From value creation to value capture: Instruments of indirect value capture to fund investments in road infrastructure projects

The construction of a large hydropower project in Costa Rica: A transaction cost approach

Flexibility of the DBFM contract: Research into flexibility of DBFM contracts for transportation infrastructure

Recently, in the construction industry a shift is taking place from conventional contracts models, in which the client has the responsibility for the (re)design of an asset, to integrated contract models in which the role of the client is much more limited. Further, in integrated models for road infrastructure, projects are contracted for the...

Feasibility of Quantum Genetic Algorithm in Optimizing Construction Scheduling

The increasing scale of projects in civil engineering industries leads to the increase of the amount and complexity of data that need to be treated and calculated. As a new non-traditional way of computing, quantum computing shows extremely powerful capabilities in huge data analysis and processing. In this research we focus on optimizing civil...

Infrastructure foundation Maintenance Management: Towards an integral optimization of the Operation and Maintenance phase.

This research deals with the general problem of existing foundation of civil infrastructure in the Netherlands that is generally not included in the maintenance management cycle. This can lead in some cases to highly undesirable situations where a lot of time and money must be spent in order to provide a safe and available infrastructure...

Public project manager's perspective on project success: A research into the success determination of construction projects by project managers of the public party

Parties working together on a project usually have different interests in executing that project, but they all aim at achieving project success. This project success has been widely discussed in literature since reaching it is the main goal of each party; but what project success actually is and how it can be determined differs per party. In...

Chances for the Competitive Dialogue: An economic impact assessment of changing procurement legislation for the competitive dialogue procedure

The competitive dialogue is a procedure used by Rijkswaterstaat to obtain the most economically -effective contract available for ‘particularly complex’ projects. The procedure entails a dialogue, which may be phased, with the aim of developing one or more suitable alternatives capable of meeting its requirements. Due to changing legislation...