project management success factors

PROJECT MANAGEMENT SUCCESS FACTORS FOR
SUSTAINABLE HOUSING: A FRAMEWORK
Abu Hassan Abu Bakar1, Arman Abd Razak, Shardy Abdullah and Aidah Awang2
School of Housing,Building and Planning,
Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
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ABSTRACT

Housing is the critical issue in global urbanization which have a tremendous impact on the environment – both during construction and through out their. As the key element in urban development, housing plays a vital role in attaining the goal of sustainable development.
Effective of project management is becoming increasingly important for sustainable housing to remain competitive in today‟s dynamic business environment. This paper attempt to establish a theoretical framework for project management success factors in sustainable housing development. Review on past literature on the subject were carried out to build the existing research works on the area and to establish critical success factors of project management best practices. At the end of this paper, a new area of managing sustainable housing for future direction of this research was identified. A list of critical success factors for project management practices for sustainable housing development was established.

Keywords: Sustainable Housing, Sustainable Development Project Management, Critical
Success Factors.

1.0 INTRODUCTION
Housing, as human basic need, is a very important issue of people‟s everyday life. In 1948, the United Nations, in its Universal Declaration of Human Rights, stated that “everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services…” .
Housing provision is one of the major challenges facing developing countries. Under the
Seventh Malaysia Plan (1999-2000) and Eight Malaysia Plan (2001-2005), Malaysian governments are committed to

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