Yunhuang

I have always thought that proper communication is one of the key factors to achieve our goals and it is something that everyone can always improve further on in life. I was glad to have Effective Communication as a module for the trimester as this is the first language module in our university. The module provides me a chance to prove in my writing’s ability. As mentioned earlier in my self-introduction that “I always have the concern that my readers are unable to understand my writings completely and  I am eager to confirm with them through verbally.” Therefore, my main goal was to clear such doubt by the end of the module. Initially, I was wondering why Professor Brad wanted us to revise on our self-introduction. Why was there a need to comment on other’s self-introduction and reply to their comments? To be honest, I felt irritated and troublesome for doing so much for just self-introduction. I came to realise the effectiveness only when my classmates tha...

In the article, “The Self-Healing Concrete That Can Fix Its Own Cracks,” Spinks (2015) stated that Hendrik Jonkers created self-healing concrete innovation to “decrease the amount of new concrete produced, lower maintenance and repair costs for city officials, building owners and home-owners” by inlaying self-activating limestone-producing bacteria into the concrete. The self-healing concrete has a longevity of up to 200 years and helps to reduce carbon emitters. However, the concrete can only repair up to 0.8mm wide of cracks and cost €30 per metre cube more than normal concrete. According to Alker, who is director of policy at the UK Green Building Council believes that it will be hard to convince the industry to adopt the new innovation. It will take unconventional consumers and developers who are willing to test their building with the new concrete to demonstrate positive results before others will support. Jonker has also been experimenting across the world where he claim...