Relationship between project management and green buildings

Green architecture is a sustainable method of green building design: it is design and construction with the environment in mind. Green architects generally work with the key concepts of creating an energy efficient, environmentally friendly house. The natural ecology of the planet should be the macro model for architects to use as a model for a green building. Architecture can model itself on the planetary system to copy the natural green environment, making a new building, or adapting an existing building, both environmentally friendly, in terms of materials used and the space it occupies, and energy efficient, including solar technology. Criteria for Green Architects Architects who style themselves as green, will have the standard degrees in architectural design and practise, and may have taken additional qualifications to demonstrate their green or environmental knowledge. However, the most important sign of an architects competence in green matters, is their skill and experience. It is one thing working with the environment and the planets ecology, but listening to a clients needs and translating them into a workable design plan is the crucial matter. Related on Sustainable Build...
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To be sustainable in all matters relating to the design; from initial consultation, through to site visit and early designs, right through to liason with builders and if necessary, plan modification. The architect that anyone considering a green building chooses, must be able to demonstrate this, through their portfolio and their approach. Do ask if it is possible to visit any previous projects the architect has worked on, to really get the feel of their eye for work and environmentally friendly detail. Some Aspects of Green Architecture and Design An architect should be able to tell and advise a client what makes a building energy efficient. The architect should also be able to translate the clients ideas into reality, using both common architectural sense, and the most up to date technology and methods. This might include solar panels, thermal mass building construction, green materials, including wood, stone, or earth (or even recycled waste materials, such as tyres or glass or plastic bottles). It is both the design and the construction which can make a building truly sustainable and green, and the architect should pay careful attention to both aspects of the entire process. On a site visit, a green architect should pay close attention to the environment that the potential building site is located within. This should guide the architect in their design, with an intention to respect the immediate ecology of the area, and for a prospective new green building to be in harmony with

this. In the case of an existing building, or a building to be constructed on a so-called brown field site, which is usually in an urban area, where often industrial or residential properties are or have been demolished; the architect should pay particular care to what already is on the site, and how it has been used and treated. Green architecture can be wonderful examples of the possibility of humans living harmoniously within the environment. The opportunities exist to design beautiful, energy efficient and environmentally friendly residences and workplaces that demonstrate our human ability to adapt to and peacefully live within the ecology of the natural world.

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The Green Building: Issues, Approach and Implementation Nowadays, sustainable development is the popular knowledge and the real trend on the world due to the need of humans responsibilities to the environment and green building in construction industry is also a part of this. However, this area is still the new thing for developing countries as Vietnam. There are many people talking about the green or sustainability but its very difficult to understand thoroughly what it really is and how to implement in each case. In green building, there are many important stages to achieve the green result. Among of them, design stage can be considered as the most important one to lead all to the needs. Because of the limitation of this study, it only tries to focus things from concept to design stage for green building and how to implement the green building assessment. The aim of the green building is to reduce the negative impact to the environment. In another word, its also to conserve the natural resource. In order to achieve this aims, the projects must be designed as well as it can maximize the energy saving and minimize the cost for construction by using less energy & water. As the result, all stakeholders of the project need to understand thoroughly what the green is and how to implement it during the project life cycle especially from the concept to design stages that will affect strongly the next stages. Furthermore, one building can only be called the green once it is certificated by an independent

third party with a rating system. Mr. Nguyen Huynh Trung Hai made a study which aimed to: (1) identify what drives green projects; (2) understand the basis of popular green building rating systems especially the BCA Green Mark system (Singapore); (3) study barriers and benefits of green building project in Vietnam; and to suggest the solutions for the barriers; and (4) propose a framework to implement green building in Vietnam. Conclusions The Green building in Vietnam construction industry Based on the issues and problems discussed, it can be said that green building will be the trend and good strategy for developers, consultants and others in Vietnam. Go along with green buildings, there 4 benefits such as: 1. long-term economic 2. productivity 3. the marketing 4. Moreover, the biggest benefits are the good supporting for environment and health for peoples working and living. With the BCA Green Mark (Singapore) for green building assessment, it can be considered a good and suitable system to apply in Vietnam. In BCA, main requirements and criteria for the building are: 1. Energy efficiency 2. Water efficiency 3. Environmental protection 4. Indoor environment quality 5. Other green feature The challenges in implementing the Green building Beside the benefits as mentioned above, the implementation in every country will have the

different challenges. In Vietnam, they will become more difficult such as: lack of the knowledge in terms of technique and technologies because of no previous green building like this. Among the challenges, the key issue is the higher cost for the green project. Moreover, now is the time of economy going down, so this issue is really serious and its very difficult to attract the investors and others who want to joint in the green building. In generally, some main barriers in green building are: 1. Lack of technical and technology 2. Initial cost 3. Real life experience and non-educated green for people Therefore, project management and the whole project team should have the good project plans to lead the project based on the owner and market needs. What drives green projects? From the case study and literature review, there are some main factors that will drive the Green building to success such as: the owners project requirements and motivation use the concept of commission and integrated design process, effective execution. Recommendations For the green building in this report After studying the theories and the case study with the problems, issues and how to implement the green building in Vietnam, the recommendations for effective green building as follow: In the developing country as Vietnam, the green building is the new knowledge for most of people. Moreover, within the economic condition, the higher cost will be the serious barrier to attract the developers and other. So the problem is what the way to solve this issue. The most effective solution is the support from the government and community in term of the money. They can be the good tax and special permit with short time approval to encourage the developers and others.

 Vietnamese construction law should have the basic requirements to catch up the environment issues as the global trend. The government and community have to find the way to popularize the green concept for all residence understanding it basically. With the tropical weather and environment, Vietnam has a lot of natural material such as bamboo, refined brick with very cheap price, present everyplace and can be reused to avoid the impact to the environment. So we have to consider this in spite of using the import material. Combine the concept of eco-design more concern about the aspects of architectural design and the technique, technologies concern about the mechanical aspect - will make the green building more effective. The developer should select the good project team with the green experience and local condition that will affect the project to avoid, reduce and eliminate the risk for the project. All participants who want to join in the green building should start to think about the green with the long-term benefits. Especially this will be the key for the developers who understand what they want and invest their money directly into the projects. All project team should study for their own knowledge of the green building. Finally, the green building requires a high quality. Moreover, with very complicated parties involved, the project management and project team should have a clear, concise organization, roles, duties and responsibilities to avoid the confusing and conflicts. Otherwise, the overrun of time and cost will happen. His thesis abstract is copied and posted. Abstract Nowadays, the sustainable development is the necessary and urgent trend for the global environment. Acting as one of the main parts of economic, construction industry also take part in responsibility for protecting the environment through the building designed with low-impact to

environment. With the green building, there are many benefits to the environment and as the result, its also good for human working and living in life. Because of the limitation of time and scope, this report only try to explore the main issues in the implementation of green building assessment system especially the BCA Green Mark in construction environment in Vietnam. Maybe the BCA Green Mark implemented for the case in this study is not popular in the world as other such as LEED, BREEAM, CASBEE but at least it can explore the typical issues in the green building. From that case, we can learn some helpful lessons and use them as the historical data and references for other green buildings. Keywords: Environment, Responsibility, Protecting, The environment, Building Designed, Lowimpact, Implementation.

What is Project Management?ect.

PMBOK definition

Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques applied to project activities in order to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations from a project.
PMBOK is

The Sustainable Project Management Office

Organizations often struggle with the strategic and tactical value that a PMO can offer. For a PMO to be successful it must deliver measurable value to individual project and program managers and to the organization as a whole. This course addresses how to structure the PMO, sell the concept, and develop a plan for creating an office that serves organizational needs. Once established the PMO plays an integral role in enhancing project and program maturity levels and competencies by providing consulting, coaching, mentoring, process standardization and more. This seminar provides participants with the knowledge and skills to create, manage, and sustain a project management office that delivers value to the enterprise.

Prerequisites
PMP

How to describe the sustainability of a project?

A practical way to describe the potential or achieved sustainability of a project is to use the following two criteria: _ Diversity and intensity of activities/outputs maintained or developed after the end of the funding: Activities/outputs are maintained, i.e. new accreditation procedures (activities) / a curriculum is still used (outputs) Activities/outputs are developed, i.e. needs are assessed annually (activities) / a training centre has developed new training sessions (outputs) Activities/outputs can be disseminated, i.e. creation of a web site presenting e-learning sessions (activities) / Curriculum developed is included in existing courses in universities which do not belong to the initial consortium (outputs) _ Intensity and enlargement of the cooperation: The international network is maintained, i.e. partners take care of the follow-up. The local network is maintained, i.e. the universities meet regularly with the private firms concerned. Finally, the initial network can be enlarged to incorporate other domains or entities, i.e. new universities or research teams join the constituencies. Handbook on Sustainability Page 6 REFERENCE
SUSTAINABILITY OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION PROJECTS IN THE FIELD OF

HIGHER EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING HANDBOOK ON SUSTAINABILITY