Moving towards a sustainable housing construction supply chain

To prevent and reverse detrimental climate and biodiversity change, it is essential to motivate the housing construction supply chain to reduce the emission of carbon and nitrogen. The need to reduce the amount of emitted greenhouse gases and nitrogen oxides (NOx) is even more urgent in the Dutch housing construction. Currently, little research...

Sustainability in subcontractor and supplier selection: Qualitative research on the effectiveness of environmental EMAT criteria on achieving sustainability in the selection of subcontractors and suppliers in the Dutch infrastructure sector

The rapidly growing infrastructure sector has a detrimental effect on climate change. The infrastructure sector is responsible for approximately 10% of worldwide emissions. <br/>In the past years, sustainability became more important in the procurement of infrastructure projects. One of the ways to implement sustainability in infrastructure...

An effective risk allocation through strategic contracting in EPC projects: Network risk allocation between EPC contractor and subcontractors

Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) projects have become an internationally popular model for construction projects, where large risks are bore by the EPC contractor and the subcontractors [Galloway, 2009; Guo et al., 2010]. Risks are inherent to all construction projects, however, the high uncertainties of the international EPC...

Adaptive Subcontractor Management

Many large engineering projects continue to face late completion dates, budget overruns and technical difficulties. This problem is becoming increasingly relevant as the boundaries of organisation are shifting through companies’ increasing usage of outsourcing. Although offering many advantages, this working model of outsourcing also poses new...

Fourteen processes defining competitive advantage of Brazilian trade contractors

Brazilian Trade Contractors (TC), or Subcontractors and Specialty Contractors, are main players in the Brazilian Building Industry competitiveness. They are part of a highly fragmentized and informal chain, with a great diversity in their value propositions and in their organizational forms. Nonetheless, despite their heterogeneity, most of them...

Subcontractor selection based on data envelopment analysis

In today’s construction market, subcontractors execute significant portions of construction work. Subcontractors lessen resource requirements faced by general contractors and provide specialized expertise to construction projects. The reliance of general contractors on subcontractors to execute major portions of construction work makes the...