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Project development

in a sustainable world

By Diana Miranda MSc., PSM Corporate Director, Mexichem

s a response to the Paris commitment, industrial projects’ development must
include sustainability within its conception. The industry challenge is to act as
a contributor under the equilibrium of, steady growth, law aligned and, cost-
Aeffective projects. Thus, the industry should execute projects that make use of
modern authorized products which provide a positive social and environmental value;
either for solving historical problems or developing and researching new product lines
taking into account the needs of a new automated age.

Project management practitioners should practitioners to implement. This inclusion positive impact is a strong possibility once
include “Sustainability” as an additional consequently, represents additional implemented.
topic to the known “triple constraint” uncertainty and risks for managing and Project Managers and Scientific
concept (time, scope and cost). It means, controlling; either during project initiation, Researchers should jointly include societal
grounding the concept by including planning, implementation and close-out. risks analysis and its management as part
the “societal impact” prevention as an The performance and risk potentiality of their duties. The entitlement requires
inherent part of the project objective analysis while in practice is a crucial task. specific skills from those involved in such
instead of only contemplating the effects Thus, business strategies should consider an important task, which implies more
after the execution. Even when the subject the impact project execution generates on than complex mathematical methods and
is frequently commented on and debated, the environment and society throughout decision-making capabilities. Analytical
it is still not a mandatory statement for the project’s lifecycle and beyond. The
skills for every scenario development,

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