Sustainability through the TEAM EFFORT Formula Lynda M. Hegarty 1 and Rodney P.J. McDermott 2 and W. Alan Strong 3 1 School of Hospitality, Tourism & Sport, North West Regional College, Londonderry 2 School of the Built Environment, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland 3 School of the Built Environment, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland Abstract: This paper examines a “Team Effort” formula as a means of both delivering sustainability in the built environment context and evaluating pedagogical concepts. The conceptual formula of: TE (team effort) = AM (appropriate management) + EF (evaluation framework) + FO (focused outlook) + RT (risk translation), examines a range of criteria drawn from each element of the formula in pursuit of specifically improved project management. These are set in the context of the sustainability agenda. The aim of this study, involving over 100 students, is to highlight the value of ’learning from acrostics’, the independent evaluation of concepts and the need to adopt a high level integrative visionary approach in developing a model for project and sports management teaching. It has been found that students engage constructively with a variety of information transfer methods and that they need prompting to recognise aspects of sustainable development within this Team Effort formula. However, there was a resounding agreement that this approach is the delivery of specific lectures would be beneficial to students in the short- and long-term. 1 brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by Ulster University's Research Portal