Critical Success Factors of Green Project Management for Sustainable Housing

Abstract

The growing demand for green construction, which is associated with increased perceptions of the risks associated with going green, highlights the need for a standard or benchmark that should be identified for project management practices to ensure successful sustainable urban development, assess its progress and report the results. The article argues that this would require a rephrasing of the project management processes as the execution of green building projects requires changes to the traditional project management aspects. Therefore, the article will address the significant changes needed for project management practices that are appropriate to provide procedural parameters to a green building project. Based on this perspective, the article explores the integration of concepts of sustainability into knowledge areas and processes of project management and how it can be used as a tool to sustainably implement the construction projects. The article results to reach the critical success factors of a work plan which is introduced as a Guide Model. The introduced Guide Model was validated to ensure the integration of sustainability into the management of sustainable development and fast track mega projects, called Green Project Management (GPM) with Egyptian sustainable development in the housing sector as the case study.

Success Factors in Mega Infrastructure Projects (MIPs): Developing Nations Perspectives

“…Developing project capability in an independent, cross-organisational project requires that skills, and experiences, recollections from previous projects for individual or organisation to access. Well-trained projects personnel can increase knowledge in project organisation, integrating mutually beneficial practices in project management preparation, enhancement, knowledge management, cost management, and capacity development leading to an improve communication of successful mega construction/infrastructure projects [3]. Emphasis should be placed on intelligent learning in educational programs to train future project managers with critical thinking to maintain the perfect attitude in managing project complexity, include creating soft skills, which are not quite the same as professional skills, and learning with true life projects to gain important experience [8].…”

“…Such projects include the development/creation of cultural activities such as power plants, construction of extractive plants, stations and commuting projects, railways, highways, dams and even the Olympic Games or large-scale exhibitions [2]. What MIP have in common is that they must coordinate and control significant and complex financial, professional, and social resources to implement them into the real world [3]. However, MIPs could be a failure if there is an ineffective project management methods and concepts in their development [4].…”