SMT201 AY2019-20T1 EX2 Darren Tan Yong Heng

Take-home Exercise 2

In this exercise, you are tasked to identify a location suitable for building a national Communicable Disease Quarantine Centre. The selected site must be located at Gombak planning subzone, with a contiguous area of at least 10,000m2 and it must meet the following decision factors:

• Economic factor: The selected site should avoid steep slope. This is because construction at steep slope tends to involve a lot of cut-and-fill and will lend to relatively higher development costs.

• Accessibility factor: The selected site should be close to existing local roads, namely: service roads and tracks. This is to ensure easy transportation of building materials during the construction stage.

• Health risk factor: The selected site should be away from population i.e. housing areas and offices in order to avoid disease spreading to the nearby population.

• Natural conservation factor: The selected site should be away from forested land, park, and water.

Maps depicting the target features within Gombak - Roads, Buildings, Natural Areas and Slope

The following map images depict factors taken into consideration for building a national Communicable Disease Quarantine Centre within Gombak. The four key factors are as follows - Accessibility Factor (Roads), Economic Factor (Slope), Health Risk Factor (Buildings) and Natural Conservation Factor

Accessibility Factor (Roads)

The task requires us to choose existing local routes namely: service roads and tracks. Hence, the image above depicts service and track roads within Gombak.