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Project Manager User Guide

This guide covers how the Sustainable Facilities Tool (SFTool) can assist you with incorporating sustainability into all your projects. The SFTool can assist with the following responsibilities:
I. Managing Project Requirements II. Meeting Project Goals III. Accounting for Project Impacts
  • Limiting project costs upfront and over the product's life cycle
  • Aligning project goals within applicable federal requirements while meeting any certification requirements
  • Coordinating with stakeholders to manage project scope
  • Delivering a project that meets the desired environmental and performance goals
  • Understanding of the project’s overall effect on energy, water, natural materials, and other resource consumption
  • Understanding the project’s overall impact on human behavior and well-being

I. Managing Project Requirements

"As a Project Manager, I am responsible understanding all costs, requirements, and regulations before beginning my project."

Limiting project costs upfront and over the product's life cycle

  1. Compare over 100 materials on their relative costs to purchase/install, maintain, and disposeopens in new window
  2. Discover bundling strategies to realize cost savingsopens in new window
  3. Identify potential cost-effective facility upgradesopens in new window
  4. View financial case studies and success storiesopens in new window
  5. Use the Life Cycle Perspective to account for all costs over the product’s life cycleopens in new window

Aligning project goals within applicable federal requirements while meeting any certification requirements

  1. Find overviews of laws, Executive Orders, and Guiding Principles affecting Federal buildingsopens in new window
  2. Find regulatory content applicable to systems projectsopens in new window
  3. Reference relevant federal requirements for selected materials in a projectopens in new window
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II. Meeting Project Goals

"As a Project Manager, I am responsible for the delivery of my project on schedule, within scope, and under budget."

Coordinating with stakeholders to manage project scope

  1. Utilize an integrative process and identify stakeholders specific to each projectopens in new window
  2. Explore GSA lessons learned on collaborative strategies for project managersopens in new window
  3. View a list of key strategies to a successful projectopens in new window

Delivering a project that meets the desired environmental and performance goals

  1. View a list of sustainable best practices applicable to all project typesopens in new window
  2. Read case studies and lessons learned to discover successful project techniquesopens in new window
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III. Accounting for Project Impacts

"As a Project Manager, I should deliver a final product that accounts for future environmental, social, and financial impacts and works to optimize those impacts for the betterment of my organization and society as a whole."

Understanding of the project’s overall effect on energy, water, natural materials, and other resource consumption

  1. Learn about a system’s key impacts on consumptionopens in new window
  2. Evaluate materials from multiple office spaces on environmental criteriaopens in new window
  3. Explore potential synergies of system components and inter-system relationshipsopens in new window
  4. View guidelines for capturing a project’s overall effect using the Life Cycle Perspectiveopens in new window

Understanding the project’s overall impact on human behavior and well-being

  1. Benchmark and measure workplace quality improvementsopens in new window
  2. Learn about the impact of human behavior on building systemsopens in new window
  3. Explore a system’s impact on human performance, comfort, and safetyopens in new window
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Community

Break down the silos!

As a Project Manager, I don’t live or work in a bubble.

To deliver a successful project, I regularly work with a variety of professionals who would benefit from the value of the SFTool.

Integrative Design Process
General Contractors Occupants
Manufacturers Facility Managers
Procurement Professionals Architects
Engineers Owners
Decision Makers Maintenance Personnel
Specialized Consultants Interior Designers

Learn more about the Integrative Design Process