{"id":2657,"date":"2023-06-27T10:13:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T10:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fairconditioning.org\/fc-activity\/?post_type=activity&#038;p=2657"},"modified":"2024-02-05T12:32:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T12:32:53","slug":"drawing-analogies-on-carbon-footprint-of-a-designed-residence-and-a-self-built-house-in-an-informal-settlement","status":"publish","type":"activity","link":"https:\/\/fairconditioning.org\/fc-activity\/activity\/drawing-analogies-on-carbon-footprint-of-a-designed-residence-and-a-self-built-house-in-an-informal-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing Analogies on Carbon Footprint of a Designed Residence and a Self Built House in an Informal Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-2\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow\">\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Objective<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>To develop an understanding of the carbon footprint of different materials and be well versed with footprint calculators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Outcome<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Students will develop a perspective on selecting building materials based on the carbon footprint. Students will also realise the climate injustice created due to high carbon emissions by a small part of the population of our society.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Requirements<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Laptop, online Carbon footprint calculator<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prerequisites<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;The facilitator should be trained on using a carbon footprint calculator for building materials. Selection of two houses: formal designed house and a self-built house, having almost the same number of inhabitants and residents.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Procedure<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 1<\/strong>: List down the approximate quantity of building materials used in construction of one formally built 2 bedroom&nbsp; house. (eg: Cement, Sand, iron, Fired Bricks, glass, wood, electrical equipments and electricity usage)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 2<\/strong>:&nbsp; List down the approximate quantity of building materials used in construction of a house in an informal settlement with the same number of occupants.(eg: Bricks, Corrugated cement sheet, cement, sand, cement, wood, electrical equipments and electricity usage)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 3<\/strong>: Using the footprint calculator, calculate the footprint of each listed material and equipment and the total footprint for both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 4<\/strong>: document the findings, reflect and reason on the carbon footprint values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 5<\/strong>: Identify and document at least 3 lifestyle habits or equipment\/materials of the residents of formal and informal housing that is a major contributor of carbon footprint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">References<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>1.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.footprintcalculator.org\/\">https:\/\/www.footprintcalculator.org\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/footprintreporter.com\/cBalance\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/footprintreporter.com\/cBalance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Carbon Footprint Reporter<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonfootprint.com\/calculator.aspx\">https:\/\/www.carbonfootprint.com\/calculator.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Objective To develop an understanding of the carbon footprint of different materials and be well versed with footprint calculators. Outcome Students will develop a perspective on selecting building materials based on the carbon footprint. Students will also realise the climate injustice created due to high carbon emissions by a small part of the population of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"activity_subject":[125],"academic_year":[68],"complexity":[60],"content_tags":[393,412,416,457],"activity_type":[371],"activity_duration":[174],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairconditioning.org\/fc-activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity\/2657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairconditioning.org\/fc-activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairconditioning.org\/fc-activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/activity"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairconditioning.org\/fc-activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairconditioning.org\/fc-activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fairconditioning.org\/fc-activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity\/2657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2917,"href":"https:\/\/fairconditioning.org\/fc-activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity\/2657\/revisions\/2917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairconditioning.org\/fc-activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"activity_subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairconditioning.org\/fc-activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity_subject?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"academic_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairconditioning.org\/fc-activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/academic_year?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"complexity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairconditioning.org\/fc-activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/complexity?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"content_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairconditioning.org\/fc-activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content_tags?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"activity_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairconditioning.org\/fc-activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity_type?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"activity_duration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairconditioning.org\/fc-activity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity_duration?post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}