Dealing with uncertainty in the challenge of the energy transition

Building upon a conceptual framework of elements that play a role in the management of uncertainties, an empirical study was performed to learn about the uncertainties in the energy transition. For this, interviews were held and an expert panel was organized. <br/><br/>It was found that uncertainty is an unavoidable element of project management...

Exploring change: Investigating the drivers of public authorities in the infrastructure sector to start with new contract strategies

The purpose of this research was contributing to better understand the drivers of public authorities in the Dutch infrastructure sector to change their contract strategy. In the awareness of the complex multi-layered phenomena of change in the public sector, this deductive research adopted the theory of Kuipers et al. (2014) and implemented it...

Implementation fidelity of circularity in publicly tendered civil engineering projects

With the current urgency to become more circular, procurement presents the primary method to deliver the circular policy ambition by purchasing circular products and stimulating circularity in the market. In the building and infrastructure sector, civil engineering projects offer unique opportunities for circularity. This research presents an...

Understanding the internal commissioning role: An explorative study on public managers in Dutch public sector organisations in their role as internal commissioner involved in the realisation phase of infrastructure projects

Previous research assessing public organisations in the delivery of infrastructure projects mainly focuses on public project delivery organisations and their interaction with private parties. However, many challenges experienced by these project delivery organisations relate to the interaction with the public parent organisation. In practice,...

How to improve collaboration in infrastructure Bouwteams: A comparative study towards collaboration in Dutch building and transportation infrastructure projects

The Bouwteam is in both the building and infrastructure sector increasingly mentioned as a possibility to improve client-contractor collaboration. Currently, compared to the building sector, the infrastructure sector lags behind in applying this collaboration format. This research aims to investigate to what level building and infrastructure...

Classifying the contextual dependency of critical quality factors: A study towards the identification of critical quality factors in the field of project management

How to allocate risks? Research into the allocation of risks between public and private organisations for large infrastructure projects in the Netherlands

Is project success a coincidence or can it be enforced? A comparative study on the critical success factors of the Stadsbrug Nijmegen project and similar civil engineering projects in the Netherlands

Effectieve informatie-uitwisseling binnen Nederlandse DBFM weginfrastructuurprojecten

Since ten years contractors receive another question of public clients (government, local authorities) in the Dutch Civil Engineering sector. This question is in the form of integrated contracts, in which design, construction and/or maintenance are clustered. In projects contracted with the contract form Design (D), Built (B), Finance (F) and...

Factors influencing collaboration within a partnership of large infrastructural project in the Netherlands: An exploratory research into factors influencing collaboration according to an individual's view, in a specific formed centre of collaboration

Within the current Dutch construction industry, complex and extensive civil engineering projects are often executed by private partnerships, with a public client (the Dutch department of public works, better known as Rijkswaterstaat). Large projects in this context are considered multimillion euro projects, characterised as uncertain, complex,...

Public project manager's perspective on project success: A research into the success determination of construction projects by project managers of the public party

Parties working together on a project usually have different interests in executing that project, but they all aim at achieving project success. This project success has been widely discussed in literature since reaching it is the main goal of each party; but what project success actually is and how it can be determined differs per party. In...