Introduction of Built Environment

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DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

• Built Environment
• Definition, Need and Purpose
• Mr. Ramprasad Kumawat
• (M.Tech)

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Built Environment

• Built Environment Definition, need and purpose
• Elements of Built Environment
• a) Homes, Offices and Commercial Buildings, Parks
  and Recreation Centers (Civil Engineering is the
  basis for developing the built-environment)
• b) Transportation systems consisting of roads,
  railway tracks, culverts, and Airport runways

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• c) Water resources and water systems
• d) Infrastructure mainly consisting of buildings,
  bridges, Tunnels, dams, canals, sewer systems
• e) Ground support systems

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Built Environment Definition, need and purpose

• It is everything human created, modified, or
  constructed, human made, arranged, or maintained.
• It is the creation of human minds and the result
  of human purposes it is intended to serve human
  needs, wants, and values.

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• It is created to help us deal with, and to
  protect us from, the overall environment, to
  mediate or change this environment for our
  comfort and well-being.
• Each and all of the individual elements
  contribute either positively or negatively to the
  overall quality of environments both built and
  natural and to human-environment relationships.

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• The term built environment refers to the
  human-made surroundings that provide the setting
  for human activity, ranging in scale from
  buildings and parks or green space to
  neighborhoods and cities that can often include
  their supporting infrastructure, such as water
  supply or energy networks.

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• The built environment is a material, spatial, and
  cultural product of human labor that combines
  physical elements and energy in forms for living,
  working, and playing.
• It has been defined as the human-made space in
  which people live, work, and recreate on a
  day-to-day basis

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Human Needs

• To survive, all organisms must satisfy certain
  basic needs. Humans are no exception.
• The most basic set of needs are
  physiologicalthose required for proper
  functioning of the body and mind.

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General types of Needs The Six Levels of Human Needs Ways the Needs are Manifested in the Built Environment
PHYSIOLOGICAL NEED 1) Subsistence Air, Water, Food, And Shelter, Economics and Technology
PHYSIOLOGICAL NEED 2) Reproduction Kinship, Marriage
PHYSIOLOGICAL NEED 3) Security and Bodily Protection Shelter, Territoriality Medical, Police, and Fire Protection, Weaponry, Law and Government
PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL NEEDS 4) Protection from social Dysfunction of Insult Ethics , Sense of Community, territoriality Mental Health Service
PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL NEEDS 5) Protection From Anxiety and Need of Belong The Arts , Religion Cosmology , Philosophy, Myth Magic Community Kinship Territoriality
PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL NEEDS 6) Self Realization Freedom Responsibility Education, The Arts.
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•  Human needs can be physiological or social and
  are related to security, respect, and
  self-expression.
• People want their built environment to be
  aesthetically attractive and to be in an
  accessible place with a well-developed
  infrastructure, convenient communication access,
  and good roads, and the dwelling should also be
  comparatively cheap, comfortable, with low
  maintenance costs, and have sound and thermal
  insulation of walls.

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• People are also interested in ecologically clean
  and almost noiseless environments, with
  sufficient options for relaxation, shopping, fast
  access to work or other destinations, and good
  relationships with neighbors.

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Built Environment Purpose

• The built environment touches all aspects of our
  lives, encompassing the buildings we live in, the
  distribution systems that provide us with water
  and electricity, and the roads, bridges, and
  transportation systems we use to get from place
  to place.

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• It can generally be described as the man-made or
  modified structures that provide people with
  living, working, and recreational spaces.
• Creating all these spaces and systems requires
  enormous quantities of materials.

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• THANKS!