Esd final report final

MY COMMUNITY MY COMMITMENT
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ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
[ARC 1413]
PROJECT REPORT
GROUP MEMBERS
NAME
STUDENT ID
PRESTON LIEW RU PING (L)
0313822
LEE JO YEE
0314880
CHUNG WEI JIN
0313789
LING HUI SIM
0313855
YUAN KAI SHIEN
0314818
WOO WEN JIAN
0315123
CHAN PIN QI
0314676
BENNY TAN SHIOWEE
0315447
SHIRLEY LIEW QIAO LI
0315671
NICOLAS WONG XIAO EN
0314377

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CONTENTS
PAGES STAGE I: PREPARATION & PROPOSAL
1.1
INTRODUCTION
-PROJECT CONTACTS
-PROJECT OBJECTIVES
3 - 9
1.2
ISSUES IDENTIFICATION
10 – 18
1.3
SOLUTIONS
19 - 21
1.4
PREPARATION & PROCEDURES
- MATERIALS LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS DIGRAMS
- WORK DISTRIBUTION
- GANT CHART
22 - 31 STAGE II: WORK EXECUTION
2.1
WORK PROGRESS
- BREAD SELLING
- BOOKSHELVES, BENCHES AND BROOMS HOOKER MAKING
- FLOOR FURNISHING
32 - 49
2.2
BUDGET & EXPENSES
50 – 52
2.3
COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS
53 - 58 STAGE III: FINISHING AND FINALIZATION
3.1
OUTCOMES & RESULTS
58 - 64
3.2
REFLECTION
65 – 67
3.3
REFERENCES
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“MY COMMUNITY MY COMMITMENT” Project Proposal
Environmental community service is a type of service in which the public reach out towards environmental-community-based organizations such as social-service organizations, non-profit organizations and faith-based organizations. It is one of the many ways for people to contribute back to the society while taking into concern, the environmental issues as well.
Paying It Forward is a project that brings the aim to further develop students’ community and team-working skills. These skills are crucial in developing the students’ good professional design practice in the future. As an active member of the community, students are encouraged to deepen their understanding towards their environment and realize their responsibility towards it. By identifying community related issues around them, students are required to come up with solutions using the most of their creativity which may be of tremendous help in solving real-world challenges in the future.
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1. Organization name: Refuge For The Refugees (RFTR)
2. Contact person:
 Andrea Prisha (Co Founder & Secretary of RFTR) +6 012 254 7853
 Heidy Quah Gaik Li (Founder & Director of RFTR) +6 012 307 3714
3. Address: Chin Children's Education Centre (CCEC), Sungai Besi
4. Website: https://fb.com/refugefortherefugees
5. Email: refugefortherefugees@gmail.com
6. Case study for the background:
This education center is mainly a refuge for Myanmar children whose parents are currently working in Malaysia. There are a total of 75 students and 5 teachers who
Posing in front of the camera, the little boy from the school shows no fear to strangers.
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come from Chin, Myanmar. There are 6 classes carried out in this education center ranging from kindergarten to primary 5. Occasionally, a volunteer would come over to teach the students as there is one teacher short.
The education center is located in a low cost flat with poor conditions. Attention and awareness has to be raised from the authority to really look into their environmental issues.
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Persons-In-Charge for the Refugees School - Miss Andrea and Miss Heidy.
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I. To increase student’s awareness of current environmental issues locally.
II. To encourage creativity in attempting to solve the current environmental and community circumstances.
III. To allow students to explore and discover the opportunity to work with the community and for the community.
IV. To create awareness of the significance of creating environmentally sustainable product to the public.
V. To be able to understand and explain the principles of sustainability from environmental and also social perspectives.
Working together as a team is the key to achieve success in any project.
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The refugees are victims forced to leave their own country due to some unforeseen reasons and stay in a foreign country for an unknown period of time. Most of them do not have citizenships and even rights to study.
We believe that every human has equal rights and there is no reason that we should treat someone badly because there are not Malaysians. Hence, as a bunch of young architectural students, our aim is to make positive CHANGES to their environment by applying what we have learnt. We wish to make them feel like they are home, a better place to live and study even in foreign country.
Store room that kept all the textbooks and teaching materials.
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In this chapter, we are going to show the environmental and community issues faced by our case study and our site visits to the center.
We had our very first site visit of our case study on 22th September 2014. The aim of the visit was to find out the environment or community issues faced by the case study meanwhile engage to the community.
Photos from top left to right clockwise:
1. Our first site visit to the site.
2. The shop houses building block outside the apartment.
3. The way to go into the apartment.
4. The way from the apartment to the entrance of the school.
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CCEC (Chin Children's Education Centre) situated in Sungai Besi is a school of Refugees. Their school is located underneath an apartment that most of the foreign workers. Therefore, there is limited and compact space within that area. Upon reaching the apartment, we started to record our observation. The hygienic quality was pretty bad and the unpleasant smell of rubbish filled up the atmosphere.
Unpleasant smell from the rubbish bins situated at the ground floor of the apartment.
The entrance of the school.
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We carefully made our way to the school, which is situated at the ground floor inside the apartment. Despite of the dark and uncomfortable surroundings, we were immediately welcomed by a bunch of cute little kids at the entrance of the school.
Narrow,dim hallway before the entrance of the center.
The entrance of the center/ school.
The inner view of the center facing the entrance.
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After a few rounds of observations and discussion with the principal of the school Mr.Joseph, we have noticed some key environment issues and condition of the school. I. The bookshelves in the reading zone were insufficient to store all the books and the reading materials were arranged loosely due to their different sizes. There were few more boxes of stationaries were on the ground.
Beside, files that kept records of the children information are normally bigger than the dimension of the bookshelves. Hence, the
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files in the principal room were randomly arranged without a special cabinet.
II. Flooring. The cement casted flooring of the school was uneven and has several holes that will cause the students to trip and fall easily. The problem also make hard for the students to move the partitions when they change
classes.
III. Kitchen Area. The kitchen shelves for the storage of plates, cups, cooking utensils and etc were in a broken and poor condition.
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Brooms and cleaning materials were placed randomly on the floor without a proper cabinet.
IV. The entrance of the school is empty and lack of furniture although there is a big open space. Children found a lack of benches to sit while waiting for their
parents or to rest.
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V. There was a panel of windows that were broken down and left behind only the steel bars. Rain poured in through the opening and disrupted the class. The children have to move their classrooms to another location or postpone the lesson.
VI. Partition. Each classroom was separated using a thin layer of plywood board
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or a thin piece of cloth. Thus, there was no sound insulation between each classrooms.
VII. Toilet bowl. They have insufficient toilet bowls to suit the students’ needs.
VIII. Mural painting. Beautify and enhance their surrounding with drawings and plants.
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No.
ISUUES
SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS
ACTIONS
1. Bookshelves
1. Build a new adjustable bookshelf in the library by using recycling wooden pallets.
2. Provide new cabinets/bookshelves for the storage of books in the principal office.
Agree by the school and Proceed.
2. Kitchen Area
1. Make a new kitchen shelves to store the utensils.
2. Strengthen the original kitchen shelves.
3. Prepare a hanging porch to hang the brooms and mops by using simple wood construction.
3. Flooring
1. Refurnish the floor with new cements.
2. Repair and fix the holes to smoothen the surface.
4. Benches
1. Build some benches that are convenient for the children to change their shoes and to wait their parents. The benches can be made from simple wooden construction with the aids of abandon tires.
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Windows
1. Raise fund and find professionals to install new windows.
Agree by the school but will proceed out of the timeline of the project.
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Partitions
1. Amend the partitions by sandwiching it with layers of cotton that will insulate sounds.
2. Renovate the rooms with adjustable partitions coming out from the wall.
Renovations for the partitions is beyond our capabilities in term of monetary and profession.
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Toilet Bowls
1. Buy small plastics toilet bowl (for kids).
2. Renovate to have more children customized toilet bowls.
Not sustainable and practical as it’s unhygienic to use plastic toilet bowls.
Renovation for the
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toilet is beyond our capabilities in term of monetary and profession.
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Mural Painting
1. Interactive and interesting paintings on the wall for the children
Too distracting for classes.
In conclusion, we have decided to contribute our parts by improvising and amending the chosen aspects below:
1. We will prepare two bookshelves for the center: one to be placed in the library with its adjustable abilities and another one in the principal office to store the files.
2. We will install a brooms and mops hooker to be placed at the corner of the kitchen area.
3. We will hand make two benches in front of the entrance
4. We will raise fund and prepare the cement which is needed for the floor furnishing of the center.
Please refer to Page 33 “Work Progress” for further details.
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PREPARATION & PROCEDURES
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1. Light Truck Tires A tyre is a ring-shaped vehicle component that covers the wheel’s rim on vehicles or other type of transportation (bicycle) to form a soft contact with the road. The component normally made from rubber, typically inflated or surrounding an inflated inner tube.
Figure 1 : Results of the product Life Cycle Assessment for passenger and light truck tires
Figure 1 shows the highest contribution to all environmental impact categories derives from the use phase of the tire (approx. 90%). The reason is the rolling
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resistance of the tire, which needs to be overcome when the car is in motion. This consumes energy.
The acquisition of raw materials accounts for approximately 5% of the environmental impact. Impact attributable to the manufacturing process is even lower. Transportation between the different life cycle phases amounts to no more than 2% of total environmental impact during the product’s life cycle.
Figure 1.1 LCA of TIRES
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2. Paint Paint is a colored substance which is spread over a surface and dries to leave a thin decorative or protective coating. The ingredients of paint normally consist of additives, binder, pigment, filler and water. The ratio of amount is based on the quality of the product.
Figure 2 shows environmental impacts of packaging, distribution and disposal from the paint recycling process were excluded on the premise that new virgin paint
Old paint
Transport
Sorting & Inspecting
Filtration
High Speed Mixing
Storage Tank Mixing
Packaging Figure 2: Lifecycle Environmental Sustainability Assessment of Paint Recycling Process
Distribution to retailers
Unrecyclable’ disposal in landfill
Metal and Plastic Containers’ Recycling
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production would require the same number and type of packaging. It was also reasoned that environmental impacts of distribution would be the same for the new virgin paints as well as for the recycled paint. This is because the company has the same client base. So, the impact would be the same if the company is to manufacture and/or distribute the same amount of new virgin paints that they are recycling. Furthermore, it was assumed that no other ingredient is added to the old paint materials in producing the recycled paint.
Figure 2.1: Flowchart Water-based Paints Production Line
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Figure 2.2 above presents the main operations in the solvent-based household paints production lines, the input to the units and the pollution sources. Work place pollution parameters are VOCS, particulates, and noise. Spills or leaks could occur through the whole process, and may contaminate the water if discharged to the sewer. Chemicals empty containers are generated, and considered hazardous. Those hazardous solid wastes should be safely disposed into a landfill.
Paint Manufacture
Warehouse and Distributions
Paint Retailers
Consumers
Figure 2.2 : L.C.A. of PAINT
LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF
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3. Wooden Pallets
Fossil fuels, biofuels and electric power are the non-renewable energy sources to provide energy in producing wood pallets. The energy use of each life cycle process in relation to functional unit is shown in Figure 2.
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Figure 3 Total use of energy in each life cycle process
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Production of pallets
•Embodied energ: 5.8 GJ
•Carbon dioxide emission:6.04g
Heating oil and Natural gas
•emission: 100.1 g CO2 and 62.8 g CO2/MJ
Fossil fuel heating
Wood pallets stove or furnace
60 to 90% reduction of carbon emissions.
LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF WOOD PELLETS
Figure 3.1 L.C.A. of the Wooden Pallets
Switching
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No.
Students
Site Work
Post Work
Notes
1.
Preston Liew Ru Ping
- Record the project
- Furnishing the woods
Multimedia presentation – Video
Provide transportation
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Nicolas Wong
- Floor Furnishing
Prepare project timeline
3.
Benny Tan Shiowee
- Install Bookshelves
- Install Benches
A3 Poster
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Yuan Khai Shien
- Install Bookshelves
- Install Kitchen hooker
Designing the Bookshelves
5.
Woo Wen Jian
- Install Kitchen hooker
- Install Benches
Design the kitchen hooker and benches.
6.
Chan Pin Qi
-Bread Selling
-Sponsorship Finding
Documentation – A4 Report
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Ling Hui Sim
- Documentation – A4 Report
Prepare the L.C.A. diagrams
8.
Shirley Liew Qiao Li
- Bread Selling
- install benches
Manage accounting and A3 Poster
9.
Megan Chung Wei Jin
-Bread selling
-Took photos and
Documentation – A4 Report
10.
Lee Jo Yee
-Bread selling
-Install Bookshelves
Documentation - A4 Report
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The timeline of this project from planning to completion is showed below:
It will be a single event that takes place approximately a total of two months to complete. Works were progressively updated each week.
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With the purpose of raising funds and also getting the public’s attention towards the refugee, we decided to search for bakeries which are willing to provide us with breads and pastries to be sold out to the public. We approached Free Mori Bakery and they were willing to cooperate with us to give a helping hand to the children of the refugee center
They provided us with a variety of pastries for example The Bun Family which consists of
 Raisin Buns and Chocolate-filled Buns
 Butter-glazed Buns
 Marble Milk Buns
 Polo buns
 Mille Danish and
 even small packets of Chocolate Chip Cookies.
After obtaining and packing the stocks on a Tuesday morning, we divided ourselves into small groups and went to different places to sell the pastries. The places that we went to were Taylor’s College, Inti College, area around SS15, Sunway University and of course, our very own Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus. While selling the breads, we also asked for donations from the public while showing them information flyers about this education center. This fund-raising sale went on for two days and we collected a total amount of RM1320.75. Please refer to page 50 for more detailed financial report.
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All members packing the pastries, ready for the sale
We sold the bread along the street and shop houses to raise fund for our project.
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I. DESIGNING PHASE We started planning and designing the bookshelves first as it was our main priority for the children. The books are not organized and are kept in the shabby bookshelves in a messy orientation as the sizes of the shelves are not big enough to fit all of the books. Initially we decided to design the bookshelves in the shape of a cruciform to accommodate different sizes of books and also light up the place aesthetically.
After visiting the education center a few more times we realize that the initial idea is not practical as the books are too many and the cruciform bookshelves do not provide enough space for them. We came up with the second idea which is to use wooden planks and build an extra wooden shelve on a wall in the classroom.
Initial draft of the design of the bookshelves
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Other than the bookshelves, we also designed some benches for the children to sit on outside of the education center. We used wooden planks as the material to make the bench and also rubber tyres to elevate the bench from the ground.
Front elevation of the shelf
Side elevation of the shelf
Draft of the design of the benches
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Final design of the benches
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The last furniture that we designed was the broom holders. We came up with the idea of using wooden planks as the base to drill the hooks to hold the brooms and dustpans. To secure it to the wall, rubber tubes were used to tie the wooden plank to the hook on the wall. Latches were also installed to further secure the broom holder.
The draft for the design of the broom holders.
Final design of the broom holder
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II. PREPARING PHASE – MATERIAL SEARCHING
In order to build the bookshelves, benches and broom holder, we needed wooden pallets as our main building material. Luck was in our hands when we successfully obtained the sponsorship for these wooden pallets from a recycling center in Bukit Beruntung.
Members moving the wooden pallets from the lorry into their cars.
Members visiting the recycling center to get the wooden planks. Shown above are the wooden planks that the recycling center provided.
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We went to the wooden pallets factory which is situated at Kuala Kubu Baru, Selangor to get the sponsored materials for our bookshelves.
A week after obtaining the wooden planks, we started planning and building the bookshelves and the benches. We booked the campus’s workshop which has all the facilities that we needed to make the furniture. Mr.Ooi contributed a lot by assisting us with the carpentry work and also by teaching us how to use the various machines in the workshop. It took us 3 days to finish all of the carpentry work which included sawing, sanding and also shellac works.
Members getting to work in the workshop
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III. TRANSPORTING PHASE
After completing the carpentry work, we booked a day with the principle of the education center to go set up the furnitures. Early in the morning on that day, 4 of our members, Preston Liew, Lee Jo Yee, Woo Wen Jian and Yuan Kai Shien drove their cars to help with the transportation of our materials to the education centre. First, we set off to Nicolas Wong’s house to collect the tyres for the benches which are temporarily kept there.
Members were sanding the surface of the wood
Tyres that were piled into a member’s car
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After loading the tyres into the car, we headed off to campus to collect the wooden planks to set up the bookshelves.
Members were moving the wooden planks from the workshop into the cars.
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IV. INSTALLING PHASE
After loading all the wood into the car, we set off to the education center to start our work. We started unloading the wood and tyres to the main entrance of the education center where an open space is located. We set up the bookshelves first by fitting the slots into the frame of the shelf and then fastening them with hammer and nails. After the bookshelf was set up, we moved it into the classroom and secured it to the wall.
Group members setting up the bookshelf.
Group members assemblying the bookshelf.
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Group members figuring out the best way to fix the shelves
End product of the shelf
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The next furniture that we set up was the broom holder. Holes were drilled into the walls to install the hooks first before tying and securing the broom holder to the wall.
Members securing the broom holder to the wall.
Members filling holes in the wall with the putty filler.
End product of the broom holders. It is elevated from the ground with multiple hooks to keep the brooms and dustpans organized.
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The next furniture that we installed was the Ikea shelf which was to be placed in the principal’s room.
Members trying to fix the shelves with the help of the Ikea user guide.
Members trying to fix the shelf onto the wall with the help of the principal himself.
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The last furniture that we installed was the benches. This requires more work as the tyres were hard to drill in. We successfully set up both benches by the entrance in the end.
Members trying to drill the nails into the tyres to secure them together.
First bench that was installed on the right side of the entrance.
Second bench that was installed on the left side of the entrance.
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The floor of the education center is damaged with many holes in it which might cause the children to fall when they run around. In order to fix this problem, we have decided to buy cement to fill up the holes in the floor. We used the money raised from the selling of breads to buy the cement. Two of our members, Yuan Kai Shien and Benny Tan went to transport the stocks of cement from the factory to the education center to be applied onto the floor.
Transferring the cement from the factory to the education center.
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However, the kind people from the education center volunteered to help with the cement work. After the cement work was completed, the floor is smoother and flatter, creating a safer environment for the children to study in.
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Below is the account recording the amount of money that we have spent throughout the project.
We have raised a total of RM1341.70 and spent an amount of RM708 throughout the project on materials, transportation and others. We have decided to donate the rest of the money, in amount of RM633.70 to the organization in trust them to put into good use.
Type
Description
Amount (RM)
Fundraising
Bread Sales
667.3
Donation
Cash
674.4
TOTAL
1341.7
RM
RM
Cost of goods sold:
Bread Sales
1150.0
less Cost Price
482.7
667.3
add Revenue
Donation
674.4
1341.7
less Expenses
Hardware
151.0
Plywood
47.0
Cement
180.0
IKEA Book Shelf
210
Petrol Fees
120
708.0
633.7
Grand account:
Budget table:
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Type
Product/ Description
Quantity
Cost (RM)
Total (RM)
Hardware
1’’ x 2’’ Wood
2
4.0
8.0
Hardware
Sand Disc
10
0.6
6.0
Hardware
JCP Disc
2
3.5
7.0
Hardware
Nail
2
0.5
1.0
Hardware
Nail
4
1.75
7.0
Hardware
Sand paper
5
1.0
5.0
Hardware
Wire
2
1.5
3.0
Hardware
Hammer
1
18.0
18.0
Hardware
D-Bit
1
4.5
4.5
Hardware
Wood Finishes
1
50.0
50.0
Hardware
L Bracket
1
19.0
19.0
Hardware
L Bracket(Small)
4
1.5
6.0
Hardware
L Bracket(Black)
3
1.5
4.5
Hardware
Woodfiller
1
4.0
4.0
Hardware
3’’ Screw
1
3.0
3.0
Hardware
¾’’ Screw
1
2.0
2.0
Hardware
Wall Plug
1
1.0
1.0
Hardware
Hook
2
1.0
2.0
Hardware
Plywood
5
9.4
47.0
Hardware
Cement
10
18.0
180.0
Furniture
IKEA Book Shelf
1
210.0
210.0
Expenses
Petrol Fees
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120.0
120.0
TOTAL
708.0
Expenses table - Hardware:
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Place
Type
Contribution
Free Mori Bakery House
Provide breads for charity drive in cost price.
INTI Subang Campus Community (SS15)
Support the charity drive and also make donations to contribute in this project.
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Sunway University Community
Taylor’s University Community
Taylor’s Subang College Community (SS15)
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Anonymous met in Taylor’s College.
Personally donated RM500 to our project and requested to be anonymous.
Shop lots around Subang area
Showing their support in the charity drive.
Sponsor and provide us the non-functioning, end-of-life tyres.
Sponsor wooden pallets for us.
Mr.Fendi
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Provide professional knowledge for form work designs and carpentry work.
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We have taken efforts in this project. However, it would not have been possible without the kind support and help of many individuals and communities. We would like to express our deepest appreciation to all those who provided us the possibility to complete this project.
Special thanks of gratitude we give to the lecturer, Mrs Salvi whose contribution in stimulating suggestions and encouragement helped us to coordinate the project especially in writing this report. Furthermore, many thanks go to the colleagues who helped a lot in each other to finalize this project within a limited time frame.
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A) Not enough storage for books and stack of different height of books above the existing bookshelves
Solution: Build an adjustable bookshelf, which can fit different heights of
books according to demand
Material used: Timber, Screws
Longer books are being stacked up the top of the bookshelves, as each slot of the bookshelves is not enough high.
An additional shelf is added to a corner of the classroom.
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B) Poor condition of flooring
Solution: Providing cement for the local community for building a new layer
of floor by selling bread for funds.
Material used: Cement, sand and water
Uneven floor
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After
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C) Disorganized of cleaning tools behind the classroom, affects the hygiene of the
place.
Solution: Provide a hanging rack for locating the cleaning tools to avoid
touching the ground.
Material used: Timber, steel hook, rubber tube
Cleaning tools are placed on the floor with the rubbish scattered all over thloor. The cleaning tools are all in dirty condition even after washed.
The solution was to cover up the holes of the floor. Therefore, we raised funds to buy the cement for the flooring work.
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D) Plain entrance of the school
Solution: Provide a bench for the students to play with and sit on while waiting for
their parents.
Material used: Timber, tire
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E) Insufficient space for locating longer file, being stacked horizontally in the
existing cupboard, hard to take out.
Solution: Buy an IKEA bookshelf that hang on the wall, which can be
adjustable to fit the length of the files.
Material used: IKEA bookshelves
The files are being stacked horizontally, making it hard to take.
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Disorganized files in the shelves
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We have had the opportunity to do this community service helping the refugees for the last several weeks. We had never really done this kind of service before, so we knew that this was our opportunity to do some community service to help others. We have found through the experience that we really like to do this project, because in the near future we will probably volunteer on our own, rather than doing it for a class.
Doing service projects is a great way to get involved with the community. There are always people and businesses looking for help, and it is usually easy to find a way to help. When we had to do volunteer services for the refugees, we were excited because we had never really volunteered for a long period of time. It was very interesting, because it actually made us feel like a better person for helping someone in the community.
Moreover, we learnt new problem solving skill where we apply in the refugee school in order to improve their learning environment. Those children are so kind and talented. They deserve a better place to study. We, a group of passionate architecture students have found the right time to pay back to the community. We apply our knowledge in analysis and then design workable furniture to improve their quality of life. I learnt that it is important to observe surrounding before come out with a design. The design will be more relevant to the site if you know exactly what the site’s condition is and also what the user's needs.
Furthermore, we have learnt that this is a project that brings the aim to further develop students’ community and team-working skills. These skills are crucial in developing the students’ good professional design practice in the future. As an active member of the community, students are inspirited to deepen their construal towards their environment and realize their responsibility towards it. By identifying community cognate issues around them, students are required to come up with solutions utilizing the most of their ingeniousness which may be of tremendous avail in solving authentic- world challenges in the future.
Overall, we feel that doing this project only better ourselves, and it helps others. It is a great way to support a community as well as meet new people, and to help out others.
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We feel that everyone should do more community services, and for something that they are passionate about. We were glad we got the chance to do this project, because we feel better about ourselves knowing that we helped others, and we look forward to many more opportunities like this.
A group photo with the school principal, Mr. Joseph.
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Others:
7. https://www.facebook.com/refugefortherefugees
8. http://www.masterpeace.org/blogs/post/refuge_for_the_refugees_the_girl_who_believed_she_could_make_a_difference
9. http://refugefortherefugees.blogspot.com/2012/06/refuge-for-refugees.html
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