What is a sustainable development? Most people misunderstood that sustainable development is a green building including me. Through the lecture of sustainable development by Ms. Liew, I have understand the concept of sustainable development can be interpreted in many different ways, but at its core is an approach to development that looks to balance different, and often competing, needs against an awareness of the environmental, social and economical limitations we face as a society (Sd-commissioning, 2011).
Not only that, I also learnt that sustainable development is not only about environmental friendly but also about the local economics, community social and movement of people into that area. A sustainable development is able to improve the economics of the town as the existing developments will increase the local employment which mean increasing of job opportunity to the local as well as balancing the community. The distinctive design of development will attract the buyer and people to move into this area. Therefore, the movement and accessibility of development is important because it is allow people to move in or visiting in convenient way. However, sustainable development is not only meet the human current needs but also should not sacrifice the needs of future generation.
Figure 1: The concept of sustainable development (Credit to Ms. Liew)
Green building is getting popular in Malaysia but the concept of sustainable development is not being applied in the development project in Malaysia as most of them do not understand about it. However, there is not much of professional or specialist in the green building industry therefore I thought that it is a good chance for me to study this lesson from UK and it is useful when I'm working in this industry in Malaysia. During proposing a development, I feel hard to propose a sustainable development by following the planning policy and because there is a lot of restriction for the reservation land. Yet with the concept of sustainable development given by Ms. Liew, it allows me to design a sustainable development in an easier way which helps to me save a lot of time. It also allow me to focus more on the safety and environment matter during the design stage. For example, the river is located besides of subject land so during the construction period it may pollute the river. Therefore a solution to prevent pollution is needed during the planning stage. In this case, we can get assistance from Environment Agency, NIEA and SEPA to minimize the river pollution (Environment Agency, 2010).
References:
- Environment Agency, (2010). Working at construction and demolition sites: PPG6 Pollution Prevention Guidelines [online] Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/290139/pmho0412bwfe-e-e.pdf [Assessed 22 Jul. 2014].
- Sd-commission, (2014). What is sustainable development · Sustainable Development Commission. [online] Available at: http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/pages/what-is-sustainable-development.html [Accessed 22 Jul. 2014].
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