The Three Components of Sustainability
Sustainability under the context of engineering projects has been an area of focus that needs to be paid attention for. This is due to the fact that the resources are increasingly becoming limited. The number of the individuals seeking to handle the resources has equally increased. There is a need to balance the environmental requirements, social and economic objectives. The sustainability that is yet to be adopted should have at least three components. This will include an attempt to treat the environmental and other social issues the same as the aspects of economics as advocated by (Uvarova, et al. 2016).
This kind of sustainability has been proposed to be included in the projects of engineering. The sustainability will serve to challenge the variables of the project in the cases of the setting of the project goal. It will also challenge the deliveries of the project. The sustainability in the project of construction requires optimization of the available resources, setting of very strict work schedule and also achieving the objectives of the projects simultaneously under the already mentioned or identified constraints. The project of construction has been unique on its own. This has been a complex project that involves so many stakeholders and a lot of uncertainties.
The sustainable project has impacted the society in a manner that is felt directly so as to enhance the sustainability. This kind of sustainability is needed so as to enhance the corporation.The stakeholders will usually meet various objectives, stakeholders among others to realize the required level of sustainability. The integration of the sustainability into the management of the construction has been a major challenge. The control of the sustainable engineering management as a practice has been done to ensure that there is the proper realization of the objectives. This has provided the best platform to practice the sustainability in engineering. The researches that have been done indicate that sustainable project management serves to monitor, plan and finally control the delivery of the project. The idea seeks to long-term support to the processes that ensure that the projected is constantly and be prepared to handle the challenges that are recited to the spelled objectives.
The definition of the project sustainability must be given both external and internal perspectives. Considering that the sustainability project has a direct impact on the on the delivery process of the project, the final products of the sustainable project management it is very important if the sustainability can be realized in the delivery process. The study will focus on the methods of integration of the sustainability into the engineering of construction from the perspective of the internal engineering management.
Impact of Sustainable Projects on Society
This basically means that the project triggers the life cycle of the project. From the perspective of the sustainability, the three-dimensional aspects were to be given the required targets. The first dimension was chosen to be called the managerial control. This implies that bathe managerial control will effectively fit within the boundaries of the control. This will basically refer to any of the attempts made to ensure that there is the motivation of the other characters to make them follow the given instruction without many difficulties. This idea is attributed to (Mudjanarko, Setiawan and Hasyim 2017).
The major purpose of this particular study is to attempt and explore the sustainable projects that taking into account the activities like planning in the project of the engineering. The main aim of the paper is to fill the gap that exists in this particular research through the proposal and assess me not of the fog the sustainable planning. The projects are compelled to take into account the sustainability of their entire management. It is therefore very important to develop the research question that will assist in the handling of the problem that is at hand (Tabassi et al.2016).
What is meant by the term sustainable project in the context of the construction engineering? How can it be evaluated to match the construction engineering? In order to assist in the answering of the already highlighted questions, the previous studies that had attempted to answer these questions are revisited. The evaluation of the project in regard to the prior planning can be a factor of consideration.There has been the development of the SSP to assist in the measurement of the planning of the sustainable project site previous studies have indicated that the sustainable projects are made up of three fundamental components that define it fully.
These components cover the entire life cycle of the planning and the success of the sections of the project is too handled. The study that has been identified here will allow the researchers to effectively identify and evaluate the performance of the project against the indices. It will contribute to the efforts of recognizing the energy and the effort that has been directed in the planning of the project for the ecological, social, profitable and other aspects.
There was conduction of the sustainability factors that assisted in the analysis of the other factors. This was done so as to assist in the identification of the items that have very important variance in the exploration of the dimensions. It was discovered that the size of the sample is very key as far as the analysis of the confirmatory factors is concerned. This has been confirmed by (Kariyawasam and Jayasinghe 2016).
Integration of Sustainability into Construction Management
The first identified factor was called the material control. This particular factor was actually loaded with the basic components that included the following activities; planning of the process, control of the project, monitoring of the project that finally planning of the entire task. The outlined factors were very important in the solution of the challenges of the problem that are related to the planning and effective utilization of the items aforementioned.
This was the second factor that was identified. This particular factor is a function of five different items. The items are related to the identification, analysis and preventing and also adapting with the potential risks that are raised in the projects of the construction of the engineering. This will normally lead to the creation of the subunits of the dimension of the sustainable project with respect to the risk at hand or the projected risk. There are proactive measures that are considered in the planning of the projects that assist in the waste reduction, minimization of the cost and also reduction of the time risk and social conflicts. This particular dimension is therefore defined as the Risk response as per (Hager, Golonka and Putanowicz 2016).
This has been known to be the third factor of the sustainable engineering project in the construction sector. It is made up of four key items. The four items are connected to the team member’s sustainable perception of the process of the planning of the project and the projects outcome or the results of the projects. The items suggest that this particular planning in the construction engineering will directly influence the corporation of the team members of the project. According to( Lai et al 2017), the members of the teams are identified as the stakeholders to the plan of the project and this will be expressed as the collaboration, negotiation, communication, and recognition among the project team in the entire life of the project.
The performance of the confirmatory factors was a subject of the requirements of the validity and reliability in the scale of the measurements. This was to load all the identified items in the respective constructs and proposed structure of the SSP. The scale of the SSp. was fed with the data from the exploratory analysis. This was used to fill the steps of the confirmatory suggestions. There was the use of at least four models that collectively assumed one factor. The other models were contrasted using the measures for each model. In the process of the analysis of the model, it was found out that the fourth model was unique in its own as explained by (Tabassi et al 2016)..
Evaluation of Sustainable Project Management and its Impact on Project Success
This was because it had some extra restrictions in the structure that correlate with the first identified there other factors. The acceptable threshold of each factor was identified to ensure that the operation ability of the entire process was not interfered with. The coefficients of the regression were taken into the consideration. The indicators of the successful performance based on the factors were very key. The individual construction was found to be very helpful than the correlation of the squared correlation that some time exists between the sets of the constructs. This provided enough evidence for the discriminations that are witnessed in the validity of each of the items as indicated by (Hager, Golonka and Putanowicz 2016).
The development of the scale of the SSP was the end result of the testing of the validity. This validity was found to relate directly to the outcomes of the projects. The confirmation of the validity was performed I the theatrical standards. The aim of the evaluation of the project standards was to monitor the constructs that were retrieved. The success of the project was compared with the other results that had been previously been identified. The results were laid down statistically for the easier comparison.
While the idea of the project management has been considered a well-known theoretical concept in the project management literature, the extent of the effort offered has remained to be hidden. The amount of the efforts that should be invested in the project to realize the planning of the project for the sustainable management has never been discovered. The evaluation of the sustainable planning of the project sustainability has remained very challenging task. The pater has comprehensively supported the idea of the sustainable project management and also provided the definition of the planning as well. The prediction of the success of the projects was done based on the construction of the sustainable system as advocated by (Chang et al. 2016).
The collections of the data that are normally considered to be very relevant to the study are normally conducted using the extensive interviews and survey. The findings have been very elaborative and indicated that the construction of the engineering projects with the sustainability could be effectively be distinguished from the little cases by using the criteria of the managerial control, response to the risks and the consensus of the work. This basically means that the project triggers the life cycle of the project. From the perspective of the sustainability, the three-dimensional aspects were to be given the required targets according to (Panda, Paul and Tan 2017). The first dimension was chosen to be called the managerial control. This implies that bathe managerial control will effectively fit within the boundaries of the control. This will basically refer to any of the attempts made to ensure that there is a motivation of the other characters to make them follow the given instruction without many difficulties. The sustainable project planning refers to the activities that are interested in the processes of the planning and control that involves the specific rules, policies and the procedures. This will effectively help in the regulation s of the resources, outcomes and also procedures as had been indicated by (Alwen, Jones and Holgate 2017).
This implies that there is a provision of the central idea as being the outcomes of the project. The control aspect is very necessary to ensure that there is strict adherence to the regulations that had been set before. It becomes the yardstick for the measurements of the performance of the project by evaluating and controlling the delivery process. The operations of the five items are related to the setting of the procedures and in the determination of the control process. This will help in the reflection of the extent of highlighting the control role of the sustainable project. The key areas that are taken to be of concern include the reduction of the waste, reduction of the production cost, allowing for the democratic process in any form of the decision making and also a creation of the responsible structure of the governance that will all assist in the sustainability of the engineering project. This has been elaborated by (Brebbia et al. 2017).
Risk response was considered to be the second dimension. It refers to the sustainable planning that deals with the risks that are associated with the entire construction of the project of engineering. This will be done in accordance with the sustainability procedures. The procedures are handled with precautionary efforts to handle the challenges. Planning is therefore considered as the critical stage in the process of the risk management according to (Chew 2017).
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