Environmental Management for Construction
Description
Having completed this module the learner should understand the main environmental challenges facing society and know his/her role and responsibilities as a practitioner in the built environment area. It gives the learner an opportunity to develop environmental management skills relating to the construction process and to buildings for human occupation. The learner should develop a degree of consciousness that due regard for the natural environment is taken into account in all of his or her professional and personal actions.
Learning Outcomes
Explain the concepts of environmental sustainability, biodiversity and sustainable development.
Identify the causes and effects of the main and pressing global, trans-boundary and local environmental problems and identify and discuss the main established and potential solutions to such problems
Characterise in a general way in the built environment the main types of water, air and solid waste pollution affecting Ireland, including the sources, transmission routes and effects
Discuss the main international agreements and national environmental protection legislation.
Identify and solve environmental problems relating to construction and the internal and external built environment.