Research Proposal 1 Research proposal Shipping container Houses in a hot climate Abdulaziz Aljahdali/ P132783 1Research Proposal 2 Table of Contents Introduction: 3 .................................................................................................. Research title: 3 ............................................................................................. Background: 3 ................................................................................................ Aims and objectives: 3 ...................................................................................... Literature review: 4 ........................................................................................... Research methodology: 5 ..................................................................................... Research philosophy 5 ...................................................................................... Research Approach: 6 ....................................................................................... Research strategy: 6 ........................................................................................ Research design: 7 ........................................................................................... Data and Data collection Methods: 7 ..................................................................... Sampling: 7 ................................................................................................... Data analysis and representation: 8 ...................................................................... Ethical consideration: 8 ....................................................................................... Cost consideration Example 9 ............................................................................... Time plan: example 10 ....................................................................................... Anticipated output and outcomes: 11 ...................................................................... References: 12 .................................................................................................. 2Research Proposal 3 Introduction: Research title: This research is being conducted “to evaluate the container houses in hot climate of Saudi Arabia”. Background: This research will focus on the collecting the information regarding climate and temprature in Saudi Arabia and the prviously used heat controlling measures by builders.The container house is temporary houses built of shipping containers. Containers houses embedded with windows and doors. These kinds of houses are generally found in construction places, and utilized for offices and rest room for workers. But today containers houses are used for residence as well. The climate of Saudi Arabia is very arid and hot during May to October. Along with this, in moths of November to April, it is warm environment (NCBI, 2012). The rapid urbanization, high consumption of water, electricity, increased consumption, higher lifestyle, and industrialization in Saudi Arabia intensified scarcity of water, pollution, and other issues. Aims and objectives: Aims: The main aim of this research is to evaluate and provide deep insights for building a container houses in Saudi Arabia. The project is specially aimed to build container houses in rural areas voiding of water and electricity. Objectives: 3Research Proposal 4 The main objectives of this research are: ➢ To identify the best insulators for maintaining the container cool ➢ To identify the challenges in building container house ➢ To discern the relationship between container houses and environment ➢ To find out the advantage and disadvantage of container houses ➢ To find the way of generating electricity in rural areas ➢ To quote the price for container and building a container house as well Literature review: In words of Ismil et al, (2015) The construction of container houses bear a good simplicity and its strengths to face fierce whether condition makes it more popular to use to meet the needs of people for emergency lodge. Along with this, it is transportable which make more popular to use. Today container house is being preferred for residence also along with temporary shelter. Container house is taken for advantageous because of transportability, availability, durabitly, and lower cost. GAF (2015), identified in his research that container houses are being built in all the regions of hot climate and cold climate. Carey, T. (2014) found that the builder uses Intermodal Steel Building Units as unit of low income housing. According to GAF (2015), ISO decides about the standards of container in terms of temperature, size, and dimensions. There are different models of containers such as 20’, 40’, 40’HC, and 45’HC. GAF suggested 6 basic features of containers 4Research Proposal 5 end-opening, side opening, open-topped, collapsible, hangertaivers, flatracks, and airconditioned-referigerated. According to Alter, (2015), the heat problem in containers can be controled through insulation such as ceramic paints for external surface of containers and ccSPF for interiror surface. Apart from this, glass wool is also used for insulating the container. Glass wool is mostly used in Indonesia. Tom, (2015) stated that shading is used for keeping the container cool that is far good over insulators. Use of straw panels for clading the wall is also effective in insulating. Along with this, green roof provides best insulative features in containers houses. The roof reflects the rays of sun and not absorb them can be used to reduce heat Research methodology: Research philosophy Research philosophy creates the understanding in researcher about the research topic or problem. The research philosophies are positivism research philosophy, interpretivism research philosophy, and realism research philosophy (Yin, 2013). Positivism research philosophy is based on scientific methods for finding the research outcomes. This uses quantitative data. At the same time, interpretivism philosophy develop the conceptual understanding and in relation to the research problem. Furthermore, realism philosophy is based on the facts exists in environment (Hair, 2015). Here interpretivism research philosophy will be used because it will make the researcher able to analyze the problem deeply rather than depending on certain points or assumption like positivism philosophy. 5Research Proposal 6 Research Approach: Basically there are two types of research approaches that a researcher can use for analyzing the research problem. These approaches are deductive research approach and inductive research approach (Zikmund et al, 2013). A deductive approach focuses on proving the predetermined assumptions about the research based on information from existing theories, literature reviews, and previous research papers. On the other hand, inductive approach focuses on all the aspects of research problems rather than on certain assumptions. This is the wholesome research approach. In this research, inductive research approach will be used because it helps in analyzing the research problem from different aspects and in deep (O'Leary, 2013). It develops the theories that can be used for solving the research problems. It provides the information enough to develop the solutions. Research strategy: Research strategies are the tools or ways of reaching to research data. There are different kinds of research strategies such as survey, case study, brainstorming, experiments, questionnaire, literature review, observation, and interview, which can be used for collecting data (O'Leary, 2013). In this research study, questionnaire and interview will be used for collecting research data from Saudi Arabia and other countries that share similar climate change, pertaining to research topic. Interview and questionnaire makes me able to researcher in collecting well relevant, quality, and reliable data to ensure the effectiveness of research. Interview provides the flexibility in molding the questions. 6Research Proposal 7 Research design: There are two types of research design, which provides framework for research. These research designs are qualitative research design and quantitative research design. Qualitative research focuses on the qualitative data that are not quantifiable such as opinions, and attitude of people (Taylor et al, 2015). On the other hand, quantitative research focuses on data that can be measured in quantity or numerically such as age, weight, and height. In this research, both the research design will be used to collect the data because qualitative data will explain about the environment in Saudi Arabia and the living in a container house (if found). and quantitative data will show the effective of climate temperature on cargo house, previous data, and other. Data and Data collection Methods: The researcher in this researcher will gather both primary and secondary data. Secondary data will help in developing understanding about the shipping donated houses in saudi aria and primary data will help in finding the challenges, issues and in devising the possible solution to those issues as mentioned on the Objectives . The secondary data will be collected from literature reviews, research papers, and internet sources (Novikov and Novikov, 2013). Along with this, questionnaires and interview will be used for collecting the primary data. This is because interview and questionnaire will provide significant data with reliability, purity, and relevancy. Sampling: Sampling is the procedure of taking some variables from the universe, which represents the whole universe or population. In this research, around 50 managers from different container house construction companies in Saudi Arabia will be analyzed to collect the data. Along with 7Research Proposal 8 this, there are various methods of sampling such as simple random sampling, quota sampling, strata sampling, deliberate sampling, area sampling, and cluster sampling (Levy and Lemeshow, 2013). Here deliberate sampling will be used because a well established and famous company can provide more reliable information than the company emerged recently. Data analysis and representation: Data analysis is the process of arranging, sorting, processing, and assessing the data to give it a meaningful form of information. There are different statistical tool, economical tools, SPSS(??? really really expensive ask to mention or not), and other mathematical tools to analyze the data. In this research study, the SPSS, and Statistical tools will be use to analyze the collected data. Because SPSS and Statistical methods provide base for effective analysis of data. They are easy to use and handle (Hair, 2015). Furthermore, tables, graphs, and pictures will be used to demonstrate or represent the analyzed data regarding container house developments, temperatures, instruments, and others for better interpretation. The effective interpretation of data ensures the generation of effective solution to problem. Ethical consideration: Ethical consideration is necessary for ensuring the research is effective and viable. The information drawn from the respondents will be kept confidential. The data will be collected with full consent of respondents (Gray, 2013). They will not be forced for providing the information, which they think of critical for leading any issues for them. 8Research Proposal 9 Cost consideration Example Cost element No. of units Time duration in days Total cost of each elements($) Co-coordinator 1 30 6500 Project Administrator 1 30 8000 Research assistant 1 30 5000 Technicians 1 30 2500 Computer operators 1 30 2000 Research people 16 15 48000 Research analyst 1 15 10000 Office 1 30 9000 Vehicles Rent 5 30 25000 Stationary 6000 Equipments 30 20000 Total 142000 9Research Proposal 10 Time plan: example Work Schedule S. No Activity Duratio n (in days) Starting Date Finishing Date 1 Review of concerned literature and research papers 3 2 Selection of research problems 1 3 Review of research methods 2 4 Selection of research design 1 5 Drafting questionnaire and questions for interview 4 6 Sampling procedure 4 11 Collection and amalgamation of data 15 12 Analysis, representation, and interpretation of data 5 13 Conclusion and Recommendation 2 14 Preparation of the detailed report of the research findings 2 15 Submission of the report 1 10Research Proposal 11 Anticipated output and outcomes: Output: • A report of findings from primary and secondary sources about container houes in hot climate change will be developed • Insight development about the research topic • Improvement in knowledge of the container houses elements Outcomes: The research is proned to help in developing the a container house in hot climte specically in rural areas to sheltering the people in emergecy situation and for residence use as well. Along with this, the research will help in building container house at lowest cost but without compromising with qualtiy. It will help in using perfect insulator according to heat of climate in different region. 11Research Proposal 12 References: Yin, R. K., (2013) Case study research: Design and methods U.K: Sage publications. Zikmund, W. G., Babin, B. J., Carr, J. C. and Griffin, M., (2013) Business research methods USA: Cengage Learning. Taylor, S. J., Bogdan, R. and DeVault, M. (2015) Introduction to qualitative research methods: A guidebook and resource. USA: John Wiley & Sons. O'Leary, Z. (2013) The essential guide to doing your research project. UK: Sage. Novikov, A., M. and Novikov, D., A. (2013) Research Methodology: From Philosophy of Science to Research Design. USA: CRC Press. Mahapatra, P. (2014) RESEARCH METHODOLOGY. UK: Partridge Publishing. Mertens, D. M. 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