Abstract
Project managers have played a vital role in sustainable construction projects by integrating the concept of sustainability into their practices. The role of project manager is important in all phases of sustainable construction projects but especially in the pre-construction phase when the greatest challenges that require their involvement occur. This requires project managers to have effective leadership skills to think a project through and remain focused on the end goal. Thus, the aim of this paper is to identify the project manager’s leadership skills in the pre-construction phase of sustainable construction projects. A key significant contribution of this paper is the literature review of journals and books on project manager’s leadership skills when engaged in sustainable construction projects. The overall intent is to highlight and identify the leadership skills of project managers in the pre-construction phase of sustainable construction projects so that the values and benefits of these skills can be adapted in current practices to successfully deliver such projects.
Highlights
The need to achieve sustainability is duly highlighted as the term has become widespread in policy-oriented research as a target that public policies ought to achieve [1]
Sustainable construction is technically complex since it involves multi-disciplinary designers and engineers with green expertise along with multi-cultural project teams at several different levels
As the sustainable construction phenomenon continues to grow and gain popularity, there is a need to improve pivotal attributes that project managers should possess in order to manage a sustainable construction project
Summary
The need to achieve sustainability is duly highlighted as the term has become widespread in policy-oriented research as a target that public policies ought to achieve [1] This makes it important to ensure that sustainability is included as part of a strategy that balances social development, economic growth, and environmental sustainability. Sustainable construction is technically complex since it involves multi-disciplinary designers and engineers with green expertise along with multi-cultural (languages, nationality, and religion) project teams at several different levels. Alongside their traditional roles (time, scope, and cost), project managers can be sustainability drivers within the project teams. This paper discusses and identifies the roles and the leadership skills of the project manager in sustainable construction projects, within the pre-construction phase
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