Project Management: Integrating Sustainability in Westfield Projects

This report examines the integration of sustainability within Westfield Design and Construction projects, an Australian construction company. It highlights the growing recognition among stakeholders and clients of the impact of design and construction on sustainability. The report emphasizes the benefits of sustainable design in delivering buildings with lower running costs. It reviews literature, analyzes key concepts like sustainability and sustainable development, and discusses the importance of incorporating economic efficiency, social responsibility, and environmental performance. The report also elaborates on success criteria, critical success factors (such as teamwork, comprehensive facility teams, and information optimization), and project management approaches relevant to sustainability in project management. It concludes that integrating sustainable factors leads to successful management and delivery of environmentally conscious construction projects, underscoring the need for knowledge and understanding of sustainable factors for ensuring successful application in construction.

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Topic- Integrating sustainability in managing in Westfield Design and Construction projects
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1. Introduction
The paper mainly reflects on integrating sustainability in managing Westfield Design
and Construction projects. The organization Westfield Design and Construction is the
construction company, which is located in New South Wales, Australia. The stakeholders as well
as construction clients of Westfield Design and Construction recognize the impact of design on
development as well as construction agenda. It is stated by Fewings (2013) that effective
sustainable design helps in deliver building with very much low running cost, which is quite
attractive for both businesses as well as society of the organization.
In this assignment, integration of various sustainability principles is integrated with the
construction organization for reflecting its significance. The paper reviews various articles and
journals that help in providing key evidence between the linkage that exists between project
performance and sustainability by integrating the principles of sustainability. The paper also
elaborates success criteria, critical success factors as well as management approaches in context
to sustainability in project management.
2. Summary of literature, analyses and discussion
2.1 Definition of key concepts
Sustainability is referred as one of the term that mainly describes a specific desire of
carrying out various activities without creating any harmful impacts or without depleting the
resources then it is identified that it assists in meeting the various needs of the organization
without compromising various ability of the future generations for meeting various needs as well
as requirements. On the other hand, sustainability development is defined as a procedure that is

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mainly utilized for organizing principles that assists in meeting various human development
goals (Epstein and Buhovac 2014). It also helps in sustaining the ability of various natural
systems for providing proper natural resources as well as ecosystems services upon which the
entire economy as well as society of the organization is dependent. It is identified that
integration of sustainability in construction projects of Westfield Design and Construction is
quite beneficial as sustainable construction generally aims to meet various needs as well as
requirements without compromising the ability of the entire future generations (Marcelino
Gonzalez and Perez 2015). It mainly helps in incorporating economic efficiency social
responsibility as well as environmental performance and contributes efficiently when technical
innovation, transferability as well as architectural quality are incorporated (Silvius and Schipper
2014). In the practice of construction, the methods or techniques that are utilized does no bring
any harm to the environment however it is helps in providing proper benefit to the society for
enhancing the entire profit of the company “Westfield Design and Construction”.
2.2 Success criteria
According to Mok, Shen and Yang (2015), it is quite possible to put evidence in several
framework of sustainability that is mainly associated with the concept of project management. It
is quite important to structure proper conceptual based framework of sustainability that helps in
achieved proper success related to project management. It is opined by Yeheyis et al. (2013), that
the conceptual framework can be aligned with various themes of sustainability in project
management as well as project success related with the organization “Westfield Design and
Construction”. The conceptual framework with appropriate alignment of the constructs helps in
opening a new gap of research between sustainability as well as success in projects.

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There have been many endeavors to evaluate the effect or advantages of activities from a
supportability point of view. Various discussions on the execution of social and group pointers,
while the requirement for project affect appraisal in the conditions of natural harm and trusts that
a structure for manageability revealing should fuse markers that can be utilized for measuring
supportability levels for broad activities (Zhang et al. 2014). For integrating sustainability into
project management the organizations need to apply certain stages, to be specific that include
setting the maintainability desires, opportunities of decreasing costs, sustainability dangers
administration value boost, sustainability necessities that are to be to finished, engagement to
providers and sub-contractual workers and motivate the undertaking group.
2.3 Critical success factors
According to Rabbani et al. (2014), the various stakeholders of sustainable project have
various types of perceptions about the factors of success when a project is mainly compared with
the opinions of project designers as well as project team members. This is due to number of
distinctive interest of the organization “Westfield Design and Construction” within the
sustainable based projects. It is identified that project related critical success factors are very
much different due to variable nature as well as distinctive objectives of various types of
construction projects (Hwang and Ng 2013). In context to the various construction projects of
Westfield Design and Construction, it is identified that the critical success factors include
teamwork boosting policy, comprehensive facility team, and proper experience in handing
different aspects of facilities and information optimization that is related with the design as well
as planning stage (Taylan et al. 2014). It is identified that critical success factor for various
construction project objectives generally include schedule, budget as well as quality for proper
allocation of different types of limited resources. It is identified that various studies on critical

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success factors of construction project are generally dependent on nature as well as structure of
the local area. Despite of this amount of attention that is provided to the approach of CSF, it is
analyzed that the sustainable development of construction project are quite beneficial.
Various studies on the topic of critical success factors are found to be too generic and
therefore it poses a question on the applicability of the construction projects. It is opined by Jato
et al. (2014) that construction industry by its nature is considered complex as well as high-risk
competitive business. It is also found that construction project mainly faces failures and thus
achieving success by construction project is quite difficult in the present scenario. According to
Epstein and Buhovac (2014), the various critical success factors, which are generally identified
by the project manager, include competence of project manager, timely decision, abilities of
troubleshooting, technical knowledge as well as practice of incentive system.
2.4 Project management approaches
Sustainable construction is mainly considered as a new trend for various constructions
projects of organization “Westfield Design and Construction”. Therefore, application of project
management within the new trend of construction generally requires number of relevant
stakeholders who considers various principles of sustainability for implementing project
management in the project (Silvius and Schipper 2014). This helps in promoting significant cost,
marketing strategy and assists in saving time. It is identified that for construction related projects,
feasibility is one of the most important as well as significant stage before project construction as
well as design (Mok, Shen and Yang 2015). It is analyzed that there are number of significant
factors that must be considered before integrating the principles of sustainability within the
construction projects. It is found that the application of six principles of sustainability within the

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project can be helpful in developing the orientation of the business properly. The outcomes are
considered unexpected as the aspects of sustainability are properly integrated from the origin of
the procedure.
As per the research that is done on a gathering of projects, it is identified that each
process group the extent that is provided for objectives as well as scope targets of the project
give chances to incorporating sustainability and furthermore the opportunities that project
accommodates coordination has been assessed (Rabbani et al. 2014). In this way, it uncovered
that despite the fact that the capability of incorporation of sustainable advancement and project
management exist in all procedure gatherings yet the range and the level of incorporations
differs. For occasion the starting procedure can possibly coordinate the ideas of supportability
into the substance (objective, expected outcome, deliverable) of the task, while the controlling
procedure give greater chance to integrating the ideas of sustainability during the time spent the
project (Hwang and Ng 2013).
3. Conclusion
It can be concluded from the entire assignment that integration of sustainability in
managing Westfield Design and Construction projects is quite beneficial. It is identified that
sustainable factors can be utilized for engaging into the construction project that generally results
in the successful management as well as delivery of environment construction project. The
various types of sustainable factors are generally applicable to various cases of construction
project due to different types of variable nature of the construction industry. This finding is quite
beneficial helps in confirming that both knowledge as well as understanding of various
sustainable factors is quite necessary for ensuring the successful application to construction

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project. Thought and comprehension from customer is basic for the reconciliation of
maintainable standards into development project. Right temporary workers and providers must
be chosen to guarantee a maintainable project conveyance. It is important that, not every single
supportable factor is appropriate to each kind of undertaking, because of the unpredictability idea
of the development industry. It was discovered that the joining of reasonable standards in
development project is noteworthy to deal with the current condition issue and achieve
noteworthy changes in execution.

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