Analysis of Green Project Delivery in Steel Industry (GRAD 695)

This report, prepared for GRAD 695, investigates the implementation of Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) in the green structural steel industry. It begins by highlighting the environmental challenges within the steel industry, such as energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The study aims to explore the efficiencies and opportunities of IPD, focusing on the involvement of secondary stakeholders like erectors and fabricators. The research poses two key questions: What efficiencies arise from using IPD components, and what advantages come from including secondary stakeholders in the design phases? The report reviews existing literature and proposes a research design to further understand how IPD can reduce environmental impacts and improve project delivery in the structural steel sector. The paper emphasizes the need for a more sustainable approach to project delivery, seeking to minimize waste, reduce errors, and streamline communication through the integration of key and secondary stakeholders.

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Green Structural Steel Industry
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Introduction
One industry that provides important construction material, steel, is the structural steel industry
(Askeland & Wright, 2015). However, there are negative by-products produced. In the process,
for example, wanting energy consumption, greenhouse gas emission and consumption of
nonrenewable resources during material production (Almorza, Longhurst, Brebbia, & Barnes,
2017). The commendable progress of the steel industry made over the years in reducing its
environmental impacts still has room for improvement. Lately, most of the industries in the
concerned field make use of traditional delivery methods during design execution. Hence,
professionals within the steel industry face drawbacks to their traditional systems (Spence &
Kultermann, 2016). For example, adversarial relations between the team members in projects,
pollution, construction and design delay as well as increased costs. On this note, the structural
steel industry looks for green, efficient and effective project delivery methods (Madsen &
Madsen, 2016).
Problem Statement and Research Questions
The recent concern in exploring available opportunities through project delivery methods in the
steel industry seeks to minimize bottlenecks coming up during the industry’s functioning (Gido,
Clements, & Baker, 2017). One promising delivery method lies in the study of the Integrated
Project Delivery (IPD) components (Fischer, Ashcraft, Khanzode, & Reed, 2017). Integrated
Project Delivery method merging in steel industries’ undertaking has the capability of creating
less waste, for example reducing the mass of material produced in excess, cutting back on
erection as well as fabrication errors, apart from having lesser Requests for Information
(Rebentisch, 2017). Additionally, through IPD, the steel industry could involve all secondary and
key stakeholders during projects’ design phases. Key stakeholders include the architects, owners

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and constructors while secondary stakeholders are erectors, steel fabricators, engineers, and
detailers (Şahin, 2018). However, there exists limited research conducted to value secondary
stakeholders, specifically the erectors and fabricators, in structural steel design phases (Şahin,
2018).
This research makes a study of the green delivery process in structural steel industries through
the use of IPD for eventual integration of IPD principles into the structural steel industry
(Fischer, Ashcraft, Khanzode, & Reed, 2017). The study’s results should provide important
information allowing the structural steel industries to have a better understanding of possible
opportunities and current processes that reduce environmental impacts relating to structural steel
delivery (Almorza, Longhurst, Brebbia, & Barnes, 2017).
Ultimately, the study seeks to answer the research question listed below:
1. What are the efficiencies and opportunities that are available as a result of making use of
Integrated Project Delivery method’s components?
2. What are the advantages of adding the secondary stakeholders during the structural steel
projects’ designing phases?

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References
Almorza, D., Longhurst, J. W., Brebbia, C. A., & Barnes, J. (2017). Air Pollution XXV. Atlanta:
WIT Press.
Askeland, D. R., & Wright, W. J. (2015). The Science and Engineering of Materials. Chicago:
Cengage Learning.
Fischer, M., Ashcraft, H. W., Khanzode, A., & Reed, D. (2017). Integrating Project Delivery.
Boston: John Wiley & Sons.
Gido, J., Clements, J., & Baker, R. (2017). Successful Project Management. Memphis: Cengage
Learning.
Madsen, D. A., & Madsen, D. P. (2016). Engineering Drawing and Design. Chicago: Cengage
Learning.
Rebentisch, E. (2017). Integrating Program Management and Systems Engineering: Methods,
Tools, and Organizational Systems for Improving Performance. Detroit: John Wiley &
Sons.
Şahin, S. (2018). 8th International Conference on Engineering, Project, and Product
Management (EPPM 2017): Proceedings. New York City: Springer.
Spence, W. P., & Kultermann, E. (2016). Construction Materials, Methods and Techniques. New
York City: Cengage Learning.