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RBC WaterPark Place III, Toronto (Oxford Properties Group. (2014, November 24). Welcome to RBC WaterPark Place [Video]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxGd2Es2g6A

Sandbag housing in South Africa (https://www.pri.org/stories/2008-12-04/sandbag-housing-south-africa)

Smart, sustainable, or both?

We discussed the Edge in the lecture notes, and it was also featured in the TED x talk with Coen van Oostrom. Choose another building or project from the list of case studies provided. Discuss the building/project in terms of what makes it smart and sustainable. In what ways could it be improved? Is the building more smart than sustainable or vice versa?

Raman:I am going to focus on RBC WaterPark in Toronto. 
The modern Toronto workspace is going to RBC WaterPark Place. It is the evolution of efficient, sustainable building design as the city’s first LEED® Core and Shell Platinum office skyscraper. RBC WaterPark Place is a smart building in a smart position, with 360-degree vistas, intelligent facilities, and the first indoor tunnel PATH access to the waterfront. All of this takes place against the backdrop of a very brilliant horizon.

According to statements mentioned in the video, I believe that it is more of smart building and less of sustainable. It is smart because it has connected the devices of teh building in such a way that they can access to most of the things from the devices as well. One of the Presidents of the building mentioned that they have connected the devices and systems that gives them the access from communications, audios, visuals, energy use, lightening etc. let them to control the impact on the environment as well. For example- he said that before presentations in a meeting, they can set up the visuals, audios, temperature, lighting etc. beforehand that gives them utmost flexibility. It also promotes team works, co-orporation, connectivity etc. There is a space for the employees to get together as well as the work environment is open and flexible. 

The building was focused from the very beginning of its construction that helped them reduce tons of waste, carbon footprint, saving of energy would go in help thoroughout the life of building. Even, the materials used in the beginning of the construction were healthy that leads to healthy development further. So, to conclude the building is more smart than sustainable. 
Aman:
              My selected topic is RBC WaterPark Place III, Toronto. This project was done by Cisco. My case study was also related to cisco smart city which is why I found it interesting. The mission of this plan was to create a smart and environmentally sustainable city. The design of the city was made to meet some of the objectives, like connected workplace, increased co-operation, focus on innovation, and environmental sustainability. This project meets all of these objectives. Devices and systems were connected like the lighting, energy, communication, and audiovisual, all of the things could control and monitored. With the help of this design, energy is saved, wastage is saved and carbon footprint is decreased dramatically from the construction stage. The flexibility of the workplace as the systems and devices are interconnected which helps in controlling and adjusting the temperature of the workplace rooms, lighting, audiovisual, and other facilities makes the building smarter.
          This plan did not include more ideas for environmental safety as per the information video. They could use solar panels to save energy and generate their own. Smart parking could be used to find parking places in the parking easily which will decrease pollution from cars and save time, energy.
Jaskaran: 
Over 2 million people are living in one-room shanties built of scrap wood and metal sheets in South Africa’s townships. In South Africa, proper housing, or the lack thereof, is a crucial problem. However, an architect and a builder have devised a novel alternative. They were building houses out of sand that are both inexpensive and durable. EcoBeams, a firm that builds sandbag buildings, replaced brick and cement with sandbags for a modest $6000 investment (Smartcity , 2019). The purpose of a sandbag house is to save money and resources. Local materials were used, and what’s more surprising is that the sand was obtained from dunes approximately 100 meters away from the location, reducing shipping costs. It was also built with the cooperation of the community’s future residents, lowering expenses even more.  It is said to be a reliable, safe, and cost-effective method of offering inexpensive homes.
As we learned in class, smart buildings are those that employ networked technology to increase efficiency and save costs, while sustainable buildings lessen environmental impacts by reducing energy and resource use (Smart and sustainable buildings , 2021). So, in my opinion, this initiative is both smart and sustainable, but if I had to choose between the two, I would say that it is more sustainable than smart because it focuses on building houses with fewer resources, saving resources for the future, and providing people with reliable and safe housing. It also put an emphasis on cost-cutting by cutting down the transportation and human resource cost. 
Amrit:According to me the best option which fits under both the category of smart and sustainable is sandbag housing which has been introduced in Africa. Sandbags were been utilized by people for multiple purposes like making shields to protect themselves from bullets, prevent floods to come on land, etc. but no one realized it can come up as a savior to poor people in Africa. Sandbag housing came up with an idea to provide semi-homeless people with a house that is built of sandbags and is more reliable than the brick cemented place provided by the govt. the main motive of the company was to help such a section of society to uplift by providing them a nice place to live which is build considering all the ISS code of conduct for which they don’t even need to pay more. furthermore, when compared to alternative building supplies, sandbag building decreases carbon dioxide emissions by up to 95 percent. This is due to the fact that the materials are not processed before being used in building. Sandbag homes are not expensive to build, they don’t demand users to pay a large amount of money in form of their maintenance, they are not exposed to any sort of risk like fire & wind which makes them an excellent construction technique. So, through all such innovation, companies are able to construct a structure that is even more long-lasting than other construction structures. Although here technology is not that much involved, if the company introduced technology, there are high chances they can create even better sandbag housing development.