A integração das tarefas de sustentabilidade com o proceso de desenho do projeto. - Estudo de casos -

Abstract

The development of a green-building project following a specific reference standard such as LEED, brings new conditions and restrains for all subjects involved in the process. Such changes affect technicians, owners, bureaucracy and also the management tasks either

during design or construction phases. Within this scope, the management of sustainability- related activities plays a key role for the optimization of the design-project development.

This research analyzes the design process of two different case-study projects undergoing the same green-building certification from the project management perspective. In both project sustainability-related activities were performed throughout the design process however, in one of them such activities were integrated to the building-design development and in the other they were not. The projects selected for the scope of the research is a new nursing home complex located in Northern Italy and an office building project in Barcelona (Spain) currently pursuing the LEED certification. A new methodology was

created in order to analyze the project and evaluate the effects of detected project- management issues under three different points of view: costs, time and building

sustainability. Such “issues” were identified by researchers on the basis of the LEAN- definition of “waste”. The scope of the research is to demonstrate a positive relationship

between integration of the process green-building tasks and successful development of green-building projects within the European construction environment. The results showed that integration of green-building tasks through the development of the design process can considerably affect the cost, schedule and sustainability of the project design.