Environmental Management within Projects

Environmental Management within Projects

The role of environmental management within projects is playing a more and more essential part to the firms and public. Because of the benefit of implementing environmental management, different methods are being used to improve environmental management in projects especially in industry. However, the application of these methods leads to an increase in labor use, materials costs and other cost...

Release Management Within Open Source Projects

A simple classification system for release management practices is presented. When applied to a set of projects, in this case a set of open source projects, distinctive practices are highlighted and relative strengths can be assessed. Three projects are studied, the Linux kernel, Subversion, and the Apache HTTP server. Their release practices, as portrayed by the classification system, emerge a...

Risk Management Plan in Large Urban Projects

One of the risks distinguishes urban projects from other projects is to purchase of property obstacles. The matter is of more significance in large projects. Issues with regard to possessing property obstacles, lack of accurate layout drawings for underground facilities and following probable changes in designs make it vital to have specific studies on risk management of such projects. So thi...

Design communication within fast-track building projects

The factor time within building projects is on high pressure because the need for faster delivery of buildings is rising. Within fast-track, complex building projects the design process is an important key to fast-tracking. Based on case analyses of fast-track design processes (den Otter, Prins 2001) it became obvious that design processes function poorly within fast-track projects. Improvement...

Environmental Impacts of Wind - Energy Projects