A methodology to identify sustainability indicators in construction project management—Application to infrastructure projects in Spain

Fernández-Sánchez, Gonzalo; Rodríguez-López, Fernando

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2010.04.009

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“…The objectives of risk assessment to corporate occupiers are to increase the probability and impact of positive events, and decrease the probability and impact of events adverse to the buildings [15].…”

Section: The Need For Risk Assessment Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Risk assessment methods for life cycle costing in buildings

2016

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Abstract. Purpose. There has been a growing consciousness of the significance of considering the costs of buildings and of developing financial methods to evaluate the life cycle costs (LCC) of buildings in use. Before any decision to invest capital in a building project or existing infrastructure is taken, it is essential that all corporate occupants and stakeholders in the policymaking practice are fully aware of the risks that are inherent as any LCC estimate will always involve a degree of risk exposure. Design/methodology/approach. Questionnaire survey to 120 construction professionals was used to gauge the current level of awareness, usage and advocated benefits of risk assessment methods in LCC. The questionnaire comprised three main sections each exploring different parts of the research question. Findings. The key findings of the statistical analysis indicated that there is a low awareness and usage of risk assessment methods and four factors were the most advocated benefits of its application to corporate occupiers and decision makers. This study fills the gap in the existing knowledge by addressing concerns over risk assessment to improve the confidence in LCC. Research limitations/implications. Although the data used in this paper was from professionally qualified members of either the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) and the British Institute for Facilities Management (BIFM), the research is limited in some ways in that it does not cover all the professionals in the construction industry. Nevertheless, all the professionals who responded to the questionnaire have up-to-date level of awareness of risk assessment methods in life cycle costing. Practical implications. As a result of growing awareness of whole life costing among corporate occupants and facilities managers in contemporary building projects, precise assessment of cost is a challenging undertaking as it consists of some measure of risk with regards to the running and maintenance costs during the entire life of the buildings. Thus, the existence of considerable improbability and doubt regarding cost and time evidence of an LCC study would have mind blowing implications on final results and consequently have minute bearing on subsequent decisions made by corporate occupiers. Social implications. Value for money for construction products and its facilities should not be viewed only in terms of costs to design and construction. Rather, it is vital for corporate occupants and society in general to consider other key variables such as operations, maintenance, renovation, replacement, and end of life costs. Originality/value. This paper contributes with new outlooks aimed at assessing the current level of awareness, usage and advocated benefits of risk assessment methods in LCC and adds to the limited empirical studies on risk assessment to corporate occupants and decision makers.

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Section: The Need For Risk Assessment Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Risk assessment methods for life cycle costing in buildings

2016

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“…According to recent research, the infrastructure sustainability is discussed in three dimensions: economic, society and environment, so the sustainable infrastructure projects should meet the requirement in all these three dimensions (Fernández-Sánchez & Rodríguez-López, 2010). Therefore, the methodology and indicator selection should balance those three impact parts of infrastructure project, which are of equal importance in the sustainability.…”

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The method and index of sustainability assessment of infrastructure projects based on system dynamics in China

Zhou

Liu

2015

JIEM

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Abstract:Purpose: As one of the most important overhead capital of urban economics and social development, the sustainable development of urban infrastructure is becoming a key issue of prosperous society growing. The purpose of this paper is to establish a basic model to analysis certain infrastructure project's sustainable construction and operation.Design/methodology/approach: System dynamics is an effective stimulation method and tool to deal with such complex, dynamics, nonlinear systems, which could be used in analyzing and evaluating all aspects of infrastructure sustainability internally and externally. In this paper, the system is divided into four subsystems and 12 main impact indicators.Through setting the boundary and other basic hypothesis, this paper designs the basic causal loop diagrams and stock & flow diagrams to describe the relationship between variables and establish a quantifiable structure for the system. Findings:Adopting a sewerage treatment in China as a case to test our model, we could conclude that the model of internal sustainable subsystem is reasonable. However, this model is a basic model, and it need to be specific designed for the certain project due to the diversity of infrastructure types and the unique conditions of each projects.Originality/value: System Dynamics (SD) is widely used in the study of sustainable development and has plentiful research achievements from macro perspective but few studies in the microcosmic project systems. This paper focuses on the unique characteristics of urban -1002-Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management -http://dx.doi.org/10.3926/jiem.1496 infrastructure in China and selects infrastructure project which is based on micro-system discussion. The model we designed has certain practical significance in policy setting, operation monitoring and adjustment of the urban projects with high rationality and accuracy.

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“…Some researchers also presented their works on the integration of sustainability in the project management on the basis of the triple bottom line approach and mentioned some sets of factors from a different perspective (Fernández-Sánchez & Rodríguez-López, 2010;Bell & Morse, 2003;Labuschagne & Brent, 2006;Keeble et al, 2003). Aforesaid integration of financial, natural and social factors in project management does not present a holistic approach to sustainability for the project management.…”

Section: Sustainability In Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The sustainability ensures and integrates the financial, social and nature responsibility factors to harness the present resources judicially and also to offer the same for coming future generations around the globe (Kleindorfer et al, 2005;Gimenez et al, 2012). An attempt has been carried out to integrate sustainability and project management by few researchers namely Silvius et al (2013, 158 2017), Gareis et al(2013), Carvalho (2016a, 2016b), Sánchez (2015), Silvius (2013), Bernhardi et al (2000), Bodea et al (2010), Fernández andRodríguez-López (2010), Hartig et al(1996), Jones (2006), Raven et al (2009), Turlea et al (2010) and Vifell and Soneryd (2012). From the literature, a lot of research scope have been found for the development of the models, tools, methods, and techniques to integrate and gauge the sustainability and the project management (Singh et al, 2012;Thomson et al, 2011;John et al 2016).…”

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The sustainable project management: A review and future possibilities

Chawla¹,

Chanda²,

Angra³

et al. 2018

10.5267/j.jpm

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Sustainability in project operations such as financial, social and environmental sustainability is one of the most prominent issues of the present times to address. The increased focus on sustainable business operations has changed the viewpoint of researchers and corporate community towards the project management. Today sustainability in business operations along with sustainability of natural and environmental resources are of paramount significance which has further caused a huge impact on conception, planning, scheduling and execution of the project management activities. In this paper, a literature review between 1987 and 2018 on different issues affecting the sustainability in project management is carried out. The present study also identifies and discusses the future possibilities to apply computational procedures in order to estimate and optimize the sustainability issues in the management of projects, for example the computational evolutionary algorithms can be applied to formulate the multi-objective decisionmaking problem after considering critical factors of sustainability in the projects and then yielding optimized solutions for the formulated problem to achieve sustainability in the projects. A new integrated framework with the inclusion of feedback function for assessment of each decision and actions taken towards the sustainability of the projects is also identified and presented.

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A methodology to identify sustainability indicators in construction project management—Application to infrastructure projects in Spain

Cited by 313 publications

References 13 publications

Risk assessment methods for life cycle costing in buildings

Risk assessment methods for life cycle costing in buildings

The method and index of sustainability assessment of infrastructure projects based on system dynamics in China

The sustainable project management: A review and future possibilities

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