Abstract
The development of a green-building project following a specific reference standard such as LEED, brings new conditions and restrains for all subjects involved in the process. Such changes affect technicians, owners, bureaucracy and also the management tasks either during design or construction phases. Within this scope, project management plays a key role for the optimization of the design-project development. This research analyzes the design process of a single case-study project from the project management perspective, taking into consideration all the activities that negatively affected the project design development. The project selected for the scope of the research is a new school complex located in Northern Italy currently pursuing the LEED Gold certification with a project cost of 13,2 million Euros. A new methodology was created in order to analyze the project and evaluate the effects of detected project-management issues under three different points of view: costs, time and building sustainability. Such “issues” were identified by researchers on the basis of the LEAN-definition of “waste”. The scope of the research is to develop and test a methodology for the optimization of the project management processes during the development of a LEED building design in Europe through the detection and evaluation of process wastes. The results showed that project management issues related to green-building tasks affect considerably the cost, schedule and sustainability of the project design and vice versa, the accuracy of the project management tasks affect the sustainability features of the final building design.
Highlights
Case studies, interviews and data collection usedThe importance of sustainability within the cons- for the majority of the research articles take into considetruction business has been increasing dramatically during ration the average Anglo-American construction process.the last decades [1]
Hansford et al – 2013) and, as some In other countries and within the European research studies point out, “an increased emphasis must Union the construction and project management process be placed on the processes and competencies required is substantially different
Many researchers focus on unders- construction and project development process [12] (Guy tanding different aspects of delivering green-building & Moore – 2005)
Summary
The importance of sustainability within the cons- for the majority of the research articles take into considetruction business has been increasing dramatically during ration the average Anglo-American construction process. During the last years several research studies process for design-bid-built projects, designers and conanalyzed different project management issues related to tractors work almost independently following a two green-building developments. Their main goal is to op- -party contract. Middle School Complex located in Trento, Northern Italy, building design phase, called “executive design”, to acquicertified under the LEED for Schools 2007, with a total bu- re all project information in order to have a global view of dget of approximately 13,2 Million Euros and a total gross the process and better evaluating the effect of each issue square footprint of 6.000 square meters The choice of this on the design process development.
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