The Need for Effective Front-End Planning for Project Execution Success: HARC Sustainable Building

The era of continuous change has resulted in an evolution of society. As a consequence, there has been a negative impact on the environment. The rampant misuse of the natural resources can be observed across the globe. There is a need to follow early mechanisms such as front end planning to have zero damage at the final stage of any project. This paper is an attempt to analyze a case study of sustainable commercial building, Houston Advance Research Centre (HARC) that puts HARC building ahead of other buildings in terms of cost reduction and time savings. Qualitative research methodology has been used to understand and explore the concept of front end planning for successful project execution in case of HARC. It results in benefits such as more predictability of cost and schedule, reduction in probability of project failures and also improvement in operational performance.