A Procedural Paradigm for Green Project Management of Sustainable Development

Abstract

The author discusses that project managers (PMs) are generally liable for the actualization of the construction management objectives, as they have effective roles in developing a sustainable building process. The project management practices and their performance in the currently on-going Egyptian national housing projects from initiation and planning stage through to construction and operation stages will be analyzed and evaluated in an effort to adopt a paradigm shift of communities’ project management to a sustainable path. The understanding of green building projects should be based on the management of the project life cycle stages as an integrated process. Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), on the contrary, introduces the project management execution process as a repeated process in each of the project life cycle stages. Therefore, the consideration of sustainability fundamentals in project management practices requires a parametric shift. This shift is discussed in this paper as the successful integration of project management aspects through project life cycle stages. Hence, the author utilized the existing knowledge areas in PMBOK with further adjustments, added new knowledge areas and modified project management processes flow to go linear with project life cycle stages (PLC). This has resulted in having sustainability indicators that can be monitored and assessed through the project management processes of housing projects. The paper results in the formation of a guide model that is introduced as a procedural paradigm that helps project managers to plan, monitor and assess sustainable-based housing projects from inception phase to operation stage and involve the appropriate corrective action at the proper time.