Environmental Impact of the Football Stadium Construction

Introduction

The construction of the 36,000-seater Football Stadium in the district of Tipner, Portsmouth, UK, is a great event for the Tipner community. However, the construction of such a large architectural complex is also a great challenge for the site’s environments and ecological situation. To predict the environmental impact of this stadium’s construction on Tipner, it is necessary to use the effective environmental impact assessment (EIA) methods chosen after the analysis of the aspects associated with the construction of the Football Stadium in Tipner.

Significant Environmental Impacts

The construction of the stadium can be associated with such significant environmental impacts as:

• Waste
• Air pollution
• Noise and vibration
• Water contamination
• Ecosystems destruction
• Effects on the surface water and drainage systems
• Soil contamination (Stallworthy, 2013, p. 25).

Waste as the Main Environmental Impact

Construction of solid waste is one of the most significant impacts on the Tipner’s environments because of the expected use of a large number of materials to construct the stadium. These materials can contaminate the water and soil resources while being used and disposed of non-appropriately. The next challenge is the waste produced during the stadium exploitation period (Stallworthy 2013, p. 31).

Predictive Techniques to Assess EI

1. Experimental methods are appropriate to work with the laboratory results.
2. Mathematical models are appropriate to work with the numerical data.
3. Survey techniques are appropriate to work with the surveys’ data.

Survey techniques are the most helpful to assess the environmental impact of the stadium’s construction while referring to the problem of waste because of the focus on the analysis of available inventories with references to the existing data and monitoring results (Deakin, Mitchell, & Nijkamp 2013, p. 58).

The Plan to Use the Technique

1. Screening – to decide on the necessity of the EIA to address the problem of the waste.
2. I am scoping – the collection of information on the problem of waste.
3. The assessment of the impact with the help of the inventory strategies:

   1. The analysis of the available inventories;
   2. The analysis of the existing data and monitoring results;
   3. The analysis of similar scenarios;
   4. The comparative analysis;
   5. The expert judgment.
4. Mitigation
5. Action (Morris & Therivel, 2009, p. 114).

Mitigation – the review of the strategy actions with the focus on their effectiveness is required (Perdicoulis, Durning, & Palframan 2012, p. 98).
Sensitivity – the proposed technique is relevant and sensitive because of the focus on the concrete surveys’ data and materials on the expected waste number and use. As a result, the assumptions are expected to be proved with the help of the quality and quantity data analysis on the water and soil contamination and waste recycling (Blackshare 2014, p. 43).

Recommendations

The survey techniques should be used to predict the environmental impact of building the Football Stadium in Tipner because of the strategy’s focus on the concrete data and its use in combination with the analogy and experts judgment statements.

Bibliography

Blackshare, D 2014, ‘Predicting environmental impact of spill difficult,’ Environmental Impact Assessment Review, vol. 44. no. 3, p. 43-46.

Deakin, M, Mitchell, G & Nijkamp, R V 2013, Sustainable urban development volume 2: the environmental assessment methods, Routledge, New York City, NY.

Morris, P & Therivel, R, 2009, Methods of environmental impact assessment, Routledge Plus, Abingdon, UK.

Perdicoulis, A, Durning, B, & Palframan, L 2012, Furthering environmental impact assessment: towards a seamless connection between EIA and EMS, Edward Elgar Publishing, Northampton, MA.

Stallworthy, M 2013, Sustainability land use and the environment, Routledge, New York City, NY.