Robust Management Practices Lead to Sustainable Lifecycle Building Management

By peter.cholakis@verizon.netSustainable Lifecycle Building Management

ROBUST PRACTICES IMPROVE SUSTAINABLE LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT OF BUILDINGS

Sustainable lifecycle building management requires:

– Integrated Planning, Procurement, and Project Management Teams
– Owner Leadership, Capacity, and Commitment
– Common Data Environment – (Example: Objective, Current, Granular, and Locally Researched Labor, Material, and Equipment Costs and Tasks)
– Adoption and Continuous Improvement of robust Integrated Project Delivery frameworks, including collaborative Job Order Contracting (https://lnkd.in/gDZ8j_Pt).

The goal of sustainable development is to achieve a state of sustainability for society as a whole and for the planet.

Collaborative repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction, sustainability and the life cycle management of buildings are interrelated.

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Sustainable Lifecycle Building Management
Productivity and innovation have a direct relationship with sustainability

 

BUILDING LIFECYCLE ELEMENTS  – Social, Economic, Environmental

1. Definition of physical and funtional needs including environmental needs and project
requirements (users) / Project Requirements Development.
2. Definition of planning, procurement, and project delivery execution methods and teams;
4. Construction
5. Use, operation and maintenance of the building; and
6. Demolition/Reuse

Construction and building management activities have a major effect on the environment, human health and the economy in general.

Environmental: Avoiding pollution, protectiing and
improving biodiversity, improving energy efficiency
and the efficient use of resources;

Social: Respecting staff/project participants, relationship with local
communities and establishment of long term, mutually beneficiao partnerships;

Economic: Increasing productivity/reducing waste  and improving/monitoring project performance
versus goals.

Real property owners must meet the challenges of sustainable building lifecycle mangement, continuous improvement, waste elimination, a stronger focus on the user, the need to increase the value for money coupled with high quality project management and improved supply chains and communications.

Traditional “project devlivery methods”, design-bid-build, design-build…  are limited and have low sustainability as they do not fully address aspects of people’s individual and collective behaviors.