Environmental Sustainable Building Design and Construction (Published)
Global or national problems are rarely as discrete from one another as we might think. They are often, in fact, linked in complex ways. Both the emergence of global crises, and the policies put in place to address them, can and often do overlap in important ways. Such is the case with the global or national financial crisis which leads to recession in some cases and the broader ongoing global environmental crisis. Amidst this crisis, this paper examinesways of creating sustainable buildings, building design and construction (green buildings) which are structurally stable, functional and healthy for people to live and work in and however reducing carbon dioxide emission both regionally and nationally. Investigations clearly shows that Many natural resources and building materials require mining, processing, refining and ultimately manufacturing, transport and delivery before they are utilized in construction. The energy used during these processes is high and have greater risk of physical, health, financialand environmental implications at large. As a result the emergence of sustainable building, or green building, has brought about an awareness of what the building industry can do to curb high energy use, minimize waste, and create environments that are healthy and productive.
Keywords: Design, Energy, Green Building, Structurally Stable
Fuelless Generator: Comparison of Two Prototype Design (Published)
This research effort focus on comparison of two prototype designs, construction and performance evaluation of V-belt and direct coupling fuelless power generating set. Search for renewable energy is important as the fossil fuel depletion as been noticed. There are basically three ways of transmitting mechanical power from one point to another. Belt and pulley drive, Gear and chain and direct coupling. The two power generating sets were locally constructed at the Federal College of Agriculture, Ibadan Nigeria. These researches technically investigate two out of the three ways of mechanical power transmission system (Belt & Pulley and Direct Coupling Design). The evaluation of the work shows that coupling design of power fuelless generating is better than Belt and Pulley design of the generating set with efficiency range of 0% -89.9% for direct coupling while 0% – 73.23% for V-belt design.
Keywords: Design, Fuelless Generator, Prototype