Small and medium sized enterprises’ construction logistics in urban areas: A framework to decrease the emissions caused by small-scale construction projects’ logistics in urban areas

The world is facing climate change which has sever impacts on extreme weather events, biodiversity and rising seas. Greenhouse gas emissions need to be reduced to counteract climate change. One specific way to contribute to that reduction is setting Zero-Emission (ZE) zones to ban fossil fuel vehicles in urban areas which will presumably lead to...

Data-Driven Project Management (DDPM) in the Construction Industry: An Exploratory Study

With the increasing amounts of data generated from various sources, companies are now aware of the data-driven applications more than ever. In the built environment, building or infrastructural projects are handed over as end-product and these projects are complex. Thus, this data disturbance requires multiple ways of project management...

Cost Performance and Cost Contingency during Project Execution: Comparing Client and Contractor Perspectives

Current literature shows that poor cost performance in projects has become routine. Research on cost performance has mostly focused on one of the involved parties, either the client or the contractor. Not many research efforts discuss the cost contingency performance of projects. This research discusses the cost performance and cost...

Cost contingency and cost evolvement of construction projects in the preconstruction phase

The current literature discusses the methods to estimate the costs and cost contingency. The literature also distinguishes "known unknowns" and "unknown unknowns" contingencies. Little is written, however, about the evolvement of total project cost estimates during the preconstruction phase of construction projects. Moreover, not many studies...

The design of risk sharing to promote cooperation

Cooperation figured prominently in the Dutch construction industry’s agenda over the past years. In 2016, major clients, sector organizations and the relevant market parties officially committed to promote a culture based on good cooperation and healthy relationships by signing the "Market Vision" (De Marktvisie, 2016). This document illustrates...

Increasing complexity to improve project success

A large number of the project organisations of large infrastructure construction projects have difficulties coping with the current static and dynamic project complexities. Researches, however, suggest that adding extra complexities to the project could create synergies and therefore new solutions. An increase in project complexity could...

Risk management in international construction projects: Towards effective implementation and enhanced performance

Due to the inherent complexity and innovative character of construction projects, the role of risk management has become increasingly crucial. Dealing with the multifaceted risks associated with international construction projects is important in order not only to make sure that the project objectives are secured but also to make profit. It is...

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...

Exploitative learning in inter-organizational projects: Evidence from Dutch infrastructure practices

Purpose - How learning is facilitated in inter-organizational projects remains underdeveloped in the literature. The aim of this study is to focus on viewing the relationship between the multiple organizations in a project, from a perspective of the learning aspect. Design/Methodology/Approach - This research analyses the learning trajectory...

Future-Proof Construction Projects in the FMCG Manufacturing Industry within the Context of Industry 4.0

Industry 4.0, the so-called fourth industrial revolution, is a future-oriented strategy to prepare industry for future production (Davies & Sendler, 2018a). The opportunities of the applications and technologies of Industry 4.0 have been researched (Hermann, Pentek, & Otto, 2016; Zhou & Liu, 2016). However, in practice, different...

Early Contractor Involvement in the Netherlands: The potential of ECI in public construction projects

Public construction projects have an image of poor performance, both in the Netherlands and other countries. Too many public projects go over budget and over time. A possible improvement to this poor performance could be Early Contractor Involvement (ECI). ECI literally translates to involving a contractor “early”, which in current practice...

Open for business: Project-specific value capture strategies of architectural firms

Architectural firms can be regarded as creative professional service firms. As such, architects need to navigate creative, professional and commercial goals, while simultaneously attempting to fulfil client, user and societal needs. This complex process is becoming increasingly difficult, as the historically established role of architects has...

Improving efficiency and environmental impact applying JIT logistics and transport consolidation in urban construction projects

The way in which construction logistics is organised has considerable impact on production flow, transportation efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions and congestion, particularly in urban areas such as city centres. In cities such as London and Amsterdam municipalities have issued new legislation and stricter conditions for vehicles to be able to...

Spatial information: An investigation into the impact of lacking spatial information in Dutch infrastructure projects

This research project focuses on the impact of lacking spatial information in the execution phase of Dutch infrastructure projects. In this research project, spatial information is defined as a combination of geometric and geographic object related information. Three construction projects have been examined through case studies and depth...

Embed trust in performance measurement of infrastructural alliance PPP-projects

Trust is a critical success factor for alliance PPP-projects, in which public and private parties closely collaborate to realize a construction project. In The Netherlands, there is an expected increase in PPP-projects, and the alliance arrangement seems to be an attractive form. Trust however, is an abstract and intangible concept, which is...

Tunnel Visions on Sustainability: Sustainability aspects and its selection process for road tunnel construction projects

Organizational effectiveness of building project organisations and greenfields to develop

The purpose of this paper is to explore and categorise the different approaches used to determine organizational effectiveness of construction project organizations. First, the conceptualization of organizational effectiveness is reviewed. This resulted in three main approaches that are used to categorise the approaches used within construction...

Management of stakeholder driven scope changes in large structural adaptations of airport terminals

Introduction A large structural terminal adaptation is like most large engineering projects an enormous and complex task. A large airport deals with many stakeholders both internal and external who exert influence and could cause scope changes. The scope of a project is developed by requirements of the client and users. These stakeholders could...