Green building project

Presented by: Ibrahim Zaid, Shaimaa Sakr, Iman Mostafa,

Samah Shaaban, Nora Abosetta
List of contents:
Introduction
Project initiation Request
Business case
Project charter
Project Handbook
Project workplan
Quality management plan

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Introduction
 What is a "Green" Building?

Green Building is all about the complete building life

cycle; it is also regarded as sustainable building or
environmental building. The term “Green Building” is
often used in combination with “high-performance
building”, “sustainable design” and “preserving
precious resources”.
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 Going green with buildings - Building
green is not a choice but a commitment
for future generations
Green Building promotes the efficiency
of buildings with regards to the use of
water, energy and materials while
reducing the building’s impact on
individual’s health and the
environment through better design,
construction, operation, maintenance
and removal.  

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 Importance of Green Building

The related concepts of sustainable

development and sustainability are integral
to green building. Effective green building
can lead to:
1. Reduced operating costs by increasing
productivity and using less energy and water
2. Improved public and occupant health due
to improved indoor air quality
3. Reduced environmental impacts by, for
example, reducing storm water runoff  and
the heating effect.
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Importance of Green Building
Practitioners of green building often seek to achieve not
only ecological but aesthetic harmony between a structure
and it’s surrounding of natural and built environment. The
appearance and style of sustainable homes and buildings can
be nearly indistinguishable from their less sustainable
counterparts.
An increasing number of authorities, organizations and
institutions are working on raising consciousness about
“Green Building”. It is increasingly governed and driven by
standards, such as the Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design (LEED) rating system in U.S. as well as
The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI).
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Benefits of Green Building
•Reduction of natural resource consumption
•Reduction of operating costs
•Health, comfort and safety for all residents
•Energy optimization and reduction of energy consumption
•Increased productivity of the occupants
•Better indoor air quality (IAQ has a tremendous impact on
human health)
•Green Building encourages companies to benefit from the
Green corporate image and to leave a very positive
impression on customers, employees, business partners and
shareholders.
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 Benefits of Green Building

Choosing a green building for a home is not just an

option but a lifelong commitment to uphold the
virtues of natural, sustainable living...a conscious
decision to arrest resource depletion and protect
nature for our future generations.

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 Green building concept

 While a good design is essential to green building,

the actual operation, maintenance, and ultimate
disposal or deconstruction of the building also have
very significant effects on buildings' overall
environmental impact.
 “Green Building” is not only related to the selected
construction material but also to the long-term
impact on environment and on people’s health.
 The characteristics of the material itself constitute
points which have to be reconsidered by building
professionals when planning sustainable design
projects (GreenSpace criteria, Building Green, Inc):

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 Economical building
 The used materials should be natural and
environmental-friendly.
 The impact on the environment with regards
to manufacturing, distribution, construction,
renovation and demolition is relatively small.
 Minimum quantity of chemicals necessary to
prepare the material for construction is used.
 The material can be recycled.

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Project Initiation Request
 Document control Information
Settings Value

Document Title: Project Initiation Request

Project Title: <Green Building>

Document Author: <Shaimaa Sakr – Ibrahim Ali – Iman Mostafa – Samah Shaaban – Nora Khaled
>
Project Owner: Mohsen

Project Manager: Medhat

Doc. Version: <01>

Sensitivity: <Public, Basic, High>

Date: 11/01/2023
Project Title: Green Building

Initiator: Quality Assurance Manager Organisation / Unit: Quality Assurance

Unit
Project Owner (PO): Development unit manager Date of Request: 11 Jan. 2023

Solution Provider (SP): Quality assurance unit Approving Authority: CEO

Traffic unit
Human resource unit

Estimated Effort 3 coordinators/ 3 months Target Delivery 30 April 2023

(PDs): Date:
Type of Delivery: ☒ In-house Outsourced Mix Not-known

 
Context / Situation (Business Need/ Problem / Opportunity)
In order to fulfil with sustainable developments goals, a great concern to
environmental and climatic changes. Goal No. 13 lighten the spot on the opportunity
for all to take action and help reverse such harm.
The organization should take steps to eliminate pollution resources through defined
initiatives
 
 
Legal Basis
Egyptian law for environment No. 4 for 2009.
UN 17 Sustainable development goals.
 
 
Outcomes (high level)
Decrease emission of CO2 inside organization facilities and affiliates.
Prohibit all type of smoking inside organization facilities and affiliates.
Decrease paper consumption inside organization facilities and affiliates
 
Impact (high level)
Creating a green organization will directly influence organization costs reduction
through decreasing energy consumptions, creating a clean environment and be an
effective part of 17 goals for sustainable development.
 
 
Success Criteria
1. Management support is mandatory
2. Worker’s involvement and awareness of this concept
3. Costs
 
 
Assumptions (high level)
the organization will:
Decrease the cost of travelling.
Decrease the energy consumption inside facilities.
Create an eco-friendly work place by
Eliminate paper waste.
Forbid smoking.
Constraints (high level)
To save energy, online concept and digitalization should be applied, this puts some constraints like:
- Time schedule for workers should be well stablished
- Schedule transportations days and hours
- Creating shifts and rotations days between employees to have equal workload either online or at site work.
- Costs to buy a well-developed network system and have well trained and expert IT team always ready to
solve problems and bugs (VPN or remote work system)
To create a clean environment and healthy workplace, non-smoking rules should be implemented, and this
could be strongly rejected by employees.
 
Risks (high level)
Instability of prices due to devaluation.
People resistance and anxiety.
Network breakdown during working from home.
Business Case
Executive Summary
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a United Nations initiative, formally adopted by the United
Nations General Assembly on 25 September 2015 in a resolution entitled Transforming our world: the 2030
Agenda for Sustainable Development. The SDGs build on and succeed the Millennium Development Goals.
They include 17 goals and 169 targets to be achieved over the next 15 years, with the aim to “end poverty, protect
the planet, and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda”.
Sustainable Development Goal 13 is about climate action and the official mission statement of this goal is to "Take
urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts"
The UN explains: Affordable, scalable solutions are now available to enable countries to leapfrog to cleaner, more
resilient economies. The pace of change is quickening as more people are turning to renewable energy and a range
of other measures that will reduce emissions and increase adaptation efforts.
Therefore, and in order to meet sustainable developments goals, a great concern to environmental and climatic
changes. Goal No. 13 lighten the spot on the opportunity for all to take action and help reverse such harm.
The organization should take steps to eliminate pollution resources through defined initiatives.
Proposed initiatives are defined as follow:
Build a green eco-friendly building by applying the following:
Decrease the on-site workforce and adopt working from home concept.
Prohibit all type of smoking inside organization facilities and affiliates.
Decrease paper consumption inside organization facilities and affiliates
 Business case details
Project Name Green Building

Project Sponsor XYZ

Project Manager Mahdi

Apply smart solutions to support eliminate pollution
Service description
resources.
ABC for travels, STU for digital solutions, KLM for
Partner organisation(s)
rehabilitation.

Egyptian law for environment No. 4 for 2009.

Project Reference
UN 17 Sustainable development goals
Strategic Case

1. The proposal
Build a green eco-friendly building by applying the following:
 Decrease the on-site workforce and adopt working from home concept.
 Prohibit all type of smoking inside organization facilities and affiliates.
 Decrease paper consumption inside organization facilities and affiliates

2. The case for change

2.1 Alignment with commissioner objectives/priorities
This project is essential to align with the sustainable development goals - goal 13 to take urgent action to
combat climate change and its impacts.
2.2 Fit with national policy
Egyptian law for environment No. 4 for 2009.
Strategic Case

3. Customer user needs – current and future

 Save energy and Decrease emission of CO2 inside organization facilities and affiliates.
 Nowadays, the physical attendance on workplace is not necessary. New technologies facilitate many obstacles
and make businesses sustain easily remotely.
 Remote working or working from home system can decrease many sources of energy; including transportation
either by organization buses or by personal cars, which affect directly the emission of carbon and gases.
 Also, the transformation of gas cars / buses into natural gas technique will be an effective method to decrease
carbon in environment.
 Prohibit all type of smoking inside organization facilities and affiliates.
 Smoking inside building and affiliates direct affect environment and health for employees, prohibit of smoking
will enhance work environment.
 Decrease paper consumption inside organization facilities and affiliates
 Consumption of paper for unnecessary reports or documents costs organization money and decrease the
natural resources. Categorization of paper reports by classify the necessary hardcopies and develop a secure e-
archiving system for documents will be reflected directly to organization budget and accordingly to trees!
Strategic Case

4. Benefits and risks

Benefits:

 Reduction of natural resource consumption

 Reduction of operating costs
 Health, comfort and safety for all residents
 Energy optimization and reduction of energy consumption
 Increased productivity of the occupants
 Better indoor air quality (IAQ has a tremendous impact on human health)
 Green Building encourages companies to benefit from the Green corporate image and to leave a
very positive impression on customers, employees, business partners and shareholders.
Risks:

 Instability of prices due to devaluation.

 People resistance and anxiety.
 Network breakdown during working from home.
Strategic Case

5. Constraints and dependencies

To save energy, online concept and digitalization should be applied, this puts some
constraints like:
 Time schedule for workers should be well stablished
 Schedule transportations days and hours
 Creating shifts and rotations days between employees to have equal workload either
online or at site work.
 Costs to buy a well-developed network system and have well trained and expert IT
team always ready to solve problems and bugs (VPN or remote work system)
To create a clean environment and healthy workplace, non-smoking rules should be
implemented, and this could be strongly rejected by employees.
Project charter
Project charter
Project goals: Implementing the concept of green
building as a part of sustainable construction. Sustainable
construction addresses the ecological, social and
economic issues of a building in the context of its
community.
Deliverables: Green building project have to implement
sustainable construction practices, which are usually
listed in green building rating systems such as LEED to
minimize waste generation in this building.

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Project charter
SCOPE DEFINITION: Green Building promotes the
efficiency of buildings with regards to the use of water,
energy and materials while reducing the building’s impact
on individual’s health and the environment through better
design, construction, operation, maintenance and
removal.  
The project will include: Energy, waste, emissions
management approaches
 

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Project charter

PROJECT MILESTONES: Significant reduction in emissions,

wastes, electricity consumption by 30% than traditional
similar projects.

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Project charter

ASSUMPTIONS, CONSTRAINTS & DEPENDENCIES:

HIGHER COSTS FOR GREEN CONSTRUCTION PRACTICES AND
MATERIALS: As compared to conventional projects, green
projects tend to cost more to construct. According to an
estimate capital costs for green projects in the range of
25% higher.

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Project charter

ASSUMPTIONS, CONSTRAINTS & DEPENDENCIES:

TECHNICAL DIFFICULTY DURING THE IMPLEMENTATION
PROCESS: Green technologies require complicated
techniques and construction processes. If complexities are
not addressed well then it may affect the project
manager’s performance.
Similarly, design can be more complicated than that of a
conventional building due to the evaluation of alternative
materials and systems

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Project charter

RELATED DOCUMENTS
LEED requirements, similar implemented projects and
procurement proposals.

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Project handbook
Project workplan
Quality Management plan
Quality of the project
Quality objectives:

The tasks focused on post-construction performance such

as the utilization of renewable sources, sustainable and
efficient energy technologies, and life cycle cost analysis
are the examples of additional considerations brought into
the preconstruction services of green building projects.

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Quality of the project
Quality Process:

The project quality management process comprises all

activities (related both to processes and deliverables) that
will increase the ability to meet the project expected
results identified in the Project Charter.

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Quality of the project

Quality assurance : by evaluating

- The design of the project controls, by confirming that
they are implemented, and by assessing their operational
effectiveness. These activities will consider the project
quality objectives along with the project risks.
- compliance with the organisation’s rules and regulations,
as well as with relevant governmental and industry rules,
regulations and legislation.
- Compliance with green building requirements.

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Quality of the project

Quality assurance :

Quality assurance activities are usually not performed by

the Project Manager (PM), but will be carried out:
Externally: byoutsourcing audits to external
entities/auditors when necessary.

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Quality of the project

Quality Control:
The purpose of this step is to monitor and consolidate results
from the quality assurance activities in order to assess
compliance and performance, recommend necessary changes,
and plan new or refine existing quality assurance activities.
Quality monitoring & controlling is performed throughout the
project by the Project Manager (PM).

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Quality of the project
Other Quality Control Activities:

-Energy Modeling: Simplified, hourly and compliance energy

modeling are performed in the conceptual, preliminary, and
detailed design stages
-Metering: Design of energy and water metering and leak
detection systems was performed mostly in the design stage.

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Quality of the project
Other Quality Control Activities:

-Materials and Resources: Construction waste control was

found to depend on the building typology type selected. Life
cycle assessments of materials to compare the environmental
impact of choices were not performed in the design stage by
any of the participants
-Materials requiring overseas testing need to be discussed
with the client from the beginning and should be
reconsidered with the client.

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Quality of the project

TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES

The following techniques will be used for project quality
management:
-Audits;
-Walkthroughs;
-Benchmarking;
-Questionnaires;
-Project Review Meetings;

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Quality of the project

QUALITY ACCOUNTABILITY
-The Project Manager (PM) is the overall accountable of the
quality assurance activities within the project. The Project
Manager (PM) is also responsible for scheduling and initiating
all formal project audits or reviews.
-The quality assurance activities will be performed by the
Project Core Team (PCT), by Externally: e.g. outsourcing
audits to external entities/auditors when necessary.

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Quality of the project

QUALITY RECORDS

The quality records (evidence that quality management

activities have been performed) are archived in the project
repository, under the "Monitor & Control" folder.
The different versions of the project artefacts (created at
each artefact update) will provide evidence of the
performance of these activities.

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