Sustainable building projects have levels of complexity over conventional building projects that challenge current projectmanagement tools at efficiently managing the rigors of sustainable projects.The Continuous Valu...Sustainable building projects have levels of complexity over conventional building projects that challenge current projectmanagement tools at efficiently managing the rigors of sustainable projects.The Continuous Value EnhancementProcess(CVEP)is a recently developed tool designed specifically for sustainable building projects.This project managementtool enables project teams to systematically generate and evaluate project alternatives for meeting sustainable goals.The goal of this tool is to identify high performance solutions that increase levels of sustainability and improve projectperformance.CVEP was experimentally implemented and tested on four case study projects to evaluate its ability tosupport project management decision making in ways that elevate sustainability and project performance.Reported inthis paper,the results show CVEP produced first cost and life cycle cost savings.In particular,the study confirms thatCVEP has the capability to:1.)Provide a systematic evaluation process,2.)Collect high performance building solutions,and 3.)Be applicable to different project types.These results show that it is possible to employ targeted projectmanagement techniques,like CVEP,to improve the cost-effective provision of sustainable buildings.展开更多
文摘Sustainable building projects have levels of complexity over conventional building projects that challenge current projectmanagement tools at efficiently managing the rigors of sustainable projects.The Continuous Value EnhancementProcess(CVEP)is a recently developed tool designed specifically for sustainable building projects.This project managementtool enables project teams to systematically generate and evaluate project alternatives for meeting sustainable goals.The goal of this tool is to identify high performance solutions that increase levels of sustainability and improve projectperformance.CVEP was experimentally implemented and tested on four case study projects to evaluate its ability tosupport project management decision making in ways that elevate sustainability and project performance.Reported inthis paper,the results show CVEP produced first cost and life cycle cost savings.In particular,the study confirms thatCVEP has the capability to:1.)Provide a systematic evaluation process,2.)Collect high performance building solutions,and 3.)Be applicable to different project types.These results show that it is possible to employ targeted projectmanagement techniques,like CVEP,to improve the cost-effective provision of sustainable buildings.
