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Borpujari, Abhishek (author)This research focusses on delivering a proposed procedure that determines interactions among multiple changes. The basis for this is obtained from literature and research papers that focus on the cumulative impacts of multiple project changes. The construction industry is currently suffering from a productivity problem, resulting from the...master thesis 2018
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Kroon, Ruby (author)This research analysed the effects of using an AR co-design environment as a supportive tool during design meetings, on the interaction within a project team.<br/>Lacking interaction is a problem that occurs project wide in the construction industry and can cause diverse effects, leading to mistakes and rework. This lack often originates in the...master thesis 2018
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Keizer, Hilde (author)Winning tenders is vital to the acquisition of work for project-based organizations (Philbin, 2008; Morris & Pinto, 2004). This necessity is due to the fact that within The Netherlands 80% of all revenue within the GWW sector is initiated by the government and therefore must be awarded through a tender procedure consistent to European...master thesis 2018
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Engelhart, Eric (author)“Who of us would not be happy to lift the veil behind which the future is hidden and to focus our thoughts on the unknown future” (Shepherd & Williams, 2015). What if we already know our unknowns, would it not be a piece of cake to deliver construction projects of high quality within time and budget? In order to predict the unknown future,...master thesis 2018
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Oosterhof, Arjan (author)Structured interviews and 5 case studies on the misalignment of client and consultant's expectations of CM in Industrial EPCM projects, and limitations in practice. Thesis is concluded with recommendations in order to bridge the misalignment.master thesis 2018
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Odio Pozuelo, Julian Odio (author)Traditional construction planning and performance control tools such as Gantt Charts and S Curves fail to visually represent physical project progress, construction sequence, interfaces and the critical path, which means that decision makers carry out their job with incomplete information. Moreover, these tools motivate a quantity-oriented...master thesis 2018
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Rustema, Roeland (author)Agile management has revealed itself as a management approach that copes with an unclear product scope and fast-changing circumstances. This approach has gained popularity by projects in fast changing environments, such as the information technology (IT) industry. Nevertheless, many companies that adopted agile methods are still structured...master thesis 2018
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Arjun Jayakumar, Arjun (author)The research explores ways to improve productivity in turnaround/shutdown projects from a contractor perspective.master thesis 2018
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Loryś, Karolina (author)In general most megaprojects are finished over the budget and later than initially expected. Despite all industries seem to struggle with achieving the desired performance, the lowest performance is found in projects executed in the oil and gas sector. Furthermore the productivity rates in construction industry are the lowest among other...master thesis 2018
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Zonneveld, Xander (author)The construction industry gets increasingly aware of the importance and value of people. Considering the nature of construction projects a certain level of collaboration is needed to successfully deliver a project. Throughout the complete project life cycle of large engineering projects, multiple actors are involved. As in any other industry and...master thesis 2018
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Hols, Danny (author)Risk appetite is an important directive for the risk management strategy (Hopkin, 2014). At the present there is not much consensus on the appearance of a risk appetite, how it should be established and in which way it could be used (Quail, 2012). This shows a clear knowledge gap about what risk appetite actually comprises. Despite the...master thesis 2018
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van Lieshout, Sheneequa (author)The Dutch construction industry is rising again. The economical crisis has had a major impact on the infrastructure sector, as the sector has experienced many cutbacks. Even though the economy is recovering, the consequences of these cutbacks are still present. According to the Economisch Instituut voor de Bouw (2016), the Dutch infrastructure...master thesis 2018
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Reijndorp, Florine (author)In practice, scope management is hampered by several bottlenecks. In this thesis, these bottlenecks are identified and solutions to overcome them are presented in the form of a scope management implementation guide. This guide provides insight in the steps that must be followed, the responsible actor of each step and the bottlenecks that hamper...master thesis 2018
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Westhoff, Arlette (author)The investment characteristics of wind parks have been analysed, the different risks to which a wind park investor requires compensation, the different models that can translate risk into returns, and finally the returns have been calculated with this model for different wind parks.master thesis 2018
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Sonneveld, Jasper (author)“Successful project teams lead to more successful projects” (B. N. Baker, Murphy, & Fisher, 2008) and better collaboration within project teams lead to more successful projects (Hoegl & Gemuenden, 2001). Hence, proper collaboration within project teams is of high importance to the successful outcome of a project. However, in a...master thesis 2018
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van Eeden, Bob (author)Rijkswaterstaat (RWS) is responsible for the design, construction, management, and maintenance of the central infrastructure facilities in the Netherlands. To improve project management, RWS developed a management methodology called Integral Project Management (IPM). At the basis of the IPM model are seven construction processes which are...master thesis 2017
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Kröse, Maarten (author)Despite continuous efforts to improve, the construction industry is prone to failure of large infrastructure projects in terms of time and cost overruns. It is believed good interface management is contributing to the success of infrastructure projects. The research has been executed at Heijmans, a major contractor in the Netherlands. The...master thesis 2017
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Eggermont, Ivo (author)’What can be improved in the collaboration between general contractor and subcontractor to attain higher project performance and relationship continuity?’. This was the central question in this research. It is found that the design of the contract is basically abandoned. The contract is designed to have few inter-organizational relations, issues...master thesis 2017
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