Practitioner and Advanced Sustainability Programme

Sustainable Project Delivery

Translate sustainability commitments into practical project requirements, governance, procurement choices, delivery controls and measurable lifecycle value.

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Course overview

Make sustainability a delivery discipline rather than a statement of intent.

Sustainable Project Delivery develops the capability to integrate environmental, social, economic and governance considerations into the complete project lifecycle.

The programme focuses on the decisions project leaders can influence: requirements, design choices, sourcing, contracts, risks and opportunities, stakeholder impacts, delivery controls, acceptance, transition and benefits.

Participants work through a realistic project case and produce an impact assessment, prioritised sustainability requirements, governance controls, procurement criteria, metrics, traceability and a measurable delivery plan.

Learning outcomes

What participants will be able to do.

By the end of the course, participants should be able to:

  • Explain how sustainability affects project purpose, success criteria, governance and lifecycle decision-making.
  • Identify material environmental, social, economic and governance issues relevant to a project and its stakeholders.
  • Assess positive and negative impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunities across the project and product lifecycle.
  • Translate sustainability priorities into clear, testable and traceable project requirements.
  • Evaluate alternative scope, design, delivery and operating choices using transparent sustainability criteria and trade-offs.
  • Integrate responsible sourcing, supplier evaluation, contract expectations and supply-chain evidence into procurement decisions.
  • Assign ownership, decision rights, escalation routes and assurance controls for sustainability performance.
  • Develop balanced indicators, baselines, targets and evidence for monitoring project and lifecycle outcomes.
  • Manage change, transition, acceptance and stakeholder engagement so intended sustainability benefits can be realised.
  • Produce a practical sustainability delivery plan with actions, owners, measures, traceability and review points.

Who should attend

Designed for professionals who shape project choices, controls, procurement and outcomes.

  • Project and programme managers.
  • Project sponsors and governance-board members.
  • PMO, assurance and project-controls professionals.
  • Procurement, commercial and contract-management professionals.
  • Engineering, design, operations and asset-management leaders.
  • Sustainability, ESG, risk and compliance professionals.

Prerequisites

Practical, cross-functional and lifecycle focused.

  • Practical experience of projects, programmes, procurement or operational change is recommended.
  • No specialist environmental qualification is required.
  • Participants should understand basic project governance, requirements, risk and stakeholder concepts.
  • Corporate cohorts may use a current capital, digital, organisational or service project as the principal case.

Course structure

Five integrated modules from materiality and impacts to requirements, governance, procurement and lifecycle value.

The programme follows the complete project lifecycle and uses one evolving case to connect purpose, materiality, design, sourcing, control, transition and benefits.

1

Module 1

Sustainability context, materiality and project purpose

  • Sustainability in project and programme decision-making.
  • Project purpose, strategic commitments and stakeholder expectations.
  • Environmental, social, economic and governance dimensions.
  • Materiality, boundaries, dependencies and lifecycle thinking.
  • Defining sustainability success criteria.
2

Module 2

Impacts, risks, opportunities and requirements

  • Positive and negative impact assessment.
  • Sustainability risks, opportunities and uncertainty.
  • Stakeholder and community consequences.
  • Converting priorities into measurable requirements.
  • Requirements ownership, acceptance and traceability.
3

Module 3

Design choices, procurement and supply-chain responsibility

  • Comparing scope, design and delivery alternatives.
  • Resource use, carbon, energy, waste, resilience and circularity considerations.
  • Responsible sourcing and supplier evaluation.
  • Contract clauses, performance expectations and evidence.
  • Commercial trade-offs and whole-life value.
4

Module 4

Governance, controls, metrics and assurance

  • Decision rights, ownership and escalation.
  • Sustainability controls within project governance.
  • Baselines, targets, leading and lagging indicators.
  • Data quality, evidence and reporting discipline.
  • Assurance, exceptions, corrective action and change control.
5

Module 5

Transition, lifecycle benefits and continuous improvement

  • Operational readiness and sustainable handover.
  • Adoption, capability and stakeholder engagement.
  • Benefits ownership, measurement and erosion risks.
  • Post-implementation review and lifecycle learning.
  • Sustainability delivery plan and executive commitments.

Learning experience

Assess, translate, decide, source, govern and mobilise.

Participants learn by integrating sustainability into a complete project case rather than treating it as a separate reporting workstream.

Assess

Materiality and impact workshop

Participants identify the issues, stakeholders, lifecycle boundaries and consequences that materially affect the project.

Translate

Requirements and traceability laboratory

Teams convert sustainability priorities into measurable requirements, owners, acceptance criteria and evidence.

Decide

Sustainable option challenge

Participants compare design and delivery alternatives using transparent criteria, trade-offs and whole-life consequences.

Source

Procurement and supplier simulation

Teams design evaluation criteria, contractual expectations, evidence and supplier-performance controls.

Govern

Metrics and assurance review

Participants establish ownership, baselines, indicators, review points, exceptions and corrective actions.

Mobilise

Sustainability delivery plan

Each team presents an integrated plan covering requirements, procurement, controls, transition, benefits and lifecycle learning.

Course completion

Demonstrate sustainability delivery judgement across the project lifecycle.

  • Participate actively in materiality, requirements, option and procurement simulations.
  • Complete the principal impact, governance, measurement and traceability outputs.
  • Contribute to the final sustainability delivery-plan presentation and challenge.
  • Prepare a practical workplace application or improvement plan.

Participant outputs

Typical course outputs include:

  • Project sustainability context and materiality map.
  • Impact, risk and opportunity assessment.
  • Prioritised sustainability requirements register.
  • Sustainable option-evaluation framework.
  • Responsible procurement and supplier-control plan.
  • Governance, metrics and assurance framework.
  • Integrated sustainability delivery and lifecycle-benefits plan.

Delivery options

Choose the format that fits your projects and sustainability environment.

Instructor-led

Live Classroom

Face-to-face delivery with facilitated impact assessment, requirements, procurement, governance and lifecycle workshops.

Instructor-led

Live Virtual Classroom

Interactive online delivery using collaborative canvases, breakout analysis and real-time option and governance challenges.

Flexible

Blended Learning

A structured combination of preparation, live workshops, applied sustainability assignments and follow-up.

Organisation-specific

Corporate and In-Company

Tailored delivery aligned with the organisation’s sustainability commitments, project lifecycle, procurement model and reporting environment.

Frequently asked questions

Course information and participation.

Is this an environmental-management course?

Environmental considerations are included, but the programme is broader. It integrates environmental, social, economic and governance factors into project delivery.

Is the course relevant to digital and organisational-change projects?

Yes. The methods apply to capital, digital, service, policy and organisational projects, with examples adapted to the participant group.

Does the programme cover sustainable procurement?

Yes. Participants address sourcing strategy, supplier evaluation, contractual expectations, evidence and supplier-performance controls.

Will participants produce measurable indicators?

Yes. Baselines, targets, leading and lagging indicators, data evidence and review points are central course outputs.

Does course completion provide a professional certification?

The programme develops sustainable project-delivery capability and may provide an INDENTRA completion record where applicable. It is not presented as a third-party professional certification unless separately stated.

Take the next step

Turn sustainability ambition into governed project action and lifecycle value.

Discuss public delivery, a specialist cohort or a tailored programme aligned with your organisation’s sustainability and project-delivery priorities.

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INDENTRA may adapt sequencing, exercises and examples to suit the delivery format and participant profile while preserving the stated learning outcomes.