An exploratory research into the application of the Value Added: The current application and possible optimisations of the Value Added in the Dutch construction industry

Collaborative Servitization: Designing a decision support model for matching asset owners and manufacturers to enact collaborative servitization in the Dutch maritime industry

Using tangible 3D models and objects for communication and collaboration

New 3D printing techniques enables companies to rapidly create high-quality and full-coloured objects. This allows them to create tangible objects to communicate ideas and concepts, instead of conventional flat 2D presentations.In order to explore what opportunities this innovation can provide, a deeper understanding of the impact of using...

A Support System for managing Early Supplier Involvement in New Product Development

In many sectors, companies are striving to involve suppliers in early phases of product development. This involvement aims at fulfilling new market and business demands such as reducing development time, reducing time-to-market, improving product quality or facilitating the launch of products in a highly competitive environment. In this context,...

Midwest Peripheral Collaboration Complex

Design of Urban Strategy, Masterplan, Hotel and Offices besides Chicago's Midway Airport.

Views to deal with the challenges of implementing Best Value: A study to provide guidelines to optimize the client - contractor relationship in the clarification and execution phase

In order to realise more focus on quality in tenders the construction industry must move away from the low-bid arena characterised by specifications, qualifications, standards and management and inspection by the client. New procedures must be adopted to react on the need for harmonized procurement policies for public contracting authorities,...

Factors influencing collaboration within a partnership of large infrastructural project in the Netherlands: An exploratory research into factors influencing collaboration according to an individual's view, in a specific formed centre of collaboration

Within the current Dutch construction industry, complex and extensive civil engineering projects are often executed by private partnerships, with a public client (the Dutch department of public works, better known as Rijkswaterstaat). Large projects in this context are considered multimillion euro projects, characterised as uncertain, complex,...

ArchWiki: Using Web 2.0 for Architecture Knowledge Management

Software architecture plays an important part in program comprehension, which is one of the most time consuming tasks in software development. If software developers don’t properly share their architectural knowledge with team members, the team will act based on an incomplete or even possibly incorrect view on the code base, and this can lead to...

Crowdsourcing students for open-innovation

Nowadays, many researchers and companies are seeking to provide answers to a fundamental question: “How can an organization apply collective intelligence through open innovation and crowdsourcing to create competitive advantage?” On the other hand, the global growth of on-line sales, the web 2.0 revolution and the ability to reach users,...

Representing Collaboration in Concurrent Design Process by Using BPMN2.0 Modelling Language: Whether collaboration issues can be better learned and benefited by using BPMN2.0 modelling language in concurrent design process of ESA projects?

This MSc research intends to use modelling method to represent collaboration system and develop improvement suggestions. The represented collaboration system is under the background of concurrent design process in ESA design projects. The whole research can be mainly separated into three parts. The first part is related to explore suitable...

Supporting convergence in groups: (re-) design and evaluation of two thinkLets for convergence and a technique for similarity detection

To solve complex problems brainstorming with a Group Support System can be a helpful tool. Social comparison and association effects are factors that stimulate the generation of creative and high quality ideas or concepts. Also, the GSS’ capabilities that allow a group to work in parallel contributes to the swiftness with which a fast growing...