These lessons will provide you with background information and worked examples relevant to the assignment. Identifying resources Whether you’re involved in manufacturing, warehousing, sales, or on-site installation, you will use a wide range of resources at work. Let’s take a typical example of a flooring installation, and look at the resources used in the process of laying a tongue and groove solid timber floor onto a concrete subfloor. Timber strip flooring materials and energy requirements – is a breakdown of the materials and energy requirements of a typical strip flooring installation. Materials used in the installation: strip flooring as specified by the client – timber battens to fix to the concrete subfloor – plastic sheeting and duct tape to install the vapour barrier – flooring and concrete nails for fixing the strip flooring and battens – construction adhesive for gluing the flooring to the battens. – items used: ‘consumable’ saw blade used to cut the timber – cartridges for the actuated nail gun used to fire concrete nails through the – battens and into the concrete subfloor. energy used directly in the installation process: ‘Process’ electricity to power the saw and vacuum cleaner – compressed air to the nail gun used to fix the flooring to the battens. – energy used to support the installation process: ‘Non-process’ electricity to power lighting, appliances and other facilities fuel for the truck to take the products from the warehouse to the jobsite. You can see from these lists that we are already getting a very big collection of materials and energy sources, and we haven’t even started on the resources involved in manufacturing the products.
These lessons will provide you with background information and worked examples relevant to the assignment. Identifying resources Whether you’re involved in manufacturing, warehousing, sales, or on-site installation, you will use a wide range of resources at work. Let’s take a typical example of a flooring installation, and look at the resources used in the process of laying a tongue and groove solid timber floor onto a concrete subfloor. Timber strip flooring – materials and energy requirements is a breakdown of the materials and energy requirements of a typical strip flooring installation. Materials used in the installation: strip flooring – as specified by the client timber battens – to fix to the concrete subfloor plastic sheeting and duct tape – to install the vapour barrier flooring and concrete nails – for fixing the strip flooring and battens construction adhesive – for gluing the flooring to the battens. ‘consumable’ items used: saw blade – used to cut the timber cartridges for the actuated nail gun – used to fire concrete nails through the battens and into the concrete subfloor. ‘Process’ energy used directly in the installation process: electricity – to power the saw and vacuum cleaner compressed air – to the nail gun used to fix the flooring to the battens. ‘Non-process’ energy used to support the installation process: electricity to power lighting, appliances and other facilities fuel for the truck to take the products from the warehouse to the jobsite. You can see from these lists that we are already getting a very big collection of materials and energy sources, and we haven’t even started on the resources involved in manufacturing the products.
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