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Sustainable Project Management, Planning and Procurement

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 December 2023) | Viewed by 8395

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Yan Ning

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School of Management and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210008, China
Interests: sustainable project management; project governance
Dr. Yan Liu

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Guest Editor
School of Management and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210008, China
Interests: learning within and across large infrastructure projects; inter-organizational collaboration; innovation networks/ecosystem; digital transformation and digital innovation
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Climate change, natural disasters, environmental pollution, and the COVID-19 pandemic are significantly impacting our life. To deal with these severe challenges, we need a fundamental transformation to make our living environment inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable. In recent decades, there has been growing interest in the intersection of project management and sustainability. On the one hand, projects are used as a vehicle to achieve sustainable development goals. Various initiatives could be managed through project management theories and methods. Project management thus provides significant momentum to strive for sustainability. On the other hand, sustainability reshapes and transforms project management from the traditional time–cost–quality iron triangle to pursue sustainable development goals. Thus, managing, planning and procuring sustainable projects in this way will be significantly different from traditional approaches.

This Special Issue aims to advance the knowledge of how sustainable project management, planning and procurement can tackle the above challenges.

We invite submissions to reflect on the following subjects:

  • Sustainable projects and their management as a vehicle to achieve SDGs:
  • What are the specificities of sustainable projects’ institutional and organizational contexts?
  • What are the value and benefits of sustainable project management beyond the Iron Triangle?
  • How do multi-stakeholders collaborate on temporary projects but with long-lasting impacts?
  • How does a project's dark side (collusive bidding, corruption, etc.) harm sustainability?
  • What are the enabling mechanisms to promote the co-creation of different stakeholders?
  • Translating sustainability goals into planning and procurement:
  • How does the early involvement of contractors contribute to improving circular construction?
  • What should be considered when calculating the costs of going green, and how should trade-offs be established?
  • How do you develop and implement an ESG strategy in a project?
  • How can the ecosystem philosophy be used as an inspiration to redefine the project's collaborative relationships?
  • What are the procurement methods and collaboration forms needed to achieve SDGs?

We invite conceptual and empirical papers based on quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Yan Ning
Dr. Yan Liu
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • sustainable development
  • project management
  • project governance
  • program management
  • project procurement
  • project planning

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Enhancing Fire Resilience in High-Tech Electronic Plants for Sustainable Development: Combining System Composition with Organizational Management
by Xianghua Xu, Ningshuang Zeng, Mengmei Li, Yan Liu and Qiming Li
Sustainability 2024, 16(4), 1501; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16041501 - 09 Feb 2024
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In the realm of sustainable advancements, high-tech electronics plants have evolved concomitantly with the innovations in environmentally conscious high-tech manufacturing. Nonetheless, the potential for fires in these establishments presents a profound challenge, jeopardizing both human resources and assets, while also bearing ecological implications. [...] Read more.
In the realm of sustainable advancements, high-tech electronics plants have evolved concomitantly with the innovations in environmentally conscious high-tech manufacturing. Nonetheless, the potential for fires in these establishments presents a profound challenge, jeopardizing both human resources and assets, while also bearing ecological implications. However, difficulty exists in understanding the system composition and fire protection features specific to the production environment. Meanwhile, sustainable development-oriented organizational countermeasures for fire resilience are rarely explored in the operations environment. Through a literature review, hypotheses development, an industrial survey, and PLS-SEM analysis using data from 84 questionnaires, this research aims to fill this gap by analyzing the system composition of high-tech electronics plants and its influence on fire resilience, emphasizing the organizational perspective. This study delves into the fire resilience of high-tech electronics plants, drawing particular attention to the imperative of fire prevention, detection, and mitigation measures. The discourse is framed within the paradigm of design-for-sustainability thinking, underscoring the integration of sustainable practices in enhancing fire resilience. By examining the interplay between various functional and organizational system composition elements, three key aspects are extracted to enhance fire resilience: (1) fire protection design measure improvement, (2) sustainable and fireproof construction facility, and (3) organizational management support. The findings contribute to a better understanding of the complex nature of high-tech electronics plants, and provide actionable insights for enhancing both fire resilience and sustainable practices in these establishments. Full article
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Automated Mapping Methodology and Case Study of Healthcare User Activities and Spaces from a Sustainable Perspective
by Xuekelaiti Haiyirete, Jian Wang, Xiaochang Gan, Xinjie Liu and Ayiguzhali Tuluhong
Sustainability 2024, 16(3), 1241; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16031241 - 01 Feb 2024
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Operational inefficiencies in healthcare buildings and sustainability issues have become increasingly prominent. The root cause of this phenomenon is the irregular and incomplete structured data related to hospital user activities and spaces that are difficult to resolve using traditional manual methods. In order [...] Read more.
Operational inefficiencies in healthcare buildings and sustainability issues have become increasingly prominent. The root cause of this phenomenon is the irregular and incomplete structured data related to hospital user activities and spaces that are difficult to resolve using traditional manual methods. In order to solve this problem, an automated mapping approach is presented for hospital user activity and space. Using the Revit API technology and the C# language on the Visual Studio platform, a program for automated mapping is developed. It achieves the automatic mapping of hospital user activities and spaces, along with automatic calculation of utilization rates. An illustrative case study is conducted, focusing on the activity data and building space utilization of healthcare users at Shanghai Renji Hospital. The results indicate that (1) This method can realize the automatic combination of hospital user activities and hospital spaces, and hospital administrators can optimize the utilization rate of hospital spaces quickly and accurately. (2) This approach is highly adaptable, especially to changes in hospital user activities and hospital spatial data. (3) This method promotes the sustainable development of healthcare buildings and has great practical application value. Full article
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Evaluating the Role of the Communication Skills of Engineering Students on Employability According to the Outcome-Based Education (OBE) Theory
by Ying Wu, Lin Xu and Simon P. Philbin
Sustainability 2023, 15(12), 9711; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15129711 - 17 Jun 2023
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With the advent of the digital age and Industry 4.0, the communication skills of engineering students has been exerting gradually increasing influence on the need for enhanced student employability. To address this issue, this study evaluates the influence of communication skills on the [...] Read more.
With the advent of the digital age and Industry 4.0, the communication skills of engineering students has been exerting gradually increasing influence on the need for enhanced student employability. To address this issue, this study evaluates the influence of communication skills on the employability of engineering students from the aspects of verbal and non-verbal skills through the four key elements of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) theory. A total of 130 college engineering students and practitioners participated in the questionnaire survey, and the hypotheses were tested by regression analysis and a structural equation model (SEM). The results show that in the digital age, the verbal (p < 0.01) and non-verbal (p < 0.001) components of students’ communication skills play a significant role in the employability of engineering students. Meanwhile, the employer’s assessment simultaneously makes a significant contribution to the further improvement of students’ communication skills, which can help educators further cultivate and improve students’ communication skills through the assessment of their employability by employers. Therefore, this research has theoretical and practical significance, which not only enriches the basic theoretical knowledge, but also broadens the training methods of engineering students in the digital age, thus enhancing their employability. Full article
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Inter-Organizational Collaboration in Interconnected Infrastructure Projects
by Maryam R. Nezami, Mark L. C. de Bruijne, Marcel J. C. M. Hertogh and Hans L. M. Bakker
Sustainability 2023, 15(8), 6721; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15086721 - 16 Apr 2023
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This study aims to identify which factors affect inter-organizational collaboration (IOC) in interconnected infrastructure projects to enable practitioners to establish a collaborative environment at the project level. This specific form of inter-organizational collaboration (IOC) is characterized as “horizontal” and has received limited attention [...] Read more.
This study aims to identify which factors affect inter-organizational collaboration (IOC) in interconnected infrastructure projects to enable practitioners to establish a collaborative environment at the project level. This specific form of inter-organizational collaboration (IOC) is characterized as “horizontal” and has received limited attention in the literature. To this end, a systematic literature review and Q-methodology were conducted. The Q-methodology involves practitioners from various infrastructure organizations in the Netherlands gaining insights into their perspectives on IOC in interconnected infrastructure projects. The study identifies two perspectives: a “holistic, goal-oriented” perspective that recognizes various dimensions of IOC and a more “people-oriented” perspective that emphasizes the value of individual factors for IOC. The findings suggest that multiple perspectives on collaboration exist among practitioners, potentially affecting collaboration in interconnected infrastructure projects. Awareness of the need to manage practitioners’ perspectives, and addressing and discussing these differences, can stimulate inter-organizational collaboration and contribute to improved project performance. Full article
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