Sustainable Project Management Practices Aligned with SDG 11: Sustainable Cities Urban infrastructure development through sustainable planning techniques

Abstract

The issue of sustainable project management (SPM) has become essential to the way of achieving that the urban infrastructure development is in accordance with global Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG 11) namely Sustainable Cities and Communities as set by the United Nations. The current paper studies how the methods of sustainable planning may be incorporated into the work of a project manager to encourage the resilience, inclusivity, and sustainable environmental policies of urban infrastructure. The research synthesized existing literature on sustainability in construction, design of smart cities and life-cycle cost evaluation to determine some of the important practices such as green buildings, participatory urban planning, adaptive project planning and circular economy values. The new structure shows how urban developments can reduce environmental effects, as it increases socio-economic gains. At the methodological level, the Mixed-Method approach, which comprises case study analysis and sustainability performance analysis is taken. Findings have shown that the implemented projects in which sustainability is assessed through the integration of integrated models have demonstrable proportional decreases in carbon footprint as well as stakeholder satisfaction and increases in urban resilience. Nevertheless, the possible shortcomings are that the initial investment costs are very high, the institutions are resistant to change, and fissures in technical expertise occur. The areas of research in the future should include scalable digital twin integration, climate-risk predictive modeling and localized sustainability indicators that can be used to streamline project management in sustainable urban development...