Civil tech scenarios

CIVIL TECHNOLOGY

PAT – Possible scenarios


Scenario 1

Most houses in South Africa are not built to withstand harsh winter months. As a result the average household consumes approximately 40% of its electrical energy on heating living spaces or make use of dangerous methods to heat living spaces.

The balance of this energy is consumed on heating water used for bathing or showering, cooking and lighting. A large percentage of this energy is lost through convection.

Identify and investigate a situation in the home where energy lost can be minimized through.

Grade 10: The floors

Grade 11: The roof

Grade 12: Inside the house

Develop and produce a product or building construction method which will conserve energy.

Scenario 2:

You are staying in a four room township house. You have just bought a second-hand car. Crime in your area has reached an alarming scale. For your car to be save you need to build a garage.

Grade 10: Design and build a garage.

Grade 11: Burglary is still taking place. Design and add a room to the garage.

Grade 12: Add plumbing and electricity to the building.


Scenario 3:

Grade 10: There are many disabled people living in houses which do not provide for their particular circumstances. Design and make an aid or piece of furniture to suit the needs of a disabled person whom you have interviewed. This design must improve the quality of life of the disabled person.



Scenario 4:

Grade 11: Flooding in informal settlements and devastating fires that render many people homeless causes many challenges for municipalities to provide emergency temporary shelters.
1. Identify and investigate possible solutions to address this problem.

Choose one of the following:

a) An enquiry into possible alternative and new building materials or
b) An enquiry into construction methods for emergency housing units that are easily erected dismantled and stored.

2. Describe the situation you are investigating and produce a product or construction method which adequately address the problem or need.

Scenario 5:

Grade 12: The client for whom you are making kitchen cupboards requests you to make a cutlery box to fit into the top draw of one of the units. The cutlery box must be manufactured in such a way that it can to removed from the draw and be carried easily. It must be able to carry twelve desert spoon, 12 teaspoon, 12 knives and 12 forks.