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Abstract
Sustainable development represents a major challenge of the 21st century. Organizations use projects to implement strategic corporate objectives, exploring sustainable development from a project management perspective is imperative. While current project management techniques are well defined in terms of content and process to manage the budget-scope-time constraint, availability of organization resources and ability to adopt project governance strategies in a changing business environment, like incorporating sustainability in business process is ambiguous, literature has not explored how to cope with a normative situation like sustainability. We consider Small-to-Mid-Size-Construction-Organizations (SMSCOs), which makes up the largest portion of the project-based industry and are most impacted by new government regulations, as our population of interest. This paper addresses two primary objectives in relation to organizational resources available for SMSCOs: to identify an organization's shortcomings in undertaking a sustainable project, and to identify means for improving organizational readiness to cope with governance of sustainable projects. A case study with a SMSCO to understand activities, resource availability, and how to improve organization readiness to undertake projects related to sustainability is discussed. A conceptual framework is presented for the adoptive project governance process to ensure resource constrained organizations like SMSCO's can align better to govern such projects.
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Saumyendu Ghosh
Saumyendu GHOSH received Master's degrees in Statistics from the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India and in Engineering, and PhD (Project Management) from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He has held a number of ERP and CRM Project Director positions in the Commercial Sector and has implemented enterprise-wide applications in 22 different countries in the world. He also teaches Global Project Management and Project Governance at the University of Maryland – University College, USA, School of Business, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA and Penn State – York Campus, PA, USA as an adjunct faculty. His primary research interests include project governance and sustainability for large and enterprise application complex projects. He is a senior member of IEEE and governor of IEEE Engineering Management Society in 2007. His research interests include project governance for complex enterprise transforming IT projects.
Lauren Buckler
Lauren BUCKLER, P.E., CEM, LEED AP is the Director of The Office of Energy Performance & Conservation for Maryland's Department of General Services. She began her career providing construction management services for education and retail clients including LEED facilities, and then moved into the design field focusing on energy efficient mechanical systems. Prior to joining the State, she consulted on energy & sustainability initiatives for government clients and internal company operations. She is a licensed mechanical engineer, certified energy manager and leadership in Energy and Environmental Design accredited professional. Her experience includes design, construction, & program management for a variety of facility types.
Mirosław J. Skibniewski
Mirosław J. SKIBNIEWSKI is a Professor of Construction Engineering at the Center of Excellence in Project Management in the A. J. Clark School of Engineering the at the University of Maryland, College Park (USA). He holds his Master of Eng. in Civil Engineering from Warsaw University of Technology (Poland) and MSc and PhD degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA). He is an author or co-author of over 240 publications on a broad range of topics related to engineering project management, information technology and automation engineering applied in construction and other project-based industries. He is a recipient of numerous U.S. and international research awards, including an honorary doctorate from Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (Lithuania).
Sam Negahban
Sam NEGAHBAN has twenty nine years of project management, business development, project engineering, and business ownership experience. Currently he is managing Brawner Builders Inc.'s facilities renovation programs for Federal, State, and local agencies. He has successfully developed a program to allow Brawner Builders, Inc. to compete and be awarded multiple Task Order, IDIQ, On-Call, Time & Material, Design Build Contracts. In addition, he has developed and managed a team that is currently competing successfully in public and private sector construction contracting. Other demonstrated abilities include strategic planning, scheduling, estimating, bidding, contract negotiations, and consistent building excellence as shown by client satisfaction and consistent successful engagements. Over the last twenty years, he has developed an expertise for completing projects for Universities and local school districts under severe budgetary and time constraints. These projects have consisted of renovations to: dormitories, lecture halls, class rooms, theaters, sport facilities, laboratories, and offices.
Young Hoon Kwak
Young Hoon KWAK is an Associate Professor at the Department of Decision Sciences at The George Washington University School of Business in Washington, D.C. He earned his MSc and PhD in Engineering and Project Management as well as Management of Technology (MOT) Certificate, all from the University of California at Berkeley. He currently holds a Guest Research Professor position at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Ghent University in Belgium. He serves as a Specialty Editor (Associate Editor) for the case studies section of the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management (ASCE) and an Associate Editor for Journal of Management in Engineering and serves on the editorial board for a number of other journals. His primary research interests include project management and control, project performance evaluation and improvement, management of technology, and engineering, construction, and infrastructure project management.
