Developing a decision-making framework to deal with MR&R challenges in a fit-for-purpose manner

Historical developments and innovations in the field of civil engineering contributed to the state-of-the- art structures that shape our transportation infrastructure network nowadays. By way of contrast, solving the mobility issues of the past, created a challenge in terms of conservation today as many assets are reaching the end of their...

Outsourcing maintenance using PBMC: Introducing a decision-support method for performance based maintenance contracts

When it comes down to building or maintaining civil infrastructure commissioned by a governmental body, a lot has changed during the last couple of years. The government made a turn from all determining body, to a cooperative partner and later even to an organization that’s outsourcing most of the construction and maintenance work to second and...

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...

Changing quality assurance, on the basis of the Building Decree, in construction: A research on the contractor adopting a pro-active attitude in quality assurance

This research is based on a new law relating quality assurance in construction that was proposed in 2016. The main aim of the legislative proposal is to improve the quality of construction by privatising the way of assessing quality on the basis of the Building Decree. The problem is that the contractor gets more responsibility in this process...

To Bid or not to Bid: that is the Question: Relating Contractor Bid Decisions to Tender Design Related Attributes

The construction industry has always been an important driver of the economy. An important part of the projects in this industry is commissioned by public entities. However, recently a trend can be observed in which the procurement process fails more often than before. Due to the current times of economic expansion in the Netherlands contractors...

A study into contract strategies based on existing moveable bridge projects: The influence of project parameters and client characteristics on construction contracting.

Currently there are a lot of contract types available for building projects. It is not always clear beforehand what type of contract a client should choose for his project. The goal of this study is to solve this problem by advising clients which type of contract to use for moveable bridge projects. Therefore, the following research question...