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

A database for Dutch infrastructure projects and their results

Public Project Management in North-Western Europe: Perspectives on project management success

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...

Combining Early Contractor Involvement and Availability-Based Contracting in Complex Infrastructure Projects

Improving Risk Management Through Knowledge and Experience Sharing

A framework in the second disaster reduction norm (NRD-2): Minimum safety aspects for public buildings in Guatemala

Systems Engineering and Functional Specification assessed

Developments in the Dutch civil sector resulted in a shift of the solution-oriented approach of the market towards a more problem oriented approach. In a problem oriented approach, the principal has to provide the contractor with a larger solution space. This can be achieved by focussing on the definition of the problem instead of the solution....

Decision Making on the Safety of Tunnels. When can a tunnel be considered safe?

Building on tunnels: Suggestions to improve the decision making process

Innovation in road maintenance: A comparative study into Dutch and Queensland current practice

The goal of his research is to create insight into the possibilities for facilitating, stimulating and making use of innovation in road maintenance during the contract period. Use is made of two stepping-stones: the Living Building Concept and Queensland current practice. The Living Building Concept prescribes and defines contractor-led...

Inzicht in stadionontwikkeling: Een onderzoek naar het besluitvormingsproces van de verbouw of nieuwbouw van stadions voor Betaald Voetbal Organisaties in Nederland

De belangstelling voor betaald voetbal in Nederland is groter dan ooit. Om aan deze stijgende verwachting te kunnen voldoen, is menig Betaald Voetbal Organisatie (BVO) bezig met de ontwikkeling van een nieuw stadion. BVO´s zijn door een gebrek aan financiële middelen echter vaak genoodzaakt om toenadering te zoeken tot andere partijen. Andere...

Purchasing Maturity of Rijkswaterstaat Process and organization assessment of the purchasing function

Purchase has been quiet a new profession field for Rijkswaterstaat (RWS), since it has introduced the ‘corporate purchasing strategy’. As it had prescribed the market in a detailed way ‘what’ to do for decades, it ‘buys’ its infrastructure assets from the market now. The need to assess this new strategic function of RWS originates from the fact...

Towards a New Model for Collaboration: Evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiency of the “Aronsohn contracting vision”

The research in this thesis is about the Aronsohn contracting vision, an innovative contract form developed by Aronsohn management. After successfully applying the method on a number of projects they were interested in a more formal evaluation of the method. This evaluation is presented in this report. The idea of Aronsohn is compared to the...

The redesign of interfaces between passenger processes: Improving passenger processes through collaboration, cooperation, and communication between KLM and other stakeholders at Schiphol

Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: Turning promises into performance. Modeling the business requirements for improvement of ERP system's benefit realization