Project: Sustainable Home Renovation - Analysis & Implementation

This project report details a sustainable home renovation initiative, emphasizing project management principles. It explores the project cycle, including identification, preparation, appraisal, implementation, operation, and evaluation phases. The report includes a project charter, organizational chart, resource allocation, and staffing plans. It examines project timelines, Gantt charts, and budget allocation. The core focus is on incorporating sustainable practices such as energy-efficient equipment, durable construction, rainwater harvesting, and waste management. The project aims to reduce resource consumption and promote eco-friendly practices, targeting cost-effectiveness, energy efficiency, and resource optimization. The report also analyzes market demand, consumer segments, and environmental factors, along with PESTLE analysis. The implementation plan outlines short, medium, and long-term goals, emphasizing the development of sustainable homes using green technologies and materials.

Name of the Student:
Maitha Rashed - 1026803
Khalid Al Beshr - 1074266
Salem Al Neyadi - 1071324
Saeed Al Falahi - 1070611
SUSTAINABLE HOME RENOVATION

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................1
Project Background................................................................................................................1
1. PROJECT CYCLE.................................................................................................................2
Project Identification..............................................................................................................2
Preparation..............................................................................................................................3
Appraisal.................................................................................................................................4
Implementation.......................................................................................................................7
Operation................................................................................................................................8
Evaluation...............................................................................................................................8
2. Project Charter.......................................................................................................................9
3. PMO organizational chart....................................................................................................11
4. Project resources..................................................................................................................12
5. Staffing plan of the project...................................................................................................13
6. Managing progress of the project.........................................................................................19
CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................19
REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................20
INDEX OF TABLES
Table 1 Budget...........................................................................................................................6
INDEX OF FIGURES
Figure 1 Project timeline...........................................................................................................5
Figure 2 Gantt chart..................................................................................................................5
Figure 3 Organizational chart.................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Role of project management gets increases due to a skill of time management
involved in it which helps a user in accomplishing all the tasks before the stipulated timeline
to remain in the competition. Competition is directly associated with the survival; of the
business in the external market which an entity tries to avoid by investing its resources and
time in an effective methodology to get better output in return. Sustainable home renovations
topic consider for this assignment in which a project manager accomplishes the goals of the
entire project in a timeline given by the client. This will include detailed information about
this project by discussing the background behind the selection of this topic and then
describing each constituent of the project cycle including identification, preparation,
appraisal, implementation, operation and evaluation (Nath, Priya & Robin, 2019, pp. 312-
323). All these stages of a project cycle utilize in assessing the entire project effectively to
know the final outcome of this project. After explaining the project cycle the next step is to
include the project organizational chart to show the roles and the responsibilities of all the
employees working on this project and also to know about the reporting channels as who will
report to who with the help of this organization chart (García-Ayllón, 2018, 1408-1421).
Another step will involve the staffing and resources plan and lastly, the progress of this
project is tracked by the project manager after collecting the separate reports of all of the
sections separately (Higham, Barlow, Bichard & Richards, 2018, 315-353).
Project Background
Considering today’s global warming problems everyone wants to get rid of this issue
by adopting sustainable ways and the approaches to make their life better. The trend of
sustainability is spreading from one person to another as people start to care more about their
lives and the whole environment in which they are living (Wu, Guo, Huang, Liu & Xiang,
2018, 2389-2406). People understand the significance of the environment and its direct effect
on their lives that is why they are adapting with the environment in enhancing its quality by
using sustainable practices. The theme of the current assignment is ‘Sustainable home
renovations’ which steals the attention of its majority of the users (Park, Lee & Chang, 2018,
658). Highlights of this project involve the usage of sustainable practices in renovating a
house such as energy saving equipment’s, increasing house durability, sustainable
construction methodologies, rainwater harvesting, waste management, eco-friendly
equipment’s (Martiskainen & Kivimaa, 2018, 15-31). Core objectives of this project will act
as a critical pillar that bears the load of the entire project are mention below:
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 To complete the project within the stipulated time period and the mentioned timeline
 To make sustainable development
 To establish homes
 To decrease the resource consumption in this project
In this project, Three ‘R’ is used such as Reduce, Recycle and Reuse as this methodology
will help in achieving the objective of this project to renovate the house at an affordable price
by utilizing the current materials of the house by hanging its layout instead of purchasing new
materials (Nassereddine, Nagrial, Rizk & Hellany, 2018, pp. 1-6). Different perspectives of
this project will include cost-efficient, energy efficient, quality efficient and resource efficient
to accomplish all the desired goals within a given span of time.
1. PROJECT CYCLE
Project Identification
It is one of a stage in a project life cycle whose aim is to use project identification
techniques to analyse the internal or external factors of the project with the external
environment (van der Velde, J., et al., 2018). Several techniques or methods uses by the
project manager in identifying the information about the project are given below:
SITUATION ANALYSIS
The current research topic of this project is tested on different parameters such as trends,
consumer segment, and actual or potential market demand to know about its importance or
weaknesses (Balaji & Soori, 2019, pp. 107-121).
Trends- Currently people all across the world are showing positive response in adapting the
sustainable practices to live a peaceful life which shows a positive sign for providing
sustainable homes to people.
Market Demand- The market demand for sustainable practices is increasing day by day with
the emergence of the concept of sustainable development.
Consumer segment- The target market of sustainable is wide as all the age groups can take
benefit with the sustainable homes provided to all the users (Wong, Yu & Too, 2019, pp.
123-128).
ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS
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Industry factors- The industrial factors will include customers, suppliers, labour unions,
creditors, competitors, government and community or society members who are the
important aspects of the entire environment. For successfully launching the current project, it
is essential to meet the needs and the desires of all these users as without the consent of these
users, the success of a project is not imaginable (Xu, Li, Tan, Peters & Yang, 2018, 450-458).
Organizational factors- The macro environmental factors will involve which will affect or
create a negative effect on the performance of the current project. These are demographic,
social, economic, technological and legal factors (Cadena, Rocca, Gutierrez, Barona &
Carvalho, 2018).
PESTLE ANALYSIS
Political- Before starting the sustainable home renovation’s work as is important to consider
the construction material or methods as per the political condition of the country in which the
homes to be built.
Economical- The economic conditions such as inflation rate of the country is consider in
determining the price of the sustainable home renovation services offer to the end users.
Social- Tastes and the preferences of the end user is important before completing the
sustainable home renovations as the needs and desires of the users is important in the service
industry (Foroutan, Hassan, Desrosiers & Rupnow, 2018, 400-409).
Technological- Keeping close eye on the technological advancements to utilize the same in
offering sustainable home renovation services. This will includes solar panels on terrace and
waste converter machines.
Legal- The legal rules and the regulations of the country are essential by seeking all the
licenses and work permits before starting the renovation of houses.
Environmental- Using equipment’s in renovating the house should be eco-friendly and
which do not affect the environment to get no objection certificate from the environment
regulations authority (Chen, X., et al., 2018, 51).
Preparation
Projects needs
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This project consists of many needs which include meeting different desires of the
customers, higher durability of all the energy efficient equipment’s, high quality of homes to
be provided to the users (Chen, Su, Zeng, Sun & Shi, 2018, 109-124). Eco-friendly and
affordable housing is provided using green technology in building homes along with the use
of green materials, requirement of project budget allocation and scheduling techniques, hiring
right candidate to fill the vacant posts in the premises and lastly ensuring the high quality of
all the materials used in renovating the homes using the sustainable practices (Mlecnik,
Straub & Haavik, 2019, 123-138).
Funding Feasibility
This will involves the funding requirement of this project that how an entity will meet
its funding requirement to offer thee services to its end users. An advance payment from the
customer is taken in this project to provide the home renovation services instead of using any
other financial sources to fund the project. The client will release he payment in different
proportion after getting the progress report about the renovation of its houses and after
ensuring that its needs and desires will get accomplishes (de Wilde, 2019, 138-147)
Technical Feasibility
The technical feasibility will involves the work permission for using the green
building technologies and the green materials in renovating the homes using the sustainable
practices. Checking the suitability of the site and taking permission for using green
technologies after taking NOC from the environmental authorities.
Impact of project
Several things which will affect the performance of this project will consists of green
building materials and concepts used in the sustainable renovations in an affordable way and
meeting all the environmental regulations in one go (Yang, Hu, Wu & Zhao, 2018, 729-743).
The unique green building concepts will utilize in another building structures to get rid from
the environmental problems (Simpson & Owen, 2018, pp. 134-139).
Appraisal
Project Timeline
Task Name Duration Start Finish
Sustainable Home Renovations 377 days Mon 09-09-19 Tue 16-02-21
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Project Initiation 105 days Mon 09-09-19 Fri 31-01-20
Meeting clients 5 days Mon 09-09-19 Fri 13-09-19
Requirements Identification 32 days Mon 16-09-19 Tue 29-10-19
Requirement gathering 42 days Wed 30-10-19 Thu 26-12-19
Assign Project Team 26 days Fri 27-12-19 Fri 31-01-20
Project Design 70 days Mon 03-02-20 Fri 08-05-20
Smart Home Design 22 days Mon 03-02-20 Tue 03-03-20
Energy Modelling 33 days Wed 04-03-20 Fri 17-04-20
Budget 8 days Mon 20-04-20 Wed 29-04-20
Schedule 7 days Thu 30-04-20 Fri 08-05-20
Project Implementation 198 days Mon 11-05-20 Wed 10-02-21
Super-Seal the Building Envelope 31 days Mon 11-05-20 Mon 22-06-20
Super-Insulate the Building
Envelope
44 days Tue 23-06-20 Fri 21-08-20
Implementation of Highly
Insulated Windows and Doors
45 days Mon 24-08-20 Fri 23-10-20
Implementing Solar Tempering 42 days Mon 26-10-20 Tue 22-12-20
Install Energy Efficient Lighting 36 days Wed 23-12-20 Wed 10-02-21
Project Closure 4 days Thu 11-02-21 Tue 16-02-21
Hand over house to the client 2 days Thu 11-02-21 Fri 12-02-21
Sign off Project Team 2 days Mon 15-02-21 Tue 16-02-21
Figure 1 Project timeline
Figure 2 Gantt chart
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Budget
Task Name Cost
Sustainable Home Renovations 480,760.00 . .د إ
Project Initiation 190,048.00 . .د إ
Meeting clients 1,680.00 . .د إ
Requirements Identification 23,552.00 . .د إ
Requirement gathering 130,080.00 . .د إ
Assign Project Team 34,736.00 . .د إ
Project Design 24,840.00 . .د إ
Smart Home Design 7,920.00 . .د إ
Energy Modelling 11,880.00 . .د إ
Budget 2,688.00 . .د إ
Schedule 2,352.00 . .د إ
Project Implementation 264,528.00 . .د إ
Super-Seal the Building Envelope 41,416.00 . .د إ
Super-Insulate the Building Envelope 58,784.00 . .د إ
Implementation of Highly Insulated Windows and Doors 60,120.00 . .د إ
Implementing Solar Tempering 56,112.00 . .د إ
Install Energy Efficient Lighting 48,096.00 . .د إ
Project Closure 1,344.00 . .د إ
Hand over house to the client 672.00 . .د إ
Sign off Project Team 672.00 . .د إ
Table 1 Budget
Expected outcome
Every project aims to get success when the goals prepare for the project will get
accomplishes and in return get the results of the expected outcomes from a project. The
expected outcomes of this project involve an affordable house to be built, cost efficiently
sustainable homes; different kinds of sustainable equipment utilize one home, green
technologies and green building material introduced for this project (Awasthi, Omrani &
Gerber, 2018, 247-259). All these outcomes will reflect the efforts of the project manager
whose main aim is to provide homes in an affordable price as the majority of the community
cannot afford expensive prices when the thing comes to the utilization of sustainable
equipment’s and eco-friendly practices.
Implementation
Action Plan
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The action plan of the current project will aim to achieve the short term, medium term
and long term plan to get achieve along with the current project. The success of this project
will further help in meeting the sub-aspects of the long term plan. Short term aim is to aware
people about the concept of sustainable development, the medium-term aim is to provide
sustainable homes along with the clear knowledge of green technologies and the building
materials utilized in the renovation. The long term aim of this project is to increase the word
about the adoption of sustainable practices in all the houses by disregarding environmental
affecting equipment’s or materials.
Deliverables
 Development of sustainable homes
 Energy saving equipment
 Durable product
 Eco-friendly materials
 Water harvesting system for saving rain water
 Solar panel for storing electricity
 Affordable homes for the users
Above mention project deliverables will help in increasing the worth of sustainable
development concept as after utilizing the affordable sustainable homes, all people will show
more concern in knowing about this more.
Change and improvements
This section will include the perspective changes that will require after the
implementation to correct the objectives and the deliverables’ quality after seeking feedback
from the homeowners. This includes the replacement of the energy efficient equipment’s,
increasing the scope of the project by adding more deliverables of this project. The changes
and the improvements included in the initial section of the project execution will get more
helpful after the project gets executed.
Operation
The operation stage of the project cycle will emphasize on the analysis part of the project
to know whether the aim is under the operation are working or not. Aim of this stage is to
ensure the smooth working of this project by generating separate progress reports of all the
objectives in this project to know its future outcome (Singh, Olugu, Musa & Mahat, 2018).
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The main objective of this project is cost efficacy and the reduction of the over-consumption
of resources. Reduce, recycle and reuse methodology is to be assessed properly in knowing
its impact on the overall performance of the project. The project theme is sustainable home
renovations using eco-friendly and sustainable practices by reducing the consumption of
machines which is creating pollution. The old building material is recycled and reuses by
using sustainable ways to increase its quality for using the same for accomplishing the aims
of this project.
Evaluation
Pre project evaluation- Before the implementation of the project, the project is reviewed by
analysing the expected outcome arises from this project as various methodologies are used in
knowing its future impact. The external factors lies in the external environment will use in
analysing the characteristics of this project including sustainable home renovations,
sustainable practices, energy efficient equipment, cost efficiency and time-bound tasks in the
project. The scope and need of the project is assessed using several parameters such as gals,
measures, design, collection, process and final conclusion. All these methodologies are used
to analyse the content in a project.
Project in progress evaluation- After the pre-evaluation of the project before the
implementation of the same the next step is to evaluate the project while the project is under
the progress as the tasks are under continuation (Tereso, Ribeiro, Fernandes, Loureiro &
Ferreira, 2019). Checking the progress of the tasks while under the work will provide details
regarding the feasibility of those tasks in knowing whether the task will produce positive or
negative results based on the analysis performed on the same. The evaluation technique will
help in checking the work in progress tasks to know the impact of the same on the overall
performance of the project as the success or failure of an entire project can be tracked using
this step of the evaluation.
Post project evaluation- In the last step of the evaluation, the methodology will use to
compare the actual objectives of the project with its expected outcome and determine the
difference between both of them. The judgment is drawn on the basis of both the differences
to depict the strengths or weaknesses of the project along with a technique to correct the same
in a stipulated time period. The social and the economic benefit of the objectives of the
project is also determine to compare the total results of the project to suggest a project
manager about the performance of the project from different perspectives.
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2. PROJECT CHARTER
Project Name- Sustainable Home renovation Date: 17th May 2019
Project Objectives
Key goals and the objectives of this project will helpful for project manager in performing the
activities of the project to achieve the same in a given span of time. The main goals of this
project which is about the building of sustainable homes as economic friendly practices used
in building this sustainable homes to save the usage of energy and enhance its quality and it is
durability.
 To complete the project within the stipulated time period and the mentioned timeline
 To make sustainable development
 To establish homes
 To decrease the resource consumption in this project
The above mention goals of this project shows the critical pillars of this project that time,
quality and resource requirements of developing the entire project to meet the sustainable
requirement for this project.
Deliverables
This section will include the main outcomes of the project when the end uses or all the
stakeholders will receive the results of conducting this project. These will also emphasizes on
two of the things such as inclusions and the exclusions of this project stating the overall scope
of the project. The inclusions will cover all the things which will include in this project and
the exclusions will consist of the things which are outside the scope of this project.
Inclusions
Development of sustainable homes
Energy saving equipment
Durable product
Eco-friendly materials
Water harvesting system for saving rain water
Solar panel for storing electricity
Affordable homes for the users
Exclusions
Interior of the sustainable homes are not covered under this project
Scope
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The scope of this project is to decrease the costs involved in developing sustainable homes
and renovating the existing homes using sustainable practices. Main motto of this project is to
offer affordable homes to the people as real estate property rate is very high that majority of
people cannot afford to take the possession of their dream home. Another elements stating the
scope of this project is to decrease the excessive consumption resources as to create a
sustainable home it is essential to use minimum resources that adds value to the homes and
avoid it’s over utilization. Introducing waste disposal management approach added in these
homes as waste generates homes is very big problem of nowadays which is affecting the
entire environment.
Milestones
Identifying affordable sustainable equipment
Creating layout of the house
Identifying waste management approaches
Increasing cost of the project
Coordination among the project team members
Delaying of the project activities
Time and costs are two main milestones faced by project manager in conducting this project
as main goal of this are to complete the project on and to develop homes in an affordable
costs.
Assumptions
Constant inflation rate
No fluctuations in the prices of the materials used in developing sustainable homes
There is no changes witnessed in the price of real estate market
All these assumptions uses by project manager for developing this project effectively to
achieve the desired objectives and goals of this project.
Constraints and dependencies
Cost and time constraint is there for the preparation of the sustainable homes as affordable
house is to be developed by project manager for the end users of this project. A change takes
places in the costs and a time is track by an individual to stabilize the level of costs and time
to accomplish the same in a stipulated deadline.
Project Authorization
Approved by Project manager Date: 17th May 2019
Approved by Client Date: 17th May 2019
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