Business strategy for

sustainable development
(Green building project)

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

Samah Shaaban, Nora Abosetta
 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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Green building rating

“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.
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)
is the most widely used green building rating system in
the world. Available for virtually all building types,
LEED provides a framework for healthy, efficient, and
cost-saving green buildings.
LEED certification is a globally recognized symbol of
sustainability achievement and leadership.

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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 affiliatesReduction of natural resource
consumption
- Reduction of operating costs
- Health, comfort and safety for all residents
- Increased productivity of the occupants
- Energy optimization and reduction of energy consumption

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.
- 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.
Success Criteria
- Management support is mandatory
- Worker’s involvement and awareness of this concept
- Costs
Assumptions (high level)
the organization will:
Decrease the cost of travelling.
Decrease the energy consumption inside facilities.
Create an eco-friendly workplace by Eliminate paper waste.
Forbid smoking inside the building.

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 in 2015 aiming to transform our world: the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development.
- They are 17 goals 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"
- Therefore, the organization should take steps to eliminate pollution resources through defined initiatives
such as:
Create 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 environmental impacts of materials used in construction.
 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.
For “Green Building” construction, costs will be too high almost 25% higher than conventional
buildings also green technologies require complicated techniques and construction processes
PROJECT CHARTER
 Project charter
 Project goals:
 Implementing the concept of green building as a part of sustainable development.
 Create an eco-friendly environment with ecological, social and economic issues of a
building in the context of its community.
 Reduce energy consumptions
 Deliverables:
 Green building project should implement sustainable development concept.
 Save energy by 30 % and decrease pollution in the building facilities
 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
 
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:
1. Digitalization of the system and technical difficulty during the implementation process
2. 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.
3. People resistance to new rules
 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.

RELATED DOCUMENTS
LEED requirements, procurement proposals and sustainable development goals.

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PROJECT WORKPLAN
Project Summary
 In this project we’re seeking the leadership in Energy and Environmental Design; we are
concentrating our effort on improving performance across below mentioned key areas
of environmental and human health:
1. Energy efficiency
 Work Remotely This will lead to reduction in car motion.
 Future to replace Current Vehicles with new electric one This well lead to
decrease of CO2 Emissions.
 New Direction for generating electricity in place by solar energy This well lead
to decrease the dependence of Electricity generated by fossil fuel sources and
regulate building Temperature by insulating it from direct sun.
2. Indoor environmental quality
 Control building smoker people.
 Control building temperature
 Better indoor air quality
 Predecessors\
Work Breakdown dependecies
resource quantity cost
1.0   Project name: Green Building -      
1.1   Energy efficiency        
 Decrement of CO2 emissions by decreasing motion of
Database IT depart 1 month 1000
1.1.1     cars
Meeting with Transportation and HR        
1.1.1.1       Managers
Meeting with Operational Depts. and        
1.1.1.2       IT Managers
Analysing data collected from        
1.1.1.3       previous meetings
1.1.2 Replacing fossil fuel dependent vehicles with electric one Vendors Procurem
3 month 4000
ent dept
1.1.2.1       Meeting with Finance department.        
1.1.2.2       Exploring offers from electrical cars
vendors.        
1.1.3     Creation of solar power system to generate power Vendors R&D 5 month 1000
1.1.3.1       Meeting with Finance department.        
Exploring offers from solar power        
1.1.3.2       system vendors.
1.2   Indoor environmental quality        
Maintanan
Devices&worker monthly 1000
1.2.1     Controlling air quality by controlling A/C specifications ce dept
Check new A/C with plasma filters to        
1.2.1.1       control odour.
Check new A/C with sufficient thermal        
1.2.1.2       control.
Check insulating walls to decrease
thermal migration and decrease power        
1.2.1.3       consumption by A/C
Hr Dept/
New
Counsello 2 month 3000
policy/awarneess
1.2.2     Smokers free building. r
Change internal policy prohibit smoking        

1.2.2.1       inside the building

Group therapy sessions for smoke        

1.2.2.2       cessation
3.2. Resource needs
• laptops
• Data base
• Counsellor
• Equipment
• Suppliers
 Resource Plan

Other Resources

Resource ID From Date To

Date
Resource Characteristics Quantity

M.1 10/01/23 20/08/23 DATABASE Dedicated  

M.2 02/05/23 22/09/23 Laptop Office 2010 5

M.3 02/05/17 22/09/17 DETECTORS   10

           

Human Resources

Resource ID From Date To

Date
Resource Skill Skill Level Quantity

H.1 10/01/23 20/08/23 Counsellor persuation Advanced 2

H.2 10/01/23 20/09/23 IT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCED 1

H.3 10/05/23 20/06/23 HR PM2 Experienced 2

  
Cost of Resources

All Resources

Resource ID
Resource Cost per unit No. of units Total cost

H.1 Consultant 500€ per md 40 md € 20.000

H.2 LAPTOPS 400€ per md 20 md € 8.000

M.1 DETECTORS 800€ per connection 100 connections € 80.000

H.3 Trainer 500€ per md 10 md € 5.000

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.

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 assurance :
QA is achieved 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 organization's rules and regulations, as well as with
relevant governmental and industry rules, regulations and legislation.
 Compliance with green building requirements.
 Quality assurance activities are not performed by the Project Manager
(PM), but will be carried out:
 Externally: by outsourcing audits to external entities/auditors when
necessary in cooperation with on site Quality assurance manager.
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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).
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
- 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 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.

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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