Integrating Sustainability Into Major Projects: Best Practices and Tools for Project Teams

A practitioner-focused guide featuring tools, models, and experience from the front lines of sustainability management on major projects With the growing need for sustainability management on large resource, infrastructure and power projects, this book provides project teams and sustainability practitioners with the practical advice, tools, and resources they need to create better projects. It offers extensive guidance for integrating sustainability into project design, planning and delivery. In each chapter, the authors provide invaluable sustainability management strategies and sample tools for project execution plans, engineering decision-making, stakeholder engagement tracking, logging commitments and follow-up actions, permit tracking, and construction management.  Integrating Sustainability into Major Projects: Best Practices and Tools for Project Teams begins by introducing readers to the topic, as well as the common terminology. It then offers readers an overview of major projects, covering types of projects and project structures, the key players, and how to understand and manage different perspectives of time and space. Next, it looks at standards and guidelines, followed by chapters on: Project Management; Managing Risk and Opportunity; Sustainability Management Tools; Approvals and Permits; Design; Procurement; Construction Management; Commissioning; and more. This book:  Provides analysis tools and resources that practitioners and project teams can use to successfully integrate and manage sustainability into major project design and delivery including industrial, resource, power, and infrastructure projects; Guides readers on how to work with local communities, engage with stakeholders and develop sustainability programs that support project financing; Includes case studies, lessons learned and expertise from a wide range of actual major projects and the authors' professional experiences with integrating sustainability; Leads practitioners through the major project types and their typical components, structure, and timelines, and demonstrates how sustainability can be effectively integrated into each type of major project. Integrating Sustainability into Major Projects provides the tools project teams need to successfully integrate sustainability into project design and management, making it an ideal tool for project teams and sustainability practitioners working on major resource, power, or infrastructure projects. It will also benefit project owners, organizational leaders, project finance professionals, government regulators and graduate students in engineering, project management, sustainability management, or environmental design and architecture.

Table of Contents:
About the Authors ix Acknowledgments xi Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Terminology 2 1.2 Creating Value by Integrating Sustainability 2 1.3 Creating a Sustainability Focus 4 1.4 Sustainability is a Team Sport 10 1.5 Who is This Book For? 12 1.6 How to Use This Book 13 Chapter 2 Overview of Major Projects 15 2.1 What is a Major Project? 16 2.2 Types of Major Projects 16 2.3 Types of Project Structures 19 2.4 Key Players 24 2.5 Managing Time and Space 25 2.6 Project Lifecycle 27 2.7 Summary 29 Chapter 3 Standards and Guidelines 31 3.1 Getting Started 32 3.2 International Standards and Guidelines 32 3.3 Industry Guidelines 40 3.4 Discipline Guidelines 43 3.5 Responsible Project Financing 45 3.6 Sustainable and Responsible Investing 46 3.7 Managing Standards and Guidelines 47 3.8 Summary 48 Chapter 4 Understanding What is Important 51 4.1 Mapping Sustainability Topics 52 4.2 Mapping External Factors 53 4.3 Value Chain Analysis 58 4.4 Focus on Materiality 65 4.5 Summary 68 Chapter 5 Project Management 71 5.1 Sustainability Steering Committee 72 5.2 Project Charter 74 5.3 Sustainability Policy 75 5.4 Project Goals 77 5.5 Structuring the Project Organization 78 5.6 Project Execution Plan 79 5.7 Project Schedule 81 5.8 Project Communications Plan 82 5.9 Change Management 85 5.10 Project Team Roles and Responsibilities 86 5.11 Summary 88 Chapter 6 Stakeholder Engagement 89 6.1 Reasons to Engage 90 6.2 Identifying Stakeholders 91 6.3 Understanding Project Stakeholders 95 6.4 Engaging 97 6.5 Documenting Engagement 101 6.6 Communicating 101 6.7 The Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP) 103 6.8 Community Agreements 105 6.9 Additional Tools 105 6.10 Summary 106 Chapter 7 Managing Risk and Opportunity 107 7.1 Risk Workshops 108 7.2 Project Risk Register 112 7.3 Risk Management Plans 116 7.4 Opportunity Management 120 7.5 Summary 123 Chapter 8 Sustainability Management Tools 125 8.1 Sustainability Integration Framework 125 8.2 Management Systems 127 8.3 Managing Commitments 129 8.4 Developing a Commitments Action Log 132 8.5 Managing Complaints 136 8.6 Developing a Complaint Mechanism 139 8.7 Monitoring Sustainability Performance 143 8.8 Summary 144 Chapter 9 Approvals and Permits 145 9.1 Approvals 145 9.2 Permits 148 9.3 Summary 149 Chapter 10 Design 151 10.1 Design Basis 152 10.2 Selecting a Location 153 10.3 Community Design Workshops 156 10.4 Innovation 159 10.5 Decision Making 160 10.6 Designing for Climate Change 168 10.7 Summary 172 Chapter 11 Procurement 175 11.1 Procurement Plan 176 11.2 Economic Development Plan 179 11.3 Equipment and Materials 182 11.4 Supplies and Services 185 11.5 Logistics 186 11.6 Contractors 189 11.7 Summary 193 Chapter 12 Construction Management 195 12.1 Transition to Construction 196 12.2 Stakeholder Communications During Construction 197 12.3 Public Safety 202 12.4 Environmental Management 205 12.5 Working with Contractors 210 12.6 Permit to Work System 212 12.7 Construction Sustainability Metrics 214 12.8 Creating a Sustainability Culture 216 12.9 Summary 219 Chapter 13 Commissioning 221 13.1 Commissioning Team 222 13.2 Management Systems 222 13.3 Stakeholder Engagement 223 13.4 Communications 225 13.5 Completion and Demobilization 225 13.6 Summary 226 Chapter 14 Closure 227 14.1 Closure Planning 227 14.2 Transition to Closure 229 14.3 Design for Closure 231 14.4 Progressive Reclamation 232 14.5 Summary 234 Chapter 15 Wrap-Up 235 15.1 It’s a New World for Delivering Major Projects 235 15.2 So, What Can Project Teams Do? 236 15.3 Managing Complexity 237 15.4 What Does It Cost? 237 15.5 Getting Started 238 15.6 Sharing Your Stories 238 15.7 Final Word 239 Appendix A PESTLe Table of External Factors 241 Appendix B Stakeholder Summary Template 245 Appendix C Stakeholder Engagement Plan Sample Table of Contents 247 Appendix D Stakeholder Communications Planning for Construction 249 Index 251

About the Author :
WAYNE MCPHEE, M.ENG, P.ENG, MBA is a seasoned sustainability specialist who has worked on major projects in the mining, energy, and infrastructure sectors, and has led international cross-discipline project sustainability programs within global engineering firms. He has worked for over 25 years as a consultant and within corporate teams on environmental and sustainability challenges. SABRINA M. DIAS, MES, P.ENG Works in the extractive sector in mitigating environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks to achieve long-term costs savings for global, multi-billion dollar projects. With over 20 years' experience, she is a thought-leading public speaker and lecturer at mining conventions, sustainability conferences and universities. Sabrina is Founder and CEO of SOOP Strategies Inc., a highly specialized consulting firm dedicated to transformational sustainability solutions for clients around the world.