Re-designing project management: Steps towards a project management curriculum for a sustainable built environment

Re-designing project management: Steps towards a project management curriculum for a sustainable built environment

Heintz, J.L.
Lousberg, L.H.M.J.
Prins, M.

Architecture and The Built Environment

Management in the Built Environment

2015-11-23

Sustainability concerns add a wide range of both stakeholders and performance expectations to building projects. The transition of a circular economy will also have a significant impact on the way in which building projects are carried out. This in addition to an already established escalation of stakeholder involvement and performance expectations. Even simple projects are acquiring a substantial degree of complexity. Taken together these factors (and others) suggest that we need to move beyond classic project management to an alternative approach to project management education which prioritizes outputs over outcomes (Morris, 2013b), placing the emphasis on project sponsors business strategies, and the social and environmental ambitions, and focussing on the early stages, the social aspects, and the problems solving activity of project management. The scope of this paper is to propose a framework for an alternative approach to project management education for built environment professionals. The framework will make use of principles of Practical Pluralism, Project Management as Design, Project Management Design Cycle. The intention of the framework is to facilitate graduate project managers is making use of the wide range of recent project management scholarship.

sustainable project management
project management education

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IBEA Publications Ltd.

9781326479510

Proceedings of the Joint CIB Symposium Going North for Sustainability: Leveraging Knowledge and Innovation for Sustainable Construction and Development, London South Bank University, London, UK, 23-25 November 2015

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