Analyse the importance of project planning for green projects in UK

This report analyzes the significance of project planning within the green construction sector in the UK, focusing on the factors that impact the successful management of green projects. It examines the roles of different managing factors, challenges faced by project managers, and critical skills needed to address these challenges. The research employs a comparative analysis of ISG and Kier, two major players in the UK construction industry, to identify the importance of project planning in maintaining environmental sustainability. The methodology includes a literature review, research philosophies, approach, design, strategy, data collection methods (primarily secondary data), sampling, data analysis (thematic analysis), and ethical considerations. The report aims to identify the role of project planning, determine challenges, and ascertain critical skills needed for the success of green construction projects, providing recommendations for improved project management and sustainability within the industry. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of proper project management for maintaining environmental growth and ensuring the use of fewer pollutant sources.

To analyse the importance of
project planning for green projects
in the construction industry of UK

Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................1
1.1 Background.......................................................................................................................1
1.2 Rationale...........................................................................................................................2
1.3 Aim...................................................................................................................................4
1.4 Objectives.........................................................................................................................4
1.5 Method of analysis...........................................................................................................4
CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW ........................................................................................6
2.1 Introduction......................................................................................................................6
2.2 Literature Review.............................................................................................................6
Theme 1: To identify role of different managing factors that affect green projects in
construction industry..............................................................................................................6
Theme 2: To ascertain the challenges that project managers encounter in managing green
construction project managing factors....................................................................................7
Theme 3: To Determine the critical areas skills that can respond to those challenges..........8
Theme 4: To analyse the importance of project planning for green project for maintaining
sustainability environment......................................................................................................9
CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY ..........................................................................11
3.1 Introduction....................................................................................................................11
3.2 Research philosophies....................................................................................................11
3.3 Research approach..........................................................................................................11
3.4 Research Design.............................................................................................................12
3.5 Research strategy............................................................................................................12
3.6 Data collection methods.................................................................................................13
3.7 Sampling.........................................................................................................................13
3.8 Data analysis ..................................................................................................................14
3.9 Ethical collection............................................................................................................15
3.10 Research limitation.......................................................................................................15
CHAPTER 4: DATA ANALYSIS ...............................................................................................17
4.1 Introduction....................................................................................................................17

4.2 Thematic analysis...........................................................................................................17
CHAPTER 4: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION ....................................................22
4.1 Introduction....................................................................................................................22
4.2 Conclusion......................................................................................................................22
4.3 Recommendation............................................................................................................23
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................27

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
TITLE: To access the factors for managing the green projects in the construction industry
of UK: Based on the comparative analysis of ISG and Kier.
1.1 Background
Project Manager plays a crucial role in a project’s success. To manage any project
successfully, it is required to manage project effectively with efforts, green projects have become
the most essential part of the sustainability development. Despite several studies,
The purpose of present study is to determine importance of green projects in construction
company (Guo and et.al., 2014). Energy demand in the building sector is expected to grow faster
parallel with the economic and population growth. Construction management and technology
are key factors for construction projects.
In terms of global concern over climate and sustainability, people are more concerned
about green construction in order to protect environmental growth. It also helps to bring new
challenges and growth for company purposes.
For this present research, ISG and Kier will be taken into action. It is a leading global
technology, research and advisory firm. This is UK’s biggest construction group that is
established under the growth. In terms of making green projects, study has been helped to
provide importance of green projects factor for better sustainability growth that helps to maintain
better economic growth in the UK environment. On the other hand, managers are facing
challenges and issues to manage green constructions projects.
Sustainability in building is the most concerning matter of fact in order to reduce the
global warming and increasing percentage of pollution It gives better and challenging in order to
make the best approachable target goals (Harrison and Lock, 2017). Due to high chemical
technologies', population brings double-quick forward results and accelerated making growth.
Overall, it brings long lasting effects.
The aim of this study is to focus on proper project managing factors planning in terms of
green projects while preparing long effectiveness. Along with that, it makes the best effective
processes and target market goals. Overall, it takes long term process and challenging growth,
which involves some hurdles while maintaining the project managing factors. Study also focuses
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on the project planning for construction companies. To enhance the importance of maintains
proper environment growth and ensuring less using pollutant sources.
1.2 Rationale
On the basis of past research and study, it has been seen that construction industry has
faced many challenges related to environment from past few years. Effective environment
sustainability is highly needed in present scenario in order to fulfill the long term goals. (He and
et.al., 2015). Present study has been focusing on project management that impacts on
organizational goals and targeted market plans. There is a huge need of green project managing
factors in the project management in order to ensure green management plan. Overall, it brings
extended term challenges that help to prefer long lasting efforts and growth. Green project is the
environmental challenge. Besides, it brings new challenges and growth in order to make the best
approachable target goals.
The purpose of the study is to define importance of green planning in order to sustain
long lasting efforts and goals. In order to take new steps and fast forwards results and growth.
Company should make proper and implemented content and target goals in order to make the
best approachable target market challenging matter of fact for reducing pollutant chemical
resources for building (Hughes, Champion and Murdoch, 2015). Disregarding the environment
can lead to project failure. This study helps to enhance importance of green projects managing
factors in the construction industry. Construction projects or companies are generally depended
on climatic and geographical conditions. Study helps to define the importance of need for green
and safe environment. Impact of green culture on an environment is to maintain the healthy
environment in entire project procedure and the company should has adopted the main goals of
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the project managing factors is that to make green project without using any harmful factors.
This makes proper and effective learning methods that brings new services and growth.
Project succeed factors in the construction project is very necessary that helps to define
all employees or workers exact working in all over project period (Kaiser, El Arbi and
Ahlemann, 2015). Moreover, it takes the best approachable process that helps to bring new major
challenges. To understand the role of project planning in green projects, sustainable building
management should be investigated to find how the project manager can influence on linking
sustainability to the building process.
Research also determines challenges that are faced by the project manager to make a
proper solution (Mok, Shen and Yang, 2015). Study scope define the overall standing of green
task and value of project managing factors in order to ensure future sustainability growth. This
process also helps to take care of the environment surroundings and long lasting sustainability
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growth. It will be more likely to have long ter effects and long lasting process. This helps to take
extended term process and more challenging growth. This helps to take long lasting and the best
effective challenging process. Different sources and more reliable and take effective process
making task.
This study has been provided the best sources able and makes the long term process
(Yang, Zou and Wang, 2016). It also gives good impact on the matter of fact that helps to make
the better fast growing performance. Present study has been introduced long term process and
takes the best approachable fast forward results. Project manager should make changes according
to protect from the bad effective low.
1.3 Aim
To access factors for managing green projects in construction industry of UK: Based on the
comparative study of ISG and Kier
1.4 Objectives
 To identify role of different managing factors that affect green projects in construction
industry.
 To ascertain the challenges that project managers encounter in managing green
construction project managing factors
 To determine critical areas skills that can respond to those challenges.
 To analyze importance of project planning for green project for maintaining sustainability
environment.
1.5 Method of analysis
Research Approaches: Research approach is the important term that helps to define
proper outcomes and results. There are two types of research approach such as inductive and
Inductive approach. Inductive approach does not based on formulation of hypothesis. They
focused on research aim and objectives (Guo and et.al., 2014). Besides, deductive approach is
based on hypothesis. Present study has been selected positivism approach which is based on
specific and general.
Research Strategies: it is the most crucial element of research methodologies that helps
to adopt suitable techniques. Present study has been determined the importance of project
planning in green projects in construction sector. For that, there has been present two types of
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strategies quantitative and qualitative. With the help of qualitative strategy, researcher can easily
collect data through secondary data collection data. Examples, use of internet, books and
journals.
Research Design: it is another matter of growth and challenging growth. Research
design helps to define two types such as exploratory and conclusive (Harrison and Lock, 2017).
It makes proper and effective process making changes. Exploratory research is based on general
content rather on conclusive design that will be based on specific research tools. Present study is
based on conclusive research design.
Data collection: it is the crucial element of research methodology under which two types
of data collection techniques have been presented. They are primary and secondary. Present
research will select secondary data collection technique (Hughes, Champion and Murdoch,
2015). Through research collects data through books, internet, journals etc.
Ethical Consideration: it is the most concerning and required element for accomplishing
research goals and objectives. Under which, a researcher is required ethical consideration is the
more effective and productive element to control the uncontrollable factor goals which keeps the
process and more challenging and effective. Ethical consideration is the tool that helps to control
the risk factor from the projects in more effective manner.
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CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Introduction
Construction industry is the most important and crucial because it makes new buildings
and evaluation processes in order to meet the needs of organization goals and objectives. It
contributes to the national economy in order to develop infrastructure that will be useful for
products and services. Overall, it makes better fast forward relationship growth in order to
enhance long effectiveness growth.
Besides, present study is based on the construction industry, which is majorly affected the
natural economy in terms of chemical resources and machines. In present scenario, builders need
to be sure that their factors of production must be green and enlarging. This also helps to make
better growth services. Present literature review will be analyzing different managing factors of
green projects in construction industry. This makes better and fast forward results growth. That
helps to take care of organizational goals and the best performing level. On the other hand, this
will also contribute the challenging. This makes the long term process and task oriented process
in order to meet needs.
2.2 Literature Review
Theme 1: To identify role of different managing factors that affect green projects in construction
industry
One of the most critical challenges to building green is the lack of industry skill of
construction sector to actually design and implement green projects. That helps to taking care of
the organization challenges. This makes proper changes and growth in order to meet needs of
building challenges. This makes proper processes or goals. According to Epstein, (2018)
capacity barriers is the first factor that affect the green projects. This makes proper and
approachable changes and target. Overall, company facing issues of lack of industry skills of
the construction sector that actually affect green projects and implementing green practices. On
the other side, industry also facing issues of technical experts that actually develop and
implement the green practices. As per the suggested Kerzner and Kerzner, (2017) they also
identify lack of knowledge about green practices in between the company structure due to which
green projects does not accomplish properly. The green building practices can be hindered by
ignorance or lack of common understanding about sustainability. That makes proper and
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effective process goals. This will take long term process and major objective goals. In spite of
others, ISG and Kier both needs to acquires the productive team building growth in order to
enhance better quality growth channel in order to sustain the best sustainable growth and
challenging market opportunities. Besides, this helps to bring long lasting growth for better
environmental growth and challenges. This makes proper changing entertainment goals objective
task. Overall, it brings new, better and long process of market opportunity. Sometimes,
stakeholders are not much aware about the growth of sustainability measures or alternatives that
fall within their remit.
Besides, company needs to apply green opportunities and great appearance to adopt the
green technology and materials requires new forms of competencies and knowledge. This will
help to control long effective challenges faced by company. This makes process and goals and
challenging material goals. In order to select managing challenges, this also makes proper
challenging and material growth challenges growth. Overall, it takes the long lasting effects in
order to meet needs of sustainability development growth.
As per Lehmann and Joseph, eds., (2015) it has been seen that this makes proper changes
and advanced level of making good things. Another challenge or lack of industry skills in this
area is that skill requirement change as per the green building design. This makes the proper
alteration and make good presence on behavior of natural growth.
As per the view of International Labor Organization, due to labor shortage and lack of
industry skills will lead the low sustainability growth channel. That makes process and goals in
order to meet the needs of organization goals and objectives. Due to cultural and social resistance
is another challenging factor that affects growth of green projects as per suggested Mok, Shen
and Yang, 2015.
Theme 2: To ascertain the challenges that project managers encounter in managing green
construction project managing factors.
According to Volk, Stengel and Schultmann, 2014, there are many challenges that affect
the project managers that encounters in managing green construction project. To maintaining the
green projects alive company, project manager requires the best approachable task performing
level to get productive outputs. Project manager has been seen many challenges during handling
the project goals. As per the Walker, (2015) Poorly defined goals is the first challenge that facing
by the project manager. This moderate low performing goals and major challenging market. On
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the other hand, it also generates long lasting effectiveness and majorly given long lasting
performance making task. Besides, On the other hand, in order to get over from the issue, project
manager affect needs to improve overall objectives and growth to meet needs of productive
project outcomes.
Theme 3: To Determine the critical areas skills that can respond to those challenges.
According to Carter, (2018) there are several methods to make better sustainability
growth in green projects. First instrument to solve all green projects challenges is institution and
attractive decision making approach. This requires coherent integration of policies across
economic, social and environmental spheres. It is the major goal effective challenging material
performance in order to meet effective challenging goals performing channel. ISG and Kier can
also adopt major finish objective solution mental object to make better effective content.
Effective developing building will be more helpful to create new challenging goals to analyze the
team building content. Green projects are more sustainable and well developed goals which helps
to make the proper and effective challenging goals that helps to keep the better storage process to
meet the changes and better performing goals in more effective manner suggested bu Glesne,
(2015).
Policy instrument will be the next factor to resolve issues and goals. It helps to bring
economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. This also helps to
keep goals effective and productive. This policy instrument will help to focus on the company’s
principle goals. Wide stakeholder support is very much required to maintained the proper
sustainability growth. This also helps to make productive nature of work accordingly and this
makes proper implementation of goals and planning suggested by the Epstein, (2018).
Construction planning is the most challenging task for civil engineers to execute
planning in more systematic time period. It keeps the major planning and making performing
goals. Green construction industry is earning a good image and in good order task oriented
process to be implemented indecently as per the Govindan, Rajendran, Sarkis and Murugesan,
(2015) suggested.
As per the research, Singapore Construction Industry is facing issues regarding growing
concern for climatic issues and sustainable construction that have put a great impact globally.
However, construction company also facing issues regarding proper project management
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framework for such green projects. From the basis of further assessment, it also has been
declared that cost is another potential barrier for green projects in order to adopt its technologies.
On the basis of current scenario, nowadays construction company are majorly take the
steps forward towards the green projects towards the better performing goals. in proper and
systematic manner as per the Klimova and et.al., (2016) suggested. The main purpose behind
green project is to reduce harmful substances on environment and human life and sustainable
development can be promoted. As per different challenges that has been faced by the green
project companies such as integration issues, lack of infrastructure, Non-technological issues,
education of employees, resistance to change, initial capital cost etc. in order to manage all issues
and challenges that ISG and Kier need to adopt for effective project management planning to
make sure proper process of execution and productive outcomes.
Theme 4: To analyse the importance of project planning for green project for maintaining
sustainability environment
According to Lewis, (2015), environmental sustainability planning is becoming the most
significant growth during last few years. Now, people become more aware about the importance
or need of green projects. This also become the more challenging and environmental performing
goal. Besides, other factors, which help to keep green building continue to exist such as energy
prices, interested costs of building material and regulatory incentives.
The main purpose is to suggest specific modifications to conventional building practices
to maximize the delivery cost efficient green building projects suggested by Mackey and Gass,
(2015). Through achieving and adopting different goals and better performing task. It helps to
make water quality protection through reducing the nitrate leaching from the soil into the water
supply and reduces surface runoff, keeping phosphorus and other harmful aside.
Another advantage of green construction is that to operate goals in such productive
manner. It also helps to control better goal objectives. It also helps to bring major goals and
objectives for better task performing goals. Green project planning is also very helpful to discuss
about reduced soil erosion that helps to control the better task operating performing that helps to
keep environment safe and secure. According to Maes and et.al., (2015), reduced soil erosion is
another advantage of green projects, which helps to keep sediments out of lakes, streams, storm
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