Reference no: EM133777008 , Length: word count:4000

Research theme: Sustainable Construction Materials for Urban Rainwater Management

Research topic: Enhancing the Strength and Durability of Pervious Concrete through the Incorporation of Glass Powder for Effective Rainwater Drainage Solutions

Final research proposal (6000 words, which must include a literature review section of 3000 words)

Introduction (1000 words)
Write an Introduction section similar to the Introduction section of a journal article to explain the background of your proposal.

• Literature review + gaps of knowledge statements (3000 words)

Write a Literature C-,).Review section simialr to the Literature Review section of a journal article. You should firstly identify the important aspects in your chosen topic. Then, explain what previous studies have done in each of the aspect. For instance, assume your topic is automated construction waste estimation based on BIM. In this topic, the important aspect is: what data is needed to estimate construction waste generation of a construction project; what equations we should use to estimate construction waste generation based on the needed data; what BIM application we should use; how we extract the needed data from the BIM model; how we insert the calculation equations into the BIM application to estimate; whether we need other software to complete the estimation. After you identify these important aspects, you need to explain how existing studies respond to these aspects. For instance, what data is used by the articles you reviewed to estimate construction waste? What equations are used by them? What BIM applications are used by them? etc.

You need to organise the literature 5 review section in a logical and purposeful way, so that the literature El* review can highlight the gaps of knowledge you have identified, leading to the research topic in the next section below.

Research aim & objectives, + innovation & significance statements (1000 words)

You need to first propose your specific research topic. Then, explain your research aims. Finally, explain what is new about your research proposal and why it is important. For instance, a research topic can be: Automated construction waste estimation of road projects based on BIM. Then, the research aims can be: 1) propose equations to estimate construction waste generation of road projects; 2) propose a streamlined BIM approach to conduct automated estimation based on the proposed equations; and 3) validate the proposed method through a case study in Adelaide. Then, you need to explain the innovation and significance of your proposed topic which can be as follows. Innovation: most previous studies focus.on building projects but my topic focuses on road projects which is my innovation. Significance: governments worldwide invest a huge amount of money in road infrastructure. By accurately estimating the construction waste generated from these projects, we can develop better strategies to manage the impacts of these wastes.

• Methodology (1000 words)
Finally, you need to write a Methodology section. Explain the following key aspects in this section: what data you need to conduct the study; where and how do you plan to get the data: and how do you plan to analyse the data. Data can be quantitative data such as statistical data, questionnaire data or measured data from experiements. Data can also be qualitative data such as transcripts from interviews, drawings of projects and images. What data do you need? Some study requires data to be collected from a city or country (where) through fieldworks (how), while some studies collect data from the internet such as statistical data collected from the websites of the statistical department of a country or World Bank (where) through manually downloading the data files (how). Where and how do you plan to obtain the data you need? We can also use quantitative methods such as statistical analysis (e.g. regressions and factor analysis), qualitative methods such as content analysis, or mixed methods to analyse the data. How do you plan to analyse your data?

You should use in-text citations to support your argument. You should have a reference list at the end of the final research proposal to denote the full referencing details of your in-text citations. Harvard referencing style should be used throughout the research proposal.

All the word requirements above are minimum requirements. You can have a longer research proposal.
The word number of the Reference list at the end of your proposal is not counted in the 6000-word requirement.