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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2021) | Viewed by 42157

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Dr. Reza Kiani Mavi

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School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University (ECU), Joondalup campus, Joondalup, WA 6027, Australia
Interests: sustainability; project management and control; supply chain management; data envelopment analysis

Prof. Dr. Denise Gengatharen

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School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University (ECU), Joondalup campus, Joondalup, WA 6027, Australia
Interests: project management; knowledge management

Dr. Ross Yates

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School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University (ECU), Joondalup campus, Joondalup, WA 6027, Australia
Interests: project management; business systems analysis

Dr. Alistair Campbell

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School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University (ECU), Joondalup campus, Joondalup, WA 6027, Australia
Interests: project management; entrepreneurship; innovation

Mr. Richard Hughes

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School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University (ECU), Joondalup campus, Joondalup, WA 6027, Australia
Interests: applied project management; project quality and risk

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Dear Colleagues,

Project stakeholders are increasingly emphasizing sustainable, green, and eco-friendly endeavors during a project’s life cycle. To produce sustainable deliverables, the project team needs to follow sustainable processes during project delivery. In this context, project control is used to measure and ideally guarantee project sustainability in terms of performance indicators. For example, some of the main government agencies are publishing sustainability statements on their websites. Theoretically, this should flow into projects that they undertake. Assuming that the project plan has been created on the basis of sustainability principles, the contractors and subcontractors may not followed these if doing so results in further delas to a project. By then, it is probably too late to make amends given the focus on the triple constraints (time, cost, and scope). Sustainable project management (SPM) helps organizations with how projects are performed, managed, measured, and controlled. Therefore, SPM positively influences project success by reducing the negative social and environmental impacts of projects. However, many project organizations are confronting significant challenges to integrating sustainability into their project management.

This Special Issue (SI) aims to discuss the innovative approaches to managing sustainability in projects. This SI will contribute to an integrated and holistic understanding of the importance of sustainability, challenges of embedding sustainability in projects, and innovative solutions to overcome those challenges. Original academic research papers (quantitative and qualitative) and review studies containing the latest findings in the field of sustainable project management and control are welcome. Case studies from different industries or projects such as oil and gas, construction, manufacturing, transportation, mining, education, information technology, medical and health, not-for-profit, business development, agriculture, etc. are welcome.

The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following:

Sustainable project management processes and knowledge areas
Sustainable and green procurement practices
Sustainability and project success
Social responsibility in projects
Agency dilemma in project management
Corporate governance in project management and control
Risk management for sustainable projects
Case studies of sustainable project management and control
Sustainable benefits realization management
Sustainability-oriented project control
Contractors and sub-contractors for sustainable project management and control
Eco-innovation and project management
Circular economy and project management
Sustainability policies and resources
Sustainability of systems and processes (including IT) in project management

Sustainable waste management in projects

Dr. Reza Kiani Mavi
Prof. Dr. Denise Gengatharen
Dr. Ross Yates
Dr. Alistair Campbell
Mr. Richard Hughes
Guest Editors

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Sustainability
Project management
Innovation
Project success
Sustainability policy

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A New Product Development Model for SMEs: Introducing Agility to the Plan-Driven Concurrent Product Development Approach

by Tena Žužek, Žiga Gosar, Janez Kušar and Tomaž Berlec

Sustainability 2021, 13(21), 12159; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su132112159 - 04 Nov 2021

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In order to survive in today’s highly competitive global market, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have had to transition from sequential to concurrent product development, which significantly shortens development cycles, reduces costs, and ensures high product quality. Despite its many benefits, concurrent product development is still based on detailed upfront planning and cannot address the challenges related to today’s ever-growing uncertainty, constantly changing environment, and unstable requirements. A potential solution to this problem could be in more flexible and value-driven agile project management (APM) approaches, typical of software development. In this paper, we propose a new product development model specifically appropriate for SMEs that combines concurrent product development principles with APM elements. It is designed as a loop of five repetitive steps (macroplan, microplan, iteration activities, review, and retrospective) that are being executed within individual concurrent development loops. The application of the model is presented on a real case example of process development and small batch manufacture of a complex wiring harness. The study reveals many benefits of the proposed model, such as improved communication, faster detection of discrepancies, more effective problem solving, and greater flexibility. A positive impact on project success is also observed. Full article

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Implementing Concurrent Engineering and QFD Method to Achieve Realization of Sustainable Project

by Lidija Rihar and Janez Kušar

Sustainability 2021, 13(3), 1091; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13031091 - 21 Jan 2021

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In this paper, we present the impact of concurrent engineering strategies, methods, and tools on product sustainability. Concurrent engineering can be used to achieve the primary goals of a product realization project: lower costs, shorter times, high quality, and increasing value. Currently, it is important that new products also meet product sustainability goals, such as economic, environmental, and social goals. The sustainability of a product can be influenced the most in the early stages of product development, so in this paper, we present a customized quality function deployment (QFD) method called the house of sustainability, which translates sustainability requirements into technical solutions for a product. A seven-step process for implementing a sustainable product realization project is also proposed, in which the house of sustainability is one of the most important tools. The proposed process is illustrated with an example of a concurrent product realization project in engineering to order production. Full article

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Interrelations among Leadership Competencies of BIM Leaders: A Fuzzy DEMATEL-ANP Approach

by Seyed Armin Mirhosseini, Reza Kiani Mavi, Neda Kiani Mavi, Behzad Abbasnejad and Farzaneh Rayani

Sustainability 2020, 12(18), 7830; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su12187830 - 22 Sep 2020

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The use of new, digitally enabled innovations, such as building information modeling (BIM), raises issues such as the delineation of a competent leader. Even though BIM-based competency assessment models have become essential tools for maximizing the potential values of BIM implementation, the current competency models provide limited focus on leadership aspects that facilitate and enhance the BIM implementation efforts. This paper seeks to identify the specific competencies required for BIM implementation and examines the relationships between these competencies. Thirty-two experts from around the globe investigated a total of 15 leadership competencies under three categories pertaining to intellectual, managerial, and emotional leadership. Fuzzy Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) was implemented to examine the cause-and-effect relationships among the BIM leadership competencies and fuzzy analytic network process (ANP) was performed to weigh those competencies. Findings show that the intellectual competencies act as the cause group, while managerial and emotional competencies are the effect groups. Moreover, the involving leadership is found to be the more suitable leadership style for BIM professionals, given the current capability and maturity levels of BIM implementation, in order to deal with the required changes throughout the BIM implementation process. This study contributes to the existing body of knowledge in the BIM domain to examine the associated leadership competencies by using the multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) technique. The results of this research show the relative importance of criteria and sub-criteria, which contributes to further improvement of BIM leadership. Full article

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Sustainability in Construction Projects: A Systematic Literature Review

by Reza Kiani Mavi, Denise Gengatharen, Neda Kiani Mavi, Richard Hughes, Alistair Campbell and Ross Yates

Sustainability 2021, 13(4), 1932; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13041932 - 11 Feb 2021

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This paper aims to identify the major research concepts studied in the literature of sustainability in construction projects. Two bibliometric analysis tools—(a) BibExcel and (b) Gephi, were used to analyze the bibliometrics indices of papers and visualize their interrelations as a network, respectively. Therefore, a research focus parallelship network (RFPN) analysis and keyword co-occurrence network (KCON) analysis were performed to uncover the primary research themes. The RFPN analysis clustered the studies into three major categories of evaluating sustainability, project management for sustainability, and drivers of sustainable construction. The KCON analysis revealed that while each paper had a different focus, the underlying concept of all clusters was sustainability, construction, and project management. We found that while ‘sustainability’ was the leading keyword in the first cluster, i.e., evaluating sustainability, it was the second top keyword with the eigenvector centrality of over 0.94 in the other two clusters. We also found that the concept of sustainability should be included in construction projects from the early stages of design and feasibility studies and must be monitored throughout the project life. This review showed that previous researchers used a variety of statistical and mathematical techniques such as structural equation modelling and fuzzy decision-making methods to study sustainability in construction projects. Using an integrated approach to identifying the research gaps in this area, this paper provides researchers with insights on how to frame new research to study sustainability in construction projects. Full article

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