Sustainability in subcontractor and supplier selection: Qualitative research on the effectiveness of environmental EMAT criteria on achieving sustainability in the selection of subcontractors and suppliers in the Dutch infrastructure sector

The rapidly growing infrastructure sector has a detrimental effect on climate change. The infrastructure sector is responsible for approximately 10% of worldwide emissions. <br/>In the past years, sustainability became more important in the procurement of infrastructure projects. One of the ways to implement sustainability in infrastructure...

Identifying opportunities in large infrastructure projects for enhancing project value

This study explores towards the positive side of project uncertainties i.e., opportunity. Opportunities occuring in such projects has the potential to enhance the project’s initial objective and could add more value to the project. However, due to lack of an effective approach for opportunity identification and several constraints prevailing in...

Private financing for infrastructural projects in the Netherlands: Added value or illusion?

This thesis focuses on Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) for infrastructural projects, in which PPPs entail Design Build Finance Maintain (and Operate), or DBFM(O) contracts. The main differences of such contracts with more traditional contracts is the establishment of a project-specific Special Purpose Company (SPC), the need for external...