How Do The Consulting Engineers Deliver Sustainable Engineering Solutions?
The three pillars of sustainability, namely social, environmental and economic drive sustainable development. The consulting engineers have witnessed the marked transference between delivering the factual sustainable engineering solutions — both on account of the present-day world climate crisis and even for reasons like financial, legislative and morals. Innovative designs, new technologies and lower impact constructions are necessary for delivering sustainable development.
For the success of the construction projects, the consulting engineers suggest combining these methods and employ at the project site in Brisbane. All the methods combined ensure one sustainability pillar is not overpowering the other, and so the solutions are viable, equitable and bearable.
1. Social
Because of the large scale of engineering projects, there could be an impact on the local communities and stakeholders could encounter often-adverse effects and disrupt the lifestyle for many. Hence, it is particularly essential to be engaged with the stakeholders and communities early and often. With them, the consulting engineers consult about the clients’ needs along with the probable envisaged project’s outcome, and the type of benefits to accrue the entire locality. For instance, a new water pipeline installation will bring about improvements while securing water supply for the community, and ensure safe and clean water availability along with future development capacity.
2. Environment
Civil Engineering could deliver a few greatest social and environmental wins of the world, like clean water, but by nature, construction is having a high carbon footprint, along with material productions like concrete and steel, and using large energy-consuming equipment and plants. But for countering this, a huge emphasis is laid on reuse, reduction, construction materials recycling, and application of innovative thinking for framing out the methods for achieving this. It could take the form of recycled concrete for fill, reusing the excavated materials for trenchless installation and pipe bedding method to avoid the adverse environmental impact, as well as overall material usage reduction.
3. Economic
There is a possibility of short term and long term financial value, along with value from the positive climatic aspect change and societal change while delivering on the environmental and social pillars. By making use of the local supply chains, and being engaged with the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises brings up equitable cross-benefits for all the involved parties. Especially in the post-COVID time, this particular supply model will prove to be beneficial to the local economies, which the closures have hit hard. Even as stated above the reduction, reusing and recycling of the materials will lead to savings across the engineering projects for the involved parties. In the long run, when development is delivered in full cognizance of the environmental and social impacts — positive and negative, then it will lead to greater economic savings in the form of environmental recovery and societal advancements.
The chief aspect to meet all the current climatic crises and delivering sustainable development is the change in culture and attitude towards all the challenges. It is not possible for the engineers to just apply the sustainability “policy” as an afterthought to the designing process. As per the explanations of the consulting engineers, the engineer attempt to utilise the low carbon materials, and even depend on the newer technologies for achieving lower carbon construction. The consulting engineers follow the innovative and sustainable ways to work over the complete infrastructure projects cycle for meeting the human development goals for the present as well as future while stating the real meaning of Sustainable Development.
