Green building project management: obstacles and solutions for sustainable development

• Main Author: Tahereh Khodadadzadeh
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Growing Science 2016-12-01
• Series: Journal of Project Management
• Subjects: Green building; Project management; Building sector
• Online Access: http://www.growingscience.com/jpm/Vol1/jpm_2016_3.pdf

Building sector is considered as the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions around the world. Being green, or sustainable, is one of primary issues coming from internal/ external driv-ers for construction and engineering firms. The green building practice extends and supplement the traditional building design perspectives including economy, utility, durability, and comfort. This paper presents a review on recent advances dedicated on different state-of-art articles in the area of green building. The paper raises serious concern to take the necessary actions for green building development.