Piloting Evaluation Metrics for Sustainable High-Performance Building Project Delivery
Publication: Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Volume 136, Issue 8
Abstract
Sustainable high-performance buildings are being more widely adopted around the world to reduce energy costs and improve the well being of occupants. To achieve the set goals for these building projects within realistic financial and time constraints, superior planning, design, and construction processes are needed. The available literature lacks the descriptive project delivery metrics identifying scientific methods for providing insight or feedback about the performance of project delivery processes for sustainable high-performance buildings. This paper describes an exploratory study examining more than 100 variables in green project delivery to scientifically identify important metrics. Limited by a rather small sample due to the relatively young market of green buildings, the outcome of this paper, nevertheless, provides important direction for the continued development of meaningful metrics to assist in the establishment of a decision making support tool for project teams to facilitate optimum project delivery processes for sustainable high-performance buildings.
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Acknowledgments
The writers would like to thank all the industry members that contributed to this research, specifically the vice president and employees of Davis Construction and the members of Partnership for Achieving Construction Excellence (PACE) at Penn State for their invaluable time and feedback to this research.
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Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Volume 136 • Issue 8 • August 2010
Pages: 877 - 885
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Received: Nov 30, 2008
Accepted: Jan 16, 2010
Published online: Jan 28, 2010
Published in print: Aug 2010
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