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Project Life Cycle

Pre Basic Execution
Feasibility Feasibility Develop- & Launch Hand-over
ment Testing
Project
Life Cycle
Pre-
Manufac-
turing
Detailed Con- Operations/ Decom-
Design struction Main- missioning
tenance
Asset Life Cycle
Product
Usage

Phase-out
&
Disposal

Figure 2.2
The triple-P concept of sustainability. From California Academy of Sciences, San
Francisco.

reduCe, redesign, reuse, reCyCle

It is not by accident that the words are listed in this order. The best solution
to save valuable resources is to reduce their usage. The project manager,
in the forefront of resource usage, has the largest impact. Finding more
innovative, efficient, and smarter ways to spend the limited resources is a
way to reduce their usage. When all possibilities to reduce resource usage
are exhausted, redesign is another possibility. The project manager can ask
the following questions:

• Is there a way to change the project management process so that it is
more efficient and use fewer resources?
• Is there a way to redesign the product of the project to use less of
whatever resources are needed to manufacture, implement, or con-
trol the product?
• What can I do to help the process and product?
• What can the team do to help the process of product—the whole
process, from inception to disposal?