Sustainability Movement - Christian Teaching Institute 2019

October 31, 2019

A team of volunteers from Dar Al Handasah - Beirut office Joined the Sustainability Movement 2019 Campaign to work on a Sustainability & Environmental awareness project at "CTI - Christian Teaching Institute" . In the preparation for the service day, the team spent plenty of time generating materials and meeting to provide the largest possible impact on the Students. The day of service started with an interactive presentation covering the main environmental and sustainability opportunities encountered on a daily basis, followed by a hands-on activity focusing on energy conservation at homes, the students where divided into five teams and they built up a passive cooling house model with a given budget. following this, sustainable bags were distributed to the students to encourage the movement of waste reduction by stopping the use of plastic bag . by the end of the day, the school principal and participating students received a certificate of participation.

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Students will be impacted this year

Intended impact of project

Reduced environmental impact
Improved occupant health & performance
Increased environmental & sustainability literacy

Impact of project

Environmental and habitat restoration
Energy and/or water conservation
Educated on sustainable skills and practices
Educated on sustainability knowledge

More impact of project

The day of service started with an interactive presentation which ensured the students have an understanding on the types of Pollution and how to THINK GREEN & ACT GREEN. the students then were distributed in to smaller groups to work on a hands on activities focusing on:
1. Creating a mural

2. Activity-passively cooled homes
the hands-on activity focusing on energy conservation at homes, the teams were requested to built up a passive cooling house model with a given budget.
Each group has an assortment of materials with priced costs such as white roof coating(1,000$), brick roofing($1,500), roof insulation($1,500), wall insulation($2,000), sunshade($1,500), and shade trees($500). These teams must stay within 4,000$ total budget the client has given you. A baseline house with No enhancements was reserved to simulate the classical inefficient homes.
A testing platform table was prepared with connected digital thermometers. Upon finishing the thermal enhancement, teams will place their proposed module houses in the allocated testing platform together with the baseline unenhanced module. A three minute heat emission (infrared Lamp) sun simulator is performed here indoor temperature is recorded before & after the experiment. By the end the volunteers will discuss the results and elaborate on each of the methods used to improve the thermal performance. The teams with Lower temperate rise is the winner.
Following this, sustainable bags were distributed to the students to encourage the movement of waste reduction by stopping the use of plastic bag .
by the end of the day, the school principal and participating students received a certificate of participation.