SOSTENIBILIDAD Y CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO: NUEVOS OBJETIVOS Y REQUISITOS EN LA GESTIÓN DE PROYECTOS DE INGENIERÍA

Abstract

The impacts on ecosystem services due to human activity are now a fact: the loss of biodiversity, the climate change, desertification, health and illness, the broad social and economic differences,… coupled with a increasingly committed society required to give an immediate response to the new challenges today in short and long term. The Millennium Development Goals (MDG), the proposals for mitigation and adaptation from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on its subsequent reports, as well as proposals by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) should be taken into account for projects in general and for civil construction projects in particular. The amount of waste generated by the construction industry and the resources consumed (energy, raw materials) in the lifecycle (construction, operating, maintaining, deconstruction) contribute to the enhancement of human ecological footprint. The project management objectives and requirements are changing. Now it is not just to reach the triple objective (time, cost and quality) and the performance provided by the promoter. There are new sustainability goals in civil engineering projects. The techniques to reach these sustainability goals in construction sector are analyzed and a methodologic frame of sustainable management is proposed. Keywords: Project Management, Sustainability, Climate Change, Sustainable Management, Civil engineering