Integration of Sustainability into first of a kind projects: A Sustainable Project Management Approach

Integration of Sustainability into first of a kind projects: A Sustainable Project Management Approach: An explorative study into the tools/practices used in integration of sustainability in first of a kind projects

SATISH, PRANAVA (TU Delft Civil Engineering and Geosciences)

Bosch-Rekveldt, M.G.C. (mentor)
Leijten, M. (graduation committee)
Bakker, H.L.M. (graduation committee)
Gerwen Van, Wouter (mentor)
Seijs, Diana (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Civil Engineering | Construction Management and Engineering

2022-05-19

Incorporating sustainable practices in projects through a project management approach has gained traction in recent years. The current definition of integrating sustainability in projects is ambiguous (Schipper, Sivius, & Nedeski, 2012) and stakeholders hold different perspectives on the topic. Integrating sustainability in projects has greatly shifted from the concept of reusing, recycling of materials in projects to reducing the delays in the projects to save the CO2 emissions and in increasing energy efficiencies in the projects (McPhee & Dias, 2020). Although, integrating sustainability into projects has gained traction in recent years, project management profession has faced difficulties in incorporating sustainability principles in large infrastructure projects especially in first of a kind project (“Progress of PM”, 2022). This is because, technologies or methods to be employed in these projects are unknown and there is no precedent or project expertise to guide these projects. This has proven to be vulnerable to severe cost and schedule overruns and performance deficiencies. These projects are built with a strong motive to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions but, due to the delays by new technology or methods involved, saving carbon dioxide emissions during the construction have been proved difficult (“Progress of PM”, 2022). The research is thus grounded by the gap of exploring tools/practices to reduce the delays in first of a kind project which will aid in saving the CO2 emissions and in meeting the energy efficiencies targets.

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