A strategy towards integrating sustainability into the procurement practices in projects: Developing a sustainability framework for EPC companies

Sustainability is seen as one of the most important challenges faced by the world today (Silvius, 2017). Within EPC companies, there are quite some ambitions at the strategic level to integrate sustainability into project procurement, but implementation at the project level is still quite limited. Additionally, existing literature focusing on...

Green Public Procurement in the Dutch Construction Sector: A qualitative research on the inclusion of 
environmental requirements 
in procurement of construction projects

One way to reduce the environmental impact of the construction sector is the inclusion of environmental requirements in the procurement of construction projects, also called Green Public Procurement (GPP). This thesis first analysed the current inclusion of environmental requirements in the invitation to bid, bid and assessment of the bid....

Bouwen aan de Circulaire Economie: "Een betere wereld begint bij het stellen van een betere vraag"

Since the beginning of industrial evolution, industrialization has created a dominating unilateral production- and consumption model. This one-way model of production, also described as a linear model, encompasses a ‘take, make, waste’ pattern in which natural resources are extracted from the Earth, manufactured into goods, used and eventually...

Duurzaamheid als Aanbestedingscriterium bij Haveninvesteringen

Many industries are already aware of the fact that they can gain higher profits by integrating sustainability within their management process. The construction industry seems to be a late developer. Lately, port authorities have started many initiatives for a more sustainable port. To make ports more sustainable it is worthwhile to improve the...