PROJECT MANAGEMENT [PMIS]

Project Management [PMIS]

Table of Contents

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY2

INTRODUCTION & PROJECT BACKGROUND2

STAKEHOLDER COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT6

PROJECT MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM7

PROJECT LIFECYCLE9

PROJECT INTEGRATION MANAGEMENT9

PROJECT MONITORING & CHANGE CONTROL11

PROJECT CLOSURE13

CONCLUSIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS13

REFERENCES15

Project Management [PMIS]

Executive Summary

The construction of buildings has a very important impact on the environment, and the process of manufacturing and transporting of building materials, and installing and constructing of buildings consumes This paper presents a case study of GHG emissions in building construction in United Kingdom. The results show that 82-87% of the total GHG emissions are from the embodied GHG emissions of building materials, 6-8% are from the transportation of building materials, and 6-9% are due to the energy consumption of construction equipment. The results also indicate that embodied GHG emissions of concrete and reinforced steel account for 94-95% of those of all building materials, and thus the use of recycled building materials, especially reinforced steel, would decrease the GHG emissions by a considerable amount.

Introduction & Project Background

The practical case, One Peking, is a commercial building in United Kingdom, of which the construction started in August 2001 and completed in April 2003, and this building achieved the highest HK-BEAM rating of Excellent upon building completion in 2003. More description of One Peking is shown in Table 1, and the building materials used in the construction of One Peking are shown in Table 2. In Table 2, the distances from country of origin of the building materials to One Peking construction site are with reference to EMSD, except for the ready mix concrete which is assumed as 20 km. The quantity of ready mix concrete and reinforcement bars and the total quantity of all building materials are definite, which are in EMSD. While the quantities of other building materials are not available according to reference, they may be calculated by the proportion of the building material (imported quantity of the material from the country of origin to United Kingdom in 2002 divided by total imported quantity of all the listed materials in Table 2 in 2002) multiplying the total quantity of all building materials except ready mix concrete and reinforcement bars (which equals 21,547.8 tons). Taking glass, for example, the quantity of glass imported from China to United Kingdom in 2002 was 73,706,150 tons and the total imported quantity of all the listed materials in Table 2 in 2002 was 8,344,141,627 tons, so the proportion of glass is 0.88% (73,706,150/8,344,141,627); and then multiplying the total quantity of all building materials except ready mix concrete and reinforcement bars (21,547.8 tons), we can get the quantity of glass (190.3 tons). In Table 2, CO2 emission factor is referenced by Andrew and González and Navarro, and GHG emission factor is adjusted by reckoning in CH4 and N2O, using the statistical data in EEA, wherein for 28 countries in Europe, for public power, production processes and road transport categories, CH4 and N2O account for 0.0144% and 0.0219% of CO2, and the global warming potential of CH4 and N2O is 21 and 310. But for timber, because the proportion data of CO2 emission from manufacture of ...