Nur Farhanah

  According to “District heating and cooling systems” (2013), it stated that ENGIE aims to relieve the needs of the public and conserve nature by reducing carbon dioxide emission. ENGIE earn recognition as the “world’s largest independent provider of urban cooling networks” and is slowly broadening its network to all over the world. Currently, they are managing 320 systems globally and can be seen in Paris, the USA and even in Malaysia. This article focuses on two systems, heating and cooling. The heating system focuses on warming up the building or city with the help of hot water and surcharge steam. However, the cooling network supplies cold water to the air conditioning system. Both systems help in conserving nature. The heating system uses available resources for heat generation while the cooling system uses lesser electricity and water and most importantly, releases lesser carbon dioxide.

ENGIE aims to conserve nature and relieve the needs of everyone through heating and cooling networks. Firstly, heating networks utilise mainly on resources that are available. Such as heat recuperates from wastewater. That heat will be dispersed through hot water. There are four important factors for the network. Secondly, cooling network supplies cool water to reduce the temperature of the buildings. There are different ways to retrieve cool water, one of them is by having a cooling tower at a manufacturing plant. The cooling network has a lot of benefits such as reducing the usage of water and electricity and at the same time reducing carbon emission. The heating network can be found in Italy, Bordeaux and Paris regions of France. Whereas cooling networks can be found in Malaysia,  Philippines and USA. There is an exception to Marseille, Spain and Lisbon, as they have both networks at the same location.

Dear Professor Brad My name is Nur Farhanah. I am writing this letter to introduce myself to you. I graduated from Nanyang Polytechnic in 2021, where I studied Electrical Engineering with Eco-Design. Currently, I am a student at Singapore Institute of Technology pursuing a degree in Sustainable Infrastructure Engineering (Building Services). Truthfully, I did not expect myself to continue studying as I am still unsure of what I want to do for my future. There are a lot of different types of communication skills. I believe that friendliness is one of my strengths in communication. Where honesty and kindness can help foster trust and understanding. A friendly tone can also encourage people to communicate with us. However, lack of confidence is my weakness in communication. I get nervous when I need to stand in front of the class and present. That affects my communication as I tend to blank out and not present fluently during the presentation. After which, I regret not being able to pre...

  How do you see communication and critical thinking impacting your future role as a leader in the workplace? Businesses in the US and UK suffered from a US$37 billion loss due to misunderstanding and poor communication caused by the employees. As a leader, we need to make sure that our employees are fluent in communication skills to prevent the incident from happening. Fluency can be one of the beneficial characteristics in the workplace. Employees who are good at communicating can get their ideas clearly to their colleagues and prevent misunderstanding. Those who are poor in communication can participate in communication skills training. At the same time, both the leaders and employees need to have good critical thinking. Critical thinking builds confidence in our communication. It is where we can logically connect ideas, scrutinize and evaluate arguments, find inconsistencies and errors in our work and the others. Critical thinking is not only important to the leaders but to the...

  “ Communication skills are an essential component in the education of  engineering students to facilitate not just students’ education but also to prepare  them for their future careers.”    Marc Riemer, Faculty of Engineering, Monash University (2007) Throughout our school years, we will be partnering with different course mates, allowing us to communicate with them. Most importantly, sharing and understanding our ideas will also help us prepare for our careers in the future. Hence, communication skills are an essential component in the education of engineering students. Nur Farhanah