a blissful life as
compared to the orphans. Hence, using the opportunity we had in this project, we had chosen
to carry out a community project to help the orphanage. The orphanage that we had chosen to
help out is named “City Revival Boy’s Home” which is an orphanage only for boys with a
total of 15 kids in the house aging from 5 – 13. Through our visit and interview to the baby
sitter in the house, there are a few problems that are faced by them which is the health
problem of the children and the lack of manpower to help in the house which they have only
3-4 female helper in the house that are not able to carry out heavy duties. In this project, we
are planning to help them out with the works that they cannot carry out and make some
prevention that can decreases the chances of the children from getting sick.
In this community project, we will be mainly helping to repair broken things in the
orphanage, such as the timber chairs, basketball ring and a specially designed recycle bin. We
are also going to put nets on the doors of the orphanage to prevent entering of rats that is
believed as one of the reason that caused few of the children in the house having fever in a
week which is seriously harmful to the health of the kids. Besides, we will be helping out in
cleaning up the orphanage such as mopping the place, and also clearing the wild grasses
growing at the garden of the orphanage. The project will be carried out 4 hours twice every
week for 2 weeks in the studio or our home. The project mainly benefits the children in the
orphanage and also the helpers that stay together with them estimating a cost of rm200 –
rm300. Sponsorship for the project is obtained as in donation from the people/student from
the University or outsiders. The materials used in this project will be fully utilized with as
less wastage as possible and by using environmental friendly/recycled material. The working
of the project will be carried out in a way with no harm to the environment.

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1. Introduction
1.1 OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT
1. To increase awareness of current environmental issues locally
2. To induce creativity in attempting to explore the current environmental circumstances
3. To allow students to explore the opportunity to work with the community and for the
community
4. To create awareness of the importance of creating and environmentally sustainable
product/design/services
5. To be able to understand and explain the principles of sustainability from environmental
and social perspective

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1.2 Organization
City Revival Boy's home
CITY REVIVAL COMMUNITY SERVICES BHD (CRCSB) was founded on 13 Feb
2009 as a non-profit charitable organization, a public company, limited by guarantee. It was
formed to care and serve the community based on Christian principles.
The Board of Directors of CRCSB are Rev. Suresh Sundram (Chairman), Dr. James Sada
(Director) and Bernard Teh (Director).
City Revival Boy’s Home is established on 2006 sheltering children that come from
dysfunctional families. At the Homes, the children are given a fresh opportunity to live in a
family environment filled with love, hope and security. At present, they have 15 boys in the
house aging from 5 to 13 having proper educat ion. CRCSB is governed by a Managing

Committee comprising of Dr. James Sada, Kong Keng Piew, Simon Benjamin and Dr.Rhema
Sundram. Together, they oversee the activities of CRCSB and the welfare of the Homes.
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1.3 Reasons why we engage to this site.
Children is the backbones of a country, they have the potential of being a talented individuals
which could contribute to the development of our country. Hence, every child should be
treated fairly and provided with well-education. Unfortunately, there are some which is
unfortunate where their parents passed away due to some incidents, abandoned by his/her
parents, and so on. All of these unfortunate ones will be sent to the orphanage taken care by a
few of kind souls, providing them a better life with love and care.
As ones that came from blissful families, we decided to take the opportunity of this project
engaging to the orphanage, helping the unfortunate ones with what we can do with the best
we can give. The orphanage is always neglected by the community and left without care and
they often meet problems and situation where they cannot solve it by themselves. Our main
job scope is to lend a helping hand to them and thus to promote, raise awareness of the
community towards them.

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2. Project Statement and Objectives.
2.1 Identified Issues
A. Metal Doors
The paint of the metal doors is in bad condition. It had already begun to peel off from the
gates. This is both dirty and also hazardous for children as they might accidentally consume
the peeled off paint unknowingly.
B. Dining Chair

A lot of the dining chairs present on the dining room had broken down or in need of repairs.
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A lot of the nails had started to loosen or parts of the wood detached.
C. Basketball Board
The only source of games and sports there is the basketball ring. Unfortunately, the ring had
broken and also the board supporting.
D. Renewing License
They wanted to renew their license for their organization and wanted recycle bin in order to
do so. Other than that, the stack of newspaper collected in the orphanage had no place to put
except on the ground.

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2.2 Proposed Solutions
A. Metal Doors
To tackle this problem, we decided to repaint the metal doors there. We are planning to use
non-toxic paint. This can help prevent children from consuming it accidentally if the paints
ever fall off again.
B. Dining Chair

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Ideas:
1. Repairing the chairs
2. Buying new chairs
3. Creating new chairs
Considerations:
Buying new chairs and making new ones would mean to have contribute with the use of more
timber. Repairing the chairs would not only help save cost but will also avoid throwing them
out when still in working condition.
Conclusion:
To prevent any accidents from happening, we decided to repair the chairs and also increase
the support for the chairs. To do so, we might require simple carpentry tools and extra
wooden plank for increase support to the chairs.

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C. Basketball Board
Proposed plans:

To repair the basketball board, we decided to fix the broken board and attach a new ring to it.
Since its nearly impossible to create a solid basketball ring that can withstand the force of the
basketball with the tools we had. We decided to order a new basketball ring and attach it
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ourselves.
D. Newspaper
Since the owner requested it, we are going to design a recycle bin for the orphanage. This
would not only help organize the place a bit but also help promote recycling to the children
living there.
Proposed plans:

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2.3 Problem Solving
A. Repainting of metal doors:
All the metal doors (3 exactly) had been repainted with yellow paint. Each door was painted
with 2 layers of paint for better quality of work as instructed/advised by the paint seller.
B. Repairing of Dining Chairs:
After analysing the chairs and identifying the source of the problem, we concluded that all the
chairs were poorly made and had insufficient support for long term using. We planned how
we can repair the broken chairs and also improve the chairs to last longer. More wood were
added to the legs of the chairs to help support the force.

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C. Basketball Board:
To fixed the basketball board, we had to planned carefully on how to repair so we won’t
made it worse while trying to fixed it. To repair the basketball ring, we installed a wooden
board on the broken area of the board. With that, we finally screwed the basketball ring to the
board.
D. Building a Recycle Bin
As requested by the owner there, we also build up a recycle bin for licensing purpose. It is
also a great practice for children to learn to save the environment.

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3.1 Materials Used:
a. Wood
Wood is considered a more environmental friendly because it has low carbon foot print
compared to other products. Timber production also makes a positive contribution to
reducing carbon emissions by being part of the short term carbon cycle that involves trees
absorbing carbon dioxide from the air, releasing oxygen and storing the carbon in the
wood.

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b. Steel and iron
Metal extraction is one of the major pollution problems. Mining caused a lot of serious
problems, materials being dug and processed to extract the esired metal while leaving a
large amount of solid waste, which can cause the high concentration of metal in the soil,
and slowly deteriorate the balance of ecology of the environment.
c. Paint
The paint also does have environment impact to the environment by releasing VOC’s
(Volatile Organic Compounds) to the environment. These organic compounds are
routinely added to paints to enhance performance. Luckily, the paints made today are now
considerably cleaner than before.

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4 Work Distributions
4.1 Work Distributions
As a group with only 5 members out of maximum of 10, most of the works we are required to
carry out by all of our members:
- Acquiring sponsors
- Doing the report
- Site Visit
Name Before During After
Cheah Teck Wei Site Visit
Proposal
Acquiring materials.
Repainting gates.
Making of Recycle
Bin (R.B.)
Repairing Basketball
Ring
Repairing chair.
Completing of report.
Yap Kar Juen Finding site
Site Visit
Acquiring
Permission to Site.
Acquiring materials.
Repainting gates.
Making of R.B.
Repairing chair.
Ring
Video editing.
Tsang Hao Ren Site Visit
Design of recycle
Repainting gates.
Making of R.B.

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bin. Videographer.
Repairing chair.
Ring
Chew Ung Heng Site Visit
Proposal
Design of recycle
bin.
Repainting gates.
Making of R.B.
Repairing chairs.
Ring
Chua Jiu Xin Site Visit
Photographer
Video Recorder
Repainting gates.
Making of R.B.
Ring
Repairing chairs.
Video editing.

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4.2 Work Progress
DAY COMPLETED
TASK
IN PROGRESS ASSIGNED BUT
NOT
COMPLETED
COMMENTS
WEEK I
29/8/2014 -
5/9/2014
Briefing of
Project
Selection of Site
WEEK 2
6/9/2014 –
12/9/2014
Shown the site
we had chosen n
some ideas on
our objects
based on the
need of the site.
Identified the
problems that
faced by the
orphanage house
Find sponsor
WEEK 3
13/9/2014 –
19/9/2014
Found sponsors
to buy the paint
and materials
worked together
for clearing and
cleaning the site
Proposals on the
site to show for
tutorial session
WEEK 4
20/9/2014 –
26/9/2014
Acknowledgme
nt letter had
shown
doing the painting
work
designs of the
Recycle Bin and
Basket Ball rings
Approval final
design from
lecturer for the
objects
WEEK 5
27/9/2014 –
3/10/2014
Finalize the both
designs and the
materials of the
objects and get
approval from the
lecture.

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WEEK 6
4/10/2014 –
10/10/2014
Execution work
on site
WEEK 7
11/10/2014
17/10/2014
Making of the
recycle bin and
the basketball
rings
WEEK 8
18/10/2014-
31/10/2014
Shown 30% of
report to be
showed for next
tutorial session.
Need to done 70%
of the report
WEEK 9
1/11/2014 –
7/11/2014
Done 50% of the
report needs to
the lecture.
WEEK 10
8/11/2014 –
14/11/2014
Completion of
work on site
Report and video
editing

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5. Budget and Expenses.
5.1 Budget and Cost.
A. Budget
Type Description Amount
Donation
Cash Rm207.60
Sponsorship
Cash
Food for fundraising – Ice
Cream Potong (300pcs)
Rm500
Fund Raising
Food Sales Rm398
Total Rm1105.60
B. Expenses
Type Product Description Quantity Cost Total
Paint Paint Seamaster Paint Super
Glo High Gloss Finish
6648 Fiesta Orange
1 Rm23.30 Rm23.30
Paint Paint Seamaster Paint Super
Glo High Gloss Finish
6669 Sunrise Yellow
2 Rm23.30/pc Rm46.60
Repair Basketball
Ring
Red Basketball Ring
coated with anti-rust
paint.
1 Rm50.00 Rm50
Hardware Plywood 1x2x8 Plywood
4x6x8
3/8x6x8
0.5x18x36
0.5x14x24
Custom Length
plywood
3
1
1
1
1
1
Rm8.80/pc
Rm18.90
Rm8.00
Rm16.00
Rm9.00
Rm13.50
Rm26.40
Rm18.90
Rm8.00
Rm16.00
Rm9.00
Rm13.50
Hardware Sandpaper A4 size sandpaper
5 Rm0.60/pc Rm3.50
Hardware Paint Brush Low quality Paint Brush
Paint Brush
1
3
Rm1.50
Rm6.80/pc
Rm1.50
Rm20.40
Hardware Thinner Lady Bug Brand
Thinner
2 Rm4/bottle Rm8.00

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Hardware Steel Wire
Mesh
12feet Steel Wire Mesh 1 Rm3/ft Rm36.00
Hardware Steel Plate Custom made Steel
Plate
1 Rm35.00 Rm35.00
Hardware Screw and
nails.
Variety of sizes- Screw
Nails
- Rm0.50
Rm1.50
Rm0.50
Rm1.50
Hardware Bolt and
Nuts
Bolt
Nut
4
4
Rm0.50/pc
Rm0.50/pc
Rm2.00
Rm2.00
Hardware Hacksaw Hacksaw 1 Rm18 Rm18
Hardware Hardwood Custom Size 1 Rm18 Rm18
Hardware Wire Cutter 1 Rm20 Rm20
Hardware Wood
Handle
Plywood Handle 1 Rm4.50 Rm4.50
Total Rm382.60

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6. Community Contributors
6.1 Sponsors
A. Lee C.K Food Productions
Type of sponsorship: Food for fund raising.
Amount: Ice Cream Potong Sinwah 300pcs.
B. Alpha Hope Sdn. Bhd.
Type of sponsorship: Cash
Amount: RM200
C. Yap Brothers Sdn. Bhd.
Type of sponsorship: Cash
Amount: Rm300
D. Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus, Sunway Pyramid Community.
Type of sponsorship: Cash donation
Amount: Rm207.60

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6.2 Acknowledgement
We would like to express my deepest appreciation to all those who provided us the
possibility to complete this report. A special gratitude we give to our lecturers whose
contribution in stimulating suggestions and encouragement helped us to coordinate our
project.
Furthermore I would also like to acknowledge with much appreciation the crucial role
of the City Revival Boy’s Home person-in-charge, Mr Kong, who gave the permission to
help the them. A special thanks goes to all those whom donated to us for the funding we
needed. Last but not least, many thanks go to the head of the project, Yap Kar Juen whose
have invested his full effort in guiding the team in achieving the goal. I have to appreciate the
welcome given by the boys’ in City Revival Boy’s as well.

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7. Outcome and Results.
7.1 Progress and Results.
A. Repainting the gates.
The paint of the
gates of the City
Revival Boy’s Home
is stripped and
rusted inside. Thus it
might cause wound
to the children.
Anti-Toxic Yellow
Paint is used to
repaint the gates. A
bright colour is used
to give a more
positive feeling to
the house.
Final product after
painting, rusted
areas all covered
with aesthetic colour
scheme.

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B. Adding a recycle bin.
The dimensions of
the recycle bin were
measured and cut
out.
Wire mesh is
prepared and cut as
part of the design
and acting as a semi-permeable
wall for
the recycle bin,
allowing looking into
it.
Group members
working together to
build the recycle bin,
the connecting parts
were connected
used nails.
Side wall is made up
first to provide a
supporting structure
for other parts.
The wire mesh is
added to the inner
wall of the recycle
bin.
The sides of the wire
mesh is cut as the
edges of the wire is
very sharp and
might cut the hands
of the recycle bin
user.
The cover is made
using plywood
connected with
hinge to the
structure which
allows it to open and
close.
The side wall of the
recycle bin is painted
with orange paint to
enhance its
durability/ resistant
towards water.
Added the logo of
recycling on top and
finally its done.

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C. Repairing broken chairs.
The structure of the
chairs was loose
thus making the
whole chair unstable
while sitting.
After measuring the
length of the gap
between the legs of
the chair, long
plywood is cut.
Nails were
hammered into the
chair and connecting
the plywood.
Nails were
hammered into both
sides of the
plywood, thus
enhancing the whole
structural strength.
Children can now sit
on it in safe.

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D. Repairing the basketball ring.
Determining what’s
wrong with the
basketball ring.
A new basketball
ring is bought to
install on it.
By using a drill, holes
to slot in the bolts
and nut for the
basketball ring to be
stand stable on the
basketball board.
The basketball ring is
locked onto the
board between two
pieces of steel piece
with bolts and nuts
to avoid direct
damage to the
basketball board and
ring.
The ring and board is
then screwed and
tighten on a top of
the pillar.
Finally the basketball
ring is fixed and
available for the
children to play.

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8. Reflection
We were very grateful that we were able to finish this project. We were assigned a 5-
man team instead of a 10-man for this project, putting us in a huge disadvantage, halving our
man power. Nevertheless, we pulled thorough and completed our given project. Struggles had
always seem to be this part of the experiment followed by hardwork. We struggled to find a
community, struggle to find donation and also struggle finish everything in time. But with
continuous team work and efforts, we were able do all of it. That have given us a great sense
achievements and joy upon completing this project.
In our time at the community, we were to see and feel the harsh reality the boys are
living in, reminding us how much of a “fairytale” our life was to them. Even so, we were glad
there was a non-charitable organization like this existed to help the children, improving their
life by many folds, just like a blessing, a strain of hope in their lives. All these made us felt
grateful of our life, giving us a reason, a motivation to give. Everytime, before we leave, the
kids would ask us the same question, “will we be coming back again?”, this really broke our
hearts. Just meeting them for a few days was enough for them to enjoy our company and miss
us. It tells us that how much they wanted a person to play with and looked up to. It sadden us
to have to tell them we completed our work and won’t be coming so frequent anymore, but
we assured them we would visit again if given the chance. In the least, we can tell them that
“we will be back”.

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9. Reference
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november 2014]
Diane Kukich (2001). Tracing the environmental effects of metals. [ONLINE] Available
at: https://www.udel.edu/PR/UpDate/02/2/tracing.html. [Last Accessed 13 November
2014].
Environmental Considerations. [ONLINE] Available at:
http://www.paintquality.com/going-green/environment/low-voc.html. [Last Accessed 13
November 2014].

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Attachment

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MINUTES OF MEETING
CHAIRPERSON: CHEAH TECK WEI
SECRETARY: CHEW UNG HENG
ATTENDEES: YAP KAR JUEN, CHEW UNG HENG, CHEAH TECK WEI, CHUA JIU
XIN, TSNAG HAO REN’
ABSENTEES: -
DATE: 5/9/2014 TIME: 10:00 LOCATION: DESIGN STUDIO 1
Topic Suggestion on site chosen
Brought to attention by Everyone
Contents of discussion  Teck Wei Chosen as our group leader
 Suggestion as Orphange, Old Folk Home, Prostitution
and Anti-Drug Society given by group members
 Discussion on the steps in doing for our project
Action required  Research on the site we suggested and get their basic
background information so that we can discuss on the
object that we can make for them and noted down
 Get their contact to ask their permission after we have
decision of the site.
 For tutorial session, we will be showing the site we had
chosen n some ideas on our objects based on the need
of the site.

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MINUTES OF MEETING
ABSENTEES: -
DATE: 8/9/2014 TIME 1:00 LOCATION: LIBRARY LVL 5
Topic Site Chosen
Brought To attention by Everyone
Contents of discussion  City Revival Boys home as our final Decision that was
approved by our lecture during tutorial session.
 We discussed to make a recycle bin based on the site
needed for the education purpose.
 Chosen a date to visit the orphanage to house to
observe what they needed based on the condition of the
site
 Teck Wei volunteered be the one who in charge for
transportation
 Distribution of work
Action required  We will be going the site on Wednesday after
requesting from the person in charge to more
understanding what they need
 Distribution of work among our group members
 Fund Raising- Teck wei, Sean& Chew
 Sponsers- Hao Ren& Jason
 We need to finalize the objects that we will be making
for the orphanage house after the site visit
 Chew and Teck will prepare the proposal on the aiming
we want to acheive

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MINUTES OF MEETING
ABSENTEES: -
DATE: 14/9/2014 TIME: 3:00 LOCATION: E 3.04
Topic Objects chosen for the site & clearing of site
Brought To attention by
Everyone
Contents of discussion
 We discuss on the materials that will be used to make
our objects which are Recycle Bin and Basketball
Rings that was approved by our lecturer.
 We discuss on the location and time to get our
materials and paints.
 We decided to have gotong –royong to clean and clear
the orphanage house on the day we chosen, next
Wednesday
Action required  Find sponsors to buy the paint and materials
 Everyone has to bring all the tools needed for the
gotong-royong purpose.
 Everyone working together for clearing and cleaning
the site Discuss with the person in charge for the object
we had chosen to get approval for the next step
 Jiu Xin will be the one who taking the videos along the
project.

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MINUTES OF MEETING
ABSENTEES: -
DATE: 19/9/2014 TIME: 11:00 LOCATION: Design Studio 1
Topic Design of the Objects
Everyone
 Distribution of work of the object designs
 Discussion on the date to do painting for the site and
the colour chosen
 Letter of acknowledgment was required
 Discussion to separate the money from sponsor for
each purpose.
Action required  Distribution of work of the object designs
 Recycle bin: Hao ren & Kar Juen
 Basketball rings: Chew& Jiu Xin
 Teck Wei will in charge for the acknowledgment letter.
 We need to buy the paints on this Saturday with the
money donation.
 We will do the painting work on this Sunday at 10:00
a.m. by bringing all the tools and paint.
 Prepared some designs of the Recycle Bin and Basket
Ball rings for the tutorial session.

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MINUTES OF MEETING
ABSENTEES: -
DATE: 26/9/2014 TIME: 2:00 LOCATION: TIAN CHU RESTORAN
Topic Objects Materials and Way of Making it
Everyone
 Discussion about the design of the objects with the
suggestions by lecture
 Discussion about the materials that will be used for the
objects and the way of making it in proper way
 Distribution of work for proposal and video editing
 Discussion on the date and time to buy the materials
and the tools for making it
 Discussion for the date of next site visit for making the
objects
Action required  Finalize the both designs and the materials of the
objects and get approval from the lecture.
 Distribution of work for proposal and video editing
 Report: Hao ren, Teck Wei and Chew
 Video Editing: Kar Juen and Sean
At 27/2014, we going to buy those materials and tools
We had chosen 5 Oct as the date for our next site visit to the
orphanage.

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MINUTES OF MEETING
ABSENTEES: -
DATE: 3/10//2014 TIME: 1:00 LOCATION: LIBRARY LVL 2
Topic Making of Object
Contents of discussion  Based on the Final design, We discussed on the way
how we making the objects step by step
 Distribution of work in Site Visit
 30% of the proposal need to be done to show lecture
for next tutorial session
Action required  We will be going the orphanage house this sunday
which is 5/10/2014 along the materials and tools we
bought.
 Distribution of work
 Making of Recycle Bin: Teck Wei, Chew & Kar Juen
 Making of Basketball rings: Chua Jiu Xin & Tsang
Hao Ren
 Reparing of Chair: Chew, Teck Wei and Hao Ren
Chew, Hao Ren and Teck Wei need to done 30% of report to
be showed for next tutorial session.

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MINUTES OF MEETING
ABSENTEES: -
DATE: 10/10//2014 TIME: 1:00 LOCATION: LIBRARY LVL 2
Topic Works on report and video edit
Contents of discussion  Distribution of leftover report
 50% of the report needs to be showed to the
lecture.
 Video need to be shower for some part for the
lecture next tutorial
Action required  Distribution of leftover report
1. weekly work progress-Kar Juen
2. Budget and expenses + reference +
Community Contribute rs-Jiu Xin
3. outcome and results-Teck Wei
4. acknowledgments and reflection- Hao Ren
5. minutes of meeting - Chew

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