EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (ABSTRACT)
The Seventh-day Adventist Church as a global organization is well organized, and manages large projects remarkably well. However, individual churches are not well organized and do not have access to the professional mechanisms used to manage projects at the global level. This has led to numerous cost overruns and significant construction delays. These buildings are usually built as monies are made available. In some cases and in the case under study, the mission has provided monetary contributions but no mechanism for supervision was identified or defined. As at present the body of believers do not have a church building of their own. However, funds and property have been secured and the blueprints are before the planning authority, awaiting approval or recommendation of further changes. In addition, the completed buildings do not provide evidence of any intentional integration of sustainability.
There is a growing body of knowledge that supports and outlines the benefits to be obtained when construction activities are planned in keeping with sustainable best practices. These should be deliberately integrated into the entire life cycle of the building, which would help to determine how efficient the building be during its utilization phase. Also, as part of a community that is growing more and more concerned about our posterity, we cannot negate our individual corporate and social responsibility to respect the unassailable rights of all to a quality life, free from environmental dilapidation and uncertainty.
There are benefits that may be derived from the integration process. Firstly, the church will be able to create a culture of planning for better accountability, especially at the lowest levels where close supervision and strict accountability are required. The church and other building professionals will also be sensitized to the magnanimous need to think, live and build sustainably.
The general objective was “to develop a Project Management Plan that integrates sustainable principles to optimize the utilization of project resources during the construction of the Faith in Emmanuel Seventh-day Adventist Church, to be built in St. Kitts.” and the specific objectives were; to create a sustainable scope management plan that defines and decomposes the scope into work packages, to create a sustainable time management plan for identifying and decomposing project deliveries into more manageable work packages that can be tracked, to create a sustainable cost management plan for assigning cost to work packages and determination of project budget, to develop a sustainable quality management plan for outlining the minimum stakeholder acceptance criteria, to create a human resource management plan for assigning resources to work packages in a manner that complies with international laws and conventions on labor, to develop a sustainable communications management plan for defining clearly the project communication strategies and line of reporting authority, to create a sustainable risk management plan that identifies risks and risk responses for risk directly
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related to the project and those that have sustainability implications, to develop sustainable procurement management plan for identifying and assigning contracts to suppliers who are able to procure sustainable goods and services.to develop a stakeholders management plan that identifies key stakeholders, their level of interests and analyses how their influence might impact the project.
The development of this project relied on case study as the primary research methodology. This methodology was chosen because of its significance and perfect alignment with applied research. The combination of applied and pure research was used because of the practical applicability to the Final Graduation Project (FGP) and its general employment by practitioners such as project managers and construction professionals. Information was obtained from a variety of sources including observations, interviews, meeting proceedings, books, and internet sources. The data was organized using templates.
Having explored the objectives outlined previously, it can be concluded that the need for sustainability in projects are of vital importance if we are to meet our global goals of reducing greenhouse gases and in order to keep the earth’s temperature from exceeding more than 2°C. Projects Integrating Sustainable Methods PRISM® may still hold tremendous value for integrating sustainability into projects. This may require skill and time for specific methods of integration to be developed and explored. Integrating sustainability in projects is possible and the benefits to be derived will positively impact people, planet, product, process and profit of participating organizations.
It is highly recommended that the problem of sustainability be further explored and a methodology be developed that makes it easier for the integration of sustainability into construction projects. The region of Latin America and the Caribbean has been slow in keeping pace with the wider world in their efforts to curb and reverse climate change. This lack of initiative not only imperils the earth’s ecosystems but also suggests our dereliction of duty, exposes the region to the effects of drastic and consequential international change. Therefore, our region must unite and build sustainable models that fit the unique needs of the region. Only when clear methodologies and processes for specifically integrating sustainability into construction projects are refined, that there will be a propensity toward a sustainable future.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church as a global organization is well organized, and manages large projects remarkably well. However, individual churches are not well organized and do not have access to the professional mechanisms used to manage projects at the global level. This has led to numerous cost overruns and significant construction delays. These buildings are usually built as monies are made available. In some cases and in the case under study, the mission has provided monetary contributions but no mechanism for supervision was identified or defined. As at present the body of believers do not have a church building of their own. However, funds and property have been secured and the blueprints are before the planning authority, awaiting approval or recommendation of further changes. In addition, the completed buildings do not provide evidence of any intentional integration of sustainability.
There is a growing body of knowledge that supports and outlines the benefits to be obtained when construction activities are planned in keeping with sustainable best practices. These should be deliberately integrated into the entire life cycle of the building, which would help to determine how efficient the building be during its utilization phase. Also, as part of a community that is growing more and more concerned about our posterity, we cannot negate our individual corporate and social responsibility to respect the unassailable rights of all to a quality life, free from environmental dilapidation and uncertainty.
There are benefits that may be derived from the integration process. Firstly, the church will be able to create a culture of planning for better accountability, especially at the lowest levels where close supervision and strict accountability are required. The church and other building professionals will also be sensitized to the magnanimous need to think, live and build sustainably.
The general objective was “to develop a Project Management Plan that integrates sustainable principles to optimize the utilization of project resources during the construction of the Faith in Emmanuel Seventh-day Adventist Church, to be built in St. Kitts.” and the specific objectives were; to create a sustainable scope management plan that defines and decomposes the scope into work packages, to create a sustainable time management plan for identifying and decomposing project deliveries into more manageable work packages that can be tracked, to create a sustainable cost management plan for assigning cost to work packages and determination of project budget, to develop a sustainable quality management plan for outlining the minimum stakeholder acceptance criteria, to create a human resource management plan for assigning resources to work packages in a manner that complies with international laws and conventions on labor, to develop a sustainable communications management plan for defining clearly the project communication strategies and line of reporting authority, to create a sustainable risk management plan that identifies risks and risk responses for risk directly
xii
related to the project and those that have sustainability implications, to develop sustainable procurement management plan for identifying and assigning contracts to suppliers who are able to procure sustainable goods and services.to develop a stakeholders management plan that identifies key stakeholders, their level of interests and analyses how their influence might impact the project.
The development of this project relied on case study as the primary research methodology. This methodology was chosen because of its significance and perfect alignment with applied research. The combination of applied and pure research was used because of the practical applicability to the Final Graduation Project (FGP) and its general employment by practitioners such as project managers and construction professionals. Information was obtained from a variety of sources including observations, interviews, meeting proceedings, books, and internet sources. The data was organized using templates.
Having explored the objectives outlined previously, it can be concluded that the need for sustainability in projects are of vital importance if we are to meet our global goals of reducing greenhouse gases and in order to keep the earth’s temperature from exceeding more than 2°C. Projects Integrating Sustainable Methods PRISM® may still hold tremendous value for integrating sustainability into projects. This may require skill and time for specific methods of integration to be developed and explored. Integrating sustainability in projects is possible and the benefits to be derived will positively impact people, planet, product, process and profit of participating organizations.
It is highly recommended that the problem of sustainability be further explored and a methodology be developed that makes it easier for the integration of sustainability into construction projects. The region of Latin America and the Caribbean has been slow in keeping pace with the wider world in their efforts to curb and reverse climate change. This lack of initiative not only imperils the earth’s ecosystems but also suggests our dereliction of duty, exposes the region to the effects of drastic and consequential international change. Therefore, our region must unite and build sustainable models that fit the unique needs of the region. Only when clear methodologies and processes for specifically integrating sustainability into construction projects are refined, that there will be a propensity toward a sustainable future.
