- Paperback: 88 pages
- Publisher: dashdot Enterprises Ltd; 1.1 edition (25 Mar 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0955413281
- ISBN-13: 978-0955413285
- Product Dimensions: 29.4 x 20.8 x 0.8 cm
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In a fast, demanding, regulated, value-for-money society with multiple diverse interests managers of projects and programmes have their work cut out to deliver the necessary outputs and achieve the best outcomes. This is compounded when a whole new range of criteria are thrown in to the mix covering Sustainability, the Environment and Green Issues which in themselves are not clear, complimentary or consistent. Formal education and academia can grasp the opportunities to stimulate and inform future generations including managers, designers, builders, engineers, surveyors. However, it is the current generation, who frequently have had little formal or cohesive training in sustainability, who will immediately face the challenges, fulfil the opportunities and address the dilemmas. This book is aimed at these practitioners to aid them in bringing their management expertise to bare on the sustainability themes and provide leadership to the other respected team members and stakeholders who have their own interests, obligations, responsibilities and contributions on such matters. The core content is a series of indicative interventions and features to stimulate and encourage managers on how and when they might address sustainability opportunities during their project lifecycle or at least the stages in which they are involved. There are occasional examples of trying to manage environmental elements from real life with overviews. There are checklists, prompts reference materials and stimulating illustrations.
About the Author
The principal author of this publication is Tom Taylor. Tom is a well-rounded, award-winning manager with over thirty years experience of business and capital projects and programmes mainly in the property and construction sectors and mainly in UK. Tom is a joint founder of Buro Four, where he was a Chairman, Director and project manager. He remains a retained advisor. Buro Four is an eminent international project management outfit with strong sustainability credentials in what they manage and how they manage their projects, their teams and themselves. In a world with growing interests in Sustainability, the Environment and Green issues Tom has been studying and researching how managers on projects can define, lead and manage the sustainability aspects of their projects and programmes in conjunction with their client / customers, consultants, contractors, suppliers and other interested stakeholder parties and participants. Tom is a principal of dashdot - a business and project management consultancy. He is a popular speaker, lecturer, occasional broadcaster and regular author with a growing range of original books on project management and business themes. Tom is also an active vice President and Honorary Fellow of the Association for Project Management (APM). He is a previous Chairman, recipient of the inaugural President's Medal and receiver of the Sir Monty Finniston Award 2009 for lifetime achievement in project management . He was designated Innovative Project Manager of the Year in 2007 including for his activities in sustainability. He was the joint sponsor of the APM Body of Knowledge 5th Edition, project manager of the initial Branch Standards and joint author of the sustainability section of the APM website. These various streams have been brought together in this publication with the support and encouragement of the Centre for Education in the Built Environment (CEBE) at University of Salford U.K. where Tom is a Visiting Professor.
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