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The University of Turin has over 100 buildings, 66,000 students, and 3,500 staff consuming over 23.48 GWh of electricity and 2082 TOE of gas annually. GreenUnito and UniToGO were created to promote sustainability on campus. GreenUnito is an online hub collecting sustainability projects, reports, and datasets. UniToGO coordinates sustainability initiatives and the Environmental Sustainability Action Plan. GreenUnito publishes energy consumption open data to facilitate research and improve transparency, awareness, and decision making. The ComfortSense research project uses sensors and apps to monitor indoor comfort and engage users in sustainability.
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Introduction to objective, scope and outcome the subject
Chapter 2
Introduction: Scope and Specialization of Civil Engineering, Role of civil Engineer in Society, Impact of infrastructural development on economy of country.
Chapter 3
Surveying: Object Principles & Types of Surveying; Site Plans, Plans & Maps; Scales & Unit of different Measurements.
Linear Measurements: Instruments used. Linear Measurement by Tape, Ranging out Survey Lines and overcoming Obstructions; Measurements on sloping ground; Tape corrections, conventional symbols. Angular Measurements: Instruments used; Introduction to Compass Surveying, Bearings and Longitude & Latitude of a Line, Introduction to total station.
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Chapter 6
Environmental Engineering: Environmental Pollution, Environmental Acts and Regulations, Functional Concepts of Ecology, Basics of Species, Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Hydrological Cycle; Chemical Cycles: Carbon, Nitrogen & Phosphorus; Energy Flow in Ecosystems.
Water Pollution: Water Quality standards, Introduction to Treatment & Disposal of Waste Water. Reuse and Saving of Water, Rain Water Harvesting. Solid Waste Management: Classification of Solid Waste, Collection, Transportation and Disposal of Solid. Recycling of Solid Waste: Energy Recovery, Sanitary Landfill, On-Site Sanitation. Air & Noise Pollution: Primary and Secondary air pollutants, Harmful effects of Air Pollution, Control of Air Pollution. . Noise Pollution Harmful Effects of noise pollution, control of noise pollution, Global warming & Climate Change, Ozone depletion, Greenhouse effect
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1. Palancharmy, Basic Civil Engineering, McGraw Hill publishers.
2. Satheesh Gopi, Basic Civil Engineering, Pearson Publishers.
3. Ketki Rangwala Dalal, Essentials of Civil Engineering, Charotar Publishing House.
4. BCP, Surveying volume 1
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- 8. • • • • • •
- 9. UNIVERSITY OF TURIN AT A GLANCE An Overview • Over one hundred buildings (514387 m2 ) • Over 66.000 Students • Over 3500 Academic, administrative staffs Building Stock And Users • Over 23.48 GWh / 7.000.000€ ( Electric ) • Over 2082 TOE / 2.000.000 € ( Gas ) Annual Energy Consumption With laissez-faire and price atomic Ecology's Uneconomic But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic Kenneth E. Boulding GREENUNITO AND UNITOGO GreenUnito GreenUnito is an Online Hub to lead the transition to a Sustainable Smart Green University. GreenUnito is a web platform which collects and amplifies every project on sustainability. GreenUnito is an OpenDatabase for thesis&paper, reports, datasets and bestpractices UniToGO: UniTo Green Office UniToGO is an interdisciplinary network composed by Professors, Researcher, administrative staff and students for sustainability. UniToGo will coordinate and promote every activities and initiatives about sustainability. UniToGO is the main promotor of the "Environmental Sustainability Action Plan" www.green.unito.it
- 10. www.green.unito.it THE STRUCTURE OF THE UNITO GREEN OFFICE Governance of the University (Dean and Board of Directors) University Strategic Plan UniToGO – UniTo Green Office Sustainability CEO Communication and simplification ViceDean Technical Directors (Management, logistics and assets) Unesco Chair and Sustainability Report representative Working Group representatives GreenUnito representative Working Groups Each group has an academic, a technical, a researcher representative and several students involved for thesis projects. Green Public Procurement Energy Mobility Food Waste Environmental Sustainability Action Plan City of Turin Piedmont Region Public Utilities Waste Public Transport Water National and international Network for sustainability Local organization And NGO’s External Relations Schools and Departments Research Center Business And Startup Incubator Students’ and Political Organizations Internal Relations
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- 12. GREENUNITO, OPENDATA AND INTERACTIVE GRAPHS Lingotto ( Dental School ) 1,7 GWh - 127,5 KWh / m2 Biotechnology 3,5 GWh - 205,3 KWh / m2 Campus Luigi Einaudi 5,2 GWh - 91,3 KWh / m2 Management Support Tools • Historical Consumption and Trend Monitoring • Day/Night consumption analysis • Straightforward anomalies identification Competition among different departments • Comparison among different years and buildings • Possibility to directly download data and graphs • Involment of Departments’ staff in sustainable management Users’ Engagement • Improvement of users’ (students, researcher and staff) awareness about sustainability • Easy understanding of impacts of wrong everyday habitudes. • Easy access data for students’ thesis Annual consumption per m2 Building Annual Consumption Months Building Montlhy Consumption
- 13. Fixed Sensors & Wearable Temperature, Humidity and Co2 Concentration COMFORTSENSE RESEARCH PROJECT USERS’ ENGAGEMENT Mobile App Allow users to send Comfort Feedback & to Visualize historical dataMeshlium and Ibeacon Occupancy sensors and Indoor Geolocalization www.craftinglab.it/comfortsense
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