RISK FOR THE BOUWTEAM: Developing an empirical case-based model for risks, their allocation and control strategies when Bouwteams are used as Project Delivery Method

RISK FOR THE BOUWTEAM: Developing an empirical case-based model for risks, their allocation and control strategies when Bouwteams are used as Project Delivery Method

Correa Galdeano, Francisco (TU Delft Civil Engineering & Geosciences)

Leijten, M. (mentor)
Bosch-Rekveldt, M.G.C. (graduation committee)
Hoseini, E. (graduation committee)
Cheung, Lonneke (graduation committee)
Bakker, Jorrit (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Delft University of Technology

Civil Engineering | Construction Management and Engineering

2022-05-30

The construction industry has been, throughout time, heavily hindered by cost overruns and delays in the delivery of projects. This picture has only been magnified by the increased size, complexity, and urgent demand for their delivery. Responding to this circumstance has taken different paths. One of these has been updating and improving how the relevant parties of a project interact to achieve the intended results. This way, alternative delivery methods have emerged with different adaptations depending on the country's legislation and policies. A general acceptance has been gained over those systems where the parties interact more closely to reach a final product. This moves away from the classical division between Client and Contractor. Usually, the first takes a controlling role, while the second proceeds on the elaboration of the documents and works. The alternative approach requires from the participants a high component of collaboration. As a scheme where the Contractor is involved from an early stage of the project, the Dutch construction industry has used for a long time the Bouwteam agreement. However, the original drafted model lags from the updates implemented into the country's legal framework. This situation resulted in two independent organizations releasing their interpretation of this concept. The developed agreements give a good perspective on the activities to be done by the different parties during its implementation. However, these do not provide a clear insight into the Allocation and Control of the risks among the participants. Intending to incorporate the missing aspects of the Risk Management process within this collaborative setting, a model was developed to help identify hot spot areas of Risk when Bouwteams are used as a Project Delivery Method. The research also proposes a set of control strategies to help effectively tackle these. A multimethod approach was implemented, with different techniques following the same epistemological perspective. First, a Literature Review was used to build on the concepts relative to Project Delivery Methods and Risk Management methodologies. An empirical study with the analysis of four infrastructure projects in The Netherlands was carried out. During this second phase, the documentation of the projects was examined, and interviews with the project participants were held to investigate the risk management process when using this agreement. The result was a preliminary model consisting of three elements linked to the steps of the Risk Management Process; a set of Risks for the Bouwteam clustered in Risk Groups; a diagram to help assist in the allocation decision; and Control Strategies for these risks. The model was validated through an expert review, and insights into its possible implementation were discussed. The research concludes with a final model and a roadmap for its implementation. Procedural aspects and a set of contractual provisions are needed to incorporate the allocation and control of risks before and throughout the design phase. The elements presented in this research could work as the blueprint to include these within the Bouwteam setting.

Risk Management
Project Delivery Methods
Bouwteam
Risk Allocation
Risk Control
Two-phase delivery
Case-based modeling

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Student theses

master thesis

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