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Who Wants to Be... More Sustainable?

Event Date
Aug 04, 2014
Type
Conference Presentation - Implementation
Research Team
RT-304
Slides
48
Topic
Sustainability Practices and Metrics for the Construction Phase of Capital Projects
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Abstract
Construction sustainability is the construction phase implementation of practices, strategies, and actions that address current and future environmental, social, and economic needs, while considering capital project safety, quality, cost, and schedule. This research identified 54 unique actions that project teams can take during construction to enhance overall project sustainability. Capital project owners and constructors increasingly seek guidance and resources to integrate and evaluate sustainability decisions and actions into their project construction services. Major project stakeholders desire enhanced and transparent sustainability strategies and metrics in order to promote project sustainability culture, engagement, participation, and performance.  To respond to this trend, RT-304 established structured approaches to determining, executing, and judging effective sustainability solutions during the construction phase of capital projects. The scope of this research is limited to the construction phase, which the team defined as starting at the contractors initial planning for jobsite presence and as ending with the final commissioning report. Examples of such construction discretionary decisions and activities include the following: temporary facility design and construction; construction means and methods; and management of the worksite, workforce, subcontractors/suppliers, and temporary facilities. Examples of sustainability actions out of the research scope include those required by either project designs or broad-based regulatory compliance. Also, although safety is a factor in any successful sustainability implementation, the team excluded actions that affect only safety.  The research identified optional construction phase actions to enhance capital project sustainability, then catalogued these actions, sorted them by relevant construction function, and termed them Construction Phase Sustainability Actions (CPSAs). The team pursued four concurrent developments:      A model of the construction sustainability process     CPSA-specific implementation guidance (for 3 example CPSAs)     A tool for screening or prioritizing CPSAs for individual projects     A list of construction sustainability input and output metrics        RT-304 builds upon the pioneering research conducted by RT-250, Sustainable Design and Construction for Industrial Construction.
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Knowledge Area
Construction Execution, Quality Management, Sustainability, Environmental & Security
Project Phase
Construction
Project Function
Project Management, Procurement & Contracts, Construction, Commissioning & Startup, Operations & Maintenance, Health, Safety & Environmental, Risk Management, Quality Management, External Stakeholders
Industry Group
Light Industrial, Heavy Industrial, Buildings, Infrastructure
Research Topic
Sustainability Practices and Metrics for the Construction Phase of Capital Projects
Keywords
Constructability Phase Sustainability Actions (CPSAs), Construction Sustainability Process, CPSA Screening Tool, CPSA Implementation Index, Project sustainability culture, Sustainability metrics, rt304

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