CEGE0021 – Civil Engineering in Practice
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CEGE0021 – Civil Engineering in Practice
Sustainable Infrastructure
Coursework (set on 22th January and due on 26th Feburary 2026 @5pm)
Conduct a simple LCA of the offshore wind turbine as shown in the weekly hands-on exercise and prepare a technical LCA report for the exercise offshore wind turbine study. LCA technical report must be prepared individually and submitted via Turnitin.
In addition to the report submission, you are required to submit the excel file of your LCA calculation via Turnitin. Your report needs to be completed without being referenced to the excel file.
Report must contain no more than 2000 words (excluding tables, figures and references) and include the following points:
1. Introduce the case study briefly and provide key information related to LCA
methods including functional unit, system boundary, key data, data sources and environmental impact indicators used.
2. What are the key findings from your LCA study?
In this section you should describe the key factors that contribute to the environmental impacts and present the findings with tables and graphs. At least two different types of environmental impact need to be considered.
3. How can the results help you improve your design to reduce the environmental impacts of the offshore wind turbine?
Based on the above section, you need to change the key factors in your excel based LCA model to see how the environmental impacts might change and discuss the possible solutions to reduce the environmental impact if you were to redesign the system. You are asked to include justification on any changes made, and present your findings from the redesign and compare them to the initial findings.
4. Discuss key assumptions and limitation in the case study of offshore wind
turbine. Be specific with the assumptions and limitations in the context of the case study, not generic ones.
For reports over the word limit, a penalty of five marks will be applied.
References: Take care to cite any sources of information used in preparing your report. A full list of references must be included at the end of the assignment and cross-referenced to those in the body of the work using the Harvard referencing system.
Marking Rubric
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Key information |
20% |
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Key findings |
25% |
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Improving your design |
25% |
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Limitation and assumption |
20% |
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General (presentation, references, grammar and spellings) |
10% |
GenAI Guidance
This coursework is classed as Category 2 coursework, and as such you may use generative AI tools in an assistive role, but the use of AI is neither necessary nor part of the learning process. Specifically, you may use AI tools for the following tasks:
• Identifying and summarising relevant documents.
• Proofreading content.
You may not use AI tools for the following tasks:
• Generation of primary data (e.g. estimating any environmental impacts, or other inputs to the LCA excel model).
• Automating any of the analysis.
• Writing sections of primary text.
• Generating graphs and tables
A statement on your use of AI tools must be included/completed with your submission.
Example simple acknowledgement:
I further confirm that I DID/DID NOT (delete as appropriate) make use of Generative AI in the preparation of my coursework submission. A detailed overview of my usage is given below:
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2026-02-10
Sustainable Infrastructure