Creating Cross Organisational Safety Management: Possibility of Public-Private Safety Collaboration

This research focusses on finding an answer to the question how can safety be improved in a public-private environment. By means of literature and a case study some improvement opportunities are identified, which pose promising opportunities for improving safety management. The research focused on one of the opportunities, a collaborative...

Multidisciplinary assessment of engineered dunes for West End, Galveston Island, Texas

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is scheduled to present their solution for a storm surge barrier on Galveston Island in 2021 to congress for approval. A solution for an engineered dune system on the Galveston Island West End has been proposed, but storm surge models have shown that protection from this engineered dune only goes...

Exploring the use of agile project management for infrastructure projects: Creating and using a serious research game to test the use of agile project management for infrastructure projects

This thesis researched the possible use of agile project management for infrastructure project through the use of a serious research game. The thesis showed that there are different serious games and created a serious research game. By playing the serious research game with agile and traditional project management experts a hypothesis was...

Managing Projects Agile: How Agile can contribute to successfully completing projects in high-tech organizations

In general, projects still fail at a high rate. New project management approaches have been found to try and do something about the high rate of failing projects. One of these promising modern approaches is Agile project management. It has been practiced increasingly since recent years in many sectors, most evident in the ICT sector. Though...

Towards Information Integrated Design Management: A study on the effects of inter-disciplinary information dependency on design in construction design projects

This M.Sc. thesis is related to the use of Design Structure Matrix (DSM), a design process modeling technique, to model, analyze and improve design processes in Oil and Gas Construction Projects. DSM was used to model the design process of an engineering design section at an Oil and Gas Engineering Company using the information dependencies in...

Success factors to the client-contractor collaboration in the Dutch infrastructure sector: A comparative study of the client-contractor collaboration within ECI and D&C projects in the Dutch infrastructure sector

In the past decade the relationship between the client and contractor in the Dutch infrastructure sector has been disrupted. This disrupted relationship can mainly be characterised as adversarial and distrusting. Additionally, this has resulted in a growing number of disputes between the client and the contractor. As a result of the adversarial...

Bouwteam: For more collaboration in the construction industry

Bouwteam is a collaboration agreement in which the contracor is involved early on to work together with the client to make a design in which the knowledge of the client and the contractor is used optimally. Through the years the Bouwteam has been influenced by integrated contracts and has been changing in a variety of ways. Nowadays, there is...

Optimizing contact moments between the public and private organizations to create more value in DBFM infrastructure projects

Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) are currently the desired project delivery method for big infrastructure projects in the Netherlands. PPPs contain a lot of contact moments between both organizations. Contractors encountered the problem that not all contact moments create public or private value, some might cause a loss of value. This thesis...

(Mis)alignment between tender and practice: A study on Dutch infrastructure projects publicly procured according to the Best Price Quality Ratio tender procedure

Since the introduction of Best Price Quality Ratio (BPQR) tendering, specific (non-financial) tender elements in the bid can also be decisive for winning the tender. These so-called qualitative aspects are therefore important means in the tender to distinguish a bid from competing bids. Although competition is believed to enhance a fair quality...

Short-cyclic scheduling in construction projects: An exploratory study on finding the critical project factors for determining the appropriateness of projects for short-cyclic scheduling during the realization phase

To cope with the current problems in the construction industry, project managers and scholars seek new methods to turn the tide. Many scholars blame traditional management approaches for cost overruns and delays occurring in current projects. To find solutions, project managers introduce tools from various sectors that have coped with similar...

Marinas in Argentina: A feasability study for a network of marinas in the Buenos Aires Province coast

According to themselves, Argentinians are living with their backs towards the sea. In order to turn this around, a feasability study has been done to find out how a network of marinas along the coast of the province would look like, based on a MCDA including all urban areas along the coast and a fleet analysis. A final network has been proposed...

Utlizing Virtual Reality in a dynamic stakeholder process: Exploring the added value of using Virtual Reality in the stakeholder process of complex infrastructure projects.

Virtual Reality (VR) is a hot topic; some argue that VR causes a computing revolution as impactful as the smartphone. The infrastructure industry recently adopted VR as a tool in the stakeholder process. This thesis defines Virtual Reality as a three-dimensional virtual environment in which one can interact. VR is applied in several projects...

Fit-for-purpose project management: An exploratory research into the practice of project management for infrastructure at three Dutch waterboards

The construction of infrastructure in the Netherlands is initiated by the Dutch government and performed in the form of projects. Yearly about €8 billion is spent on infrastructure and in the construction sector 50% of the projects are initiated by public clients. Project management methodologies are the working methods of these public clients....