The concept of sustainable construction project management in international practice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Construction Project Management

scholarly journals A Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Model to Choose the Best Option for Sustainable Construction Management

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 2239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyit Ali Erdogan ◽  
Jonas Šaparauskas ◽  
Zenonas Turskis
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Construction Management ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Construction Project Management ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Project Construction ◽  
Turkish Case ◽  
Decision Making Model

The article briefly discusses the content and terms of construction project management. It identifies the main problems of construction management and discusses ways to solve those using multi-criteria methods. Well-performed management is one of the critical factors which leads to the success of any significant sustainable project. Construction project management consists of setting goals and defining user requirements, project constraints, and resources needed. This paper aims to create a practically useful model. The paper presents a comprehensive set of criteria, which led to the creation of a decision-making model for construction management, which was applied to a Turkish case study. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method and the Expert Choice computer program were used for calculations.

scholarly journals Decision Simulation of Construction Project Delivery System under the Sustainable Construction Project Management

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 2202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji-Wei Zhu ◽  
Li-Nan Zhou ◽  
Liang Li ◽  
Wajhat Ali
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Delivery System ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Indicator System ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Project Delivery ◽  
Construction Project Management ◽  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
Market Environment

Choosing an appropriate project delivery system (PDS) directly affects the achievement of performance goals, and at the same time it is of great significance for sustainable construction project management (SCPM). This paper took the PDS of construction engineering as the research object, took the Design-Build (DB) and the Design-Bid-Build (DBB) as examples, and established the indicator system for determinants of the PDS decision. Based on Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), a decision-making simulation model of the PDS decision was constructed, and this paper analyzed the influence of the project attribute characteristics, policy and market environment, owner ability and preference, and contractor technology and capabilities of the PDS decision. While analyzing the circumstances under which the owners tend to choose DB or DBB, the following conclusions were reached: (1) the contractor technology and capabilities increase faster in DB than in DBB. (2) The PDS with policy and market environment preferences has an advantage in the PDS decision, and the owners are more willing to choose the PDS which was selected previously. (3) The competition mechanism in the construction market will eliminate contractors whose growth rate is too low to meet the needs of projects in the market. The research provides theoretical references for the scientific decision-making of construction enterprises.

Research on the Role of Project Stakeholder in Sustainable Construction of Chinese Mainland

2012 ◽  
Vol 174-177 ◽  
pp. 2763-2767
Author(s):  
Xiao Long Gan ◽  
Shi Rong Li
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Chinese Mainland ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Construction Project Management ◽  
Management Mechanism ◽  
Level Order

Project stakeholders play an important role in the implementation process of sustainable construction. Due to different attributes of each stakeholder in the project, their importance level is different. This paper firstly identifies 13 project stakeholders based on Chinese construction project management mechanism and then a questionnaire survey was conducted to investigate their importance. This finding indicates that client and government play extremely important role in the sustainable construction; all the project stakeholders are important in the three aspects and the importance level order of project stakeholders in the three aspects is different.

Barriers to sustainable construction project management: the case of Iran

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Fathalizadeh ◽  
M. Reza Hosseini ◽  
Seyyed Saeed Vaezzadeh ◽  
David J. Edwards ◽  
Igor Martek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Construction Project Management ◽  
Sustainable Practices ◽  
Priority List ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Importance Index ◽  
Data Collection Instrument

PurposeThe barriers to integrating sustainable practices into construction project management require extensive resource allocations to resolve. Within developing countries such as Iran (where resources are scarce), remedial strategies adopted must prioritise tackling those barriers that can be expected to yield maximum return on investment. The candidate barriers are many, and this paper aims to identify a hierarchy of barriers, providing a priority list of remedial targets.Design/methodology/approachA mixed philosophical stance of interpretivism and post-positivism is adopted within a deductive approach and survey strategy. A list of 30 known barriers are identified from extant literature and used to formulate a questionnaire data collection instrument administered within the Iranian construction industry. Data collected from 176 practitioners are analysed using the relative importance index and Mann–Whitney U test to compare groups based on the participants' demographic variables.FindingsThe findings challenge the common assumption that items related to market and workforce experience are major inhibitors of change. That is, economics and regulatory dependent barriers have a higher impact on the failure of a shift to sustainable practices in Iran. The most influential barriers to incorporating sustainability in construction projects are: (1) lack of understanding of the potential benefits; (2) insufficient cooperation among practitioners, research institutions and environmental organisations; and (3) a lack of a systematic approach to pursuing sustainability goals. No significant associations are detected between the affiliation of the respondents and their attitude towards the issue. Thus, a generalised approach can be applied to a broader range of organisations and construction projects in Iran.Originality/valueWhile studies on sustainability impediments at the firm or project level are ubiquitous within literature, this research identifies that the most significant barriers to sustainable project management in Iran, as an underexplored context, are those experienced at the economic and institutional level. Moreover, this novel research presents important insights into the potential effects of participants' demographic profiles on their view of the importance of identified barriers.

scholarly journals Sustainable Construction Project Management (SCPM) Evaluation—A Case Study of the Guangzhou Metro Line-7, PR China

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 5731 ◽  
Author(s):  
Na Dong ◽  
Yanting Fu ◽  
Feng Xiong ◽  
Lujie Li ◽  
Yibin Ao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Construction Project Management ◽  
Sustainable Performance

As a pillar industry of the Chinese national economy, the construction sector needs to improve its level of management to embrace sustainable development. Sustainable construction project management (SCPM) performance evaluation can help to raise the level of management. However, the existing evaluation system that takes into account both the sustainable development and the dimension of traditional project management is meager. In order to address this problem, this study sets out an integrated sustainable performance evaluation method for SCPM, along with a comprehensive analysis of both traditional and future management directions. Through literature review and enterprise data analysis of the relevant factors of finance, schedule, quality, and safety, etc., indicators are filtered and classified. In order to determine the strength of each indicator, a questionnaire is administered to construction professionals within a large construction enterprise (group). From the result of the weight with an improved Group-G1 (iG1) method (finance 0.206, schedule 0.206, quality 0.185, safety 0.134, informatization 0.134, and greenization 0.134), it indicates that finance, schedule and quality management are still top three important dimensions in SCPM. However, amazingly, the greenization and informatization management is as significant as safety management. Finally, based on set pair analysis, the Guangzhou Metro Line 7 project is used as a verifying case, affirming the validity of the sustainable performance evaluation model. The above SCPM evaluation model can not only provide a guideline for construction companies’ sustainable management in China, but also serve as reference cases for other countries/regions to carry out relevant research work.

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