Towards Proactive Integration of Sustainability in Projects: A framework for integrating sustainability at the operational level of EPC contracting organization

In recent years, the concept of sustainability has grown in popularity and has become a critical strategic component for businesses (Garza, 2013). Corporate organizations, as the industry's productive drivers, play a crucial role in attaining sustainable development. Thus, the problems have shifted from "WHY" to "HOW" to integrate sustainability...

A strategy towards integrating sustainability into the procurement practices in projects: Developing a sustainability framework for EPC companies

Sustainability is seen as one of the most important challenges faced by the world today (Silvius, 2017). Within EPC companies, there are quite some ambitions at the strategic level to integrate sustainability into project procurement, but implementation at the project level is still quite limited. Additionally, existing literature focusing on...

The trade-off between the 'Traditional' and the ‘Modularization & Standardization’ business model in the incumbent plant engineering industry: Developing a framework that can help plant engineers in the assessment between staying 'traditional' or going M&S

The incumbent (chemical) plant engineering industry is under pressure for two reasons. At first, the rising internationalization of the economy results in low-cost competitors putting pressure on prices and lead times of projects. Secondly, the decreasing oil prices result in major investment cuts in the oil & gas and chemical industry. As a...