Triple bottom line (TBL) is a field that depends on the mixing of three performances which are social, environmental and Economic. Since TBL has environmental and soil sides, that has made it hard to be specific on the means of measurements. For example, the financial side can be measured in dollars but the environmental and the social side cannot be measured by currency. TBL does not have common units for that reason (Slaper & Hall 2011).

Before stating any design process TBL should be considered by project owners or stakeholders. The project stakeholders must check the impact of TBL on their design process from the three performances. Sides. The first side as motioned above is the social side. The impacts of TBL social side are inertia rate, Female Currencies, family’s income, Poverty rate, crime rate and academic Education.

Measuring TBL for the social performances will be by offering new jobs for people who are not employed or who need new jobs. Measurement of TBL will also help in preventing the lack of jobs or unemployment. Moreover, people working and making money do not have to steal so that will be main reason behind reduction of crime rates. Also, offering jobs for academic people will encourage students in school to complete their education to acquire these jobs. Moreover, families will also be able to pay for their children education.

From the environmental side, TBL can be measured by considering multiple things such as carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere, hazardous waste management and project location. The main reason of increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is hidden in human activities such as cars smoke, industry trash. Also, the hazardous waste must be kept in place that far away from people and not affect the environment around it. The project location is an important consideration because the noise of the digging machines or building tools account for environmental pollution.

Considering TBL from the economic side will have multiple effectiveness on finances; for example, personal income, job growth and employment distribution by sector. When the personal income increases personal needs will also increase too. This helps to improve the area around the project and attract the people towards the project. Furthermore, raising job growth helps cause employment distribution by their sector and the stakeholders will have the benefits of their knowledge.

For the use of soil carbonated cement kiln dust(CCKD) as soil stabilization amendment. To begin with social, cement manufacturing treat CCKD as waste. On the other hand, the use of CCKD can offer more new job in the manufacturing companies and help eliminate unemployment (Cement Kiln Dust 2015).

Secondly, the impact of CCKD from the economic side is that using CCKD give cement manufacturers the advantage of saving money instead of produce new products (Capital Aggregates 2016). Besides, workers in cement manufacturing companies have an escalated chance of being infected by diseases or health problems. This will decrease the workers at this job and increase the salaries which can affect the product price (Regab 2011).

Thirdly, the impact of CCKD from the environmental side is that it reduces the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Cement production produces 5% of entire world carbon dioxide which cause global warming (GreenSpec 2017). The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) count CKD from hazardous waste regulation. CKD can increase the pH of the soils in the agricultural land (Rahman, Rehman & Al-Amoundi 2012).

 

This semester, the course concentrates on two independent learning skills which are project management and communication skills. Learning how to manage the project tasks will help in organizing and dividing the work between the team members as well as completing the project on the due date. The project management part will help me to respect meetings time with my team and clients and also manage my time while working on the project.

Communication skills are equally important to engineers and very helpful. It is important because as an engineer you must know how to communicate with you team members and your client. Also, it is helpful when searching and asking about new information. This will help me a lot in maintaining close contact with my team and client in my future career.