7. Environmental Analysis

Pavegen tiles

Pavegen, as a further sustainable power supply for wind and solar power, may make advantage of floor space that is more accessible than roofs and generate electricity from people's movement than from sunlight (Smart tiles harness the power of footsteps | Engineers Australia n.d.). These Pavegen tiles (UK based) or Kinetic tiles generates energy when people move on it. The basic idea is to frame these tiles taking the 8m offset from the 45 sqm proposed site area as the number of pedestrians around the area are 90% per day. Around 242 tiles can be fit on the ground around the sculpture which helps to generate energy from the visitors moving around the sculpture. This further can be used to light up the education board placed around the site to promote education about the renewable energy generated by the sculpture. These tiles when calculated have the potential to generate 2.67 KWh of energy annually.

7. Environmental Analysis

To model the complete life cycle of a product (be it from cradle to grave or from "cradle to cradle") and to assess its influence on the environment across the supply chain, LCA calculations will be aimed at. As a result, LCA is not a designing process but measures its influence on the environment (de Pauw, Karana & Kandachar,2013). With Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) we can examine individual building components or whole buildings' environmental impacts throughout life. This encompasses the manufacturing, transit, operational impacts, maintenance, demolition, and disposal of a construction product or building after the end of its operating life (Lamnatou et al.,2014). The amount of energy utilized to create a product is embodied energy. The more a material is typically processed, the higher it is. Lower embodied energy is helpful to the environment because it has a lesser impact on the life of a material. At all stages of the life cycle, energy use and the associated greenhouse - gas emissions can emerge. The emphasis on energy reduction in buildings has traditionally been on decreasing operational energy that takes place in the post-construction stage and in the past is considered far more crucial as decreasing embodied energy. (e.g. substituting materials such as stainless steel, which need considerable energy in materials including timber, that involve significantly less amount of energy, etc.) But it became increasingly clear that the energy incorporated in each phase of the construction cycle but concentrated first in pre-construction and building stages must be substantial.

Figure 14: Image shows the utilization of the energy from the Kinetic tile