Innovative approach to repetitive tasks: An exploratory research on exploiting the potential of repetitive tasks in the construction industry

Current societal and construction challenges, combined with limited time and the scarcity of people and resources, require solutions in the construction industry. This research focuses on repetitive tasks and contributes to that. Furthermore, this research is necessary because the literature on repetitive tasks is limited and needs to be...

Looking for the soft spot in “The Iron Triangle”: Explorative research into the effect of serious gaming on the level of empathy and the experienced client contractor collaboration of professionals in the construction industry

This master thesis addresses the challenge of project performance in the Civil Engineering (CE) sector, emphasizing the significance of collaboration, communication, and understanding among interdisciplinary project teams. Focusing on the role of empathy in contractor-client collaborations, the study investigates the potential impact of serious...

Improving the application of two-phase delivery: The Holy Grail?

This study aims to evaluate the effects of the two-phase delivery method, focusing specifically on its potential to address integrated project delivery challenges, and to propose improvements to the use of the delivery model. Using two Rijkswaterstaat-projects as a case study, the research question seeks to enhance the use of the two-phase...

Combining Logistics Resources between Urban Construction Projects: A cross-sectional study for the city of Amsterdam

Construction resource management in the Netherlands is causing environmental concerns due to a high demand for infrastructure maintenance and carbon/nitrogen emissions. Insufficient optimization of resource management between projects results in more traffic and higher energy demand, but measures such as linking projects, program management, and...

Buying with impact: Stimulating sustainable public procurement in the construction sector through collaborative practices

Public organisations are shifting their focus towards the implementation of sustainability into their projects through sustainable public procurement, but recent studies indicated that the implementation is still lacking. Sustainable public procurement is only implemented in around 10% of the Dutch public procurement tenders (Yu et al. 2020)....

The Importance Of The Empathic Ability Of Project Participants During The Preconstruction Phase To Construction Project Performance: Designing A Framework To Improve Project Performance Via Empathy

The aim of this research was to investigate if and how the project performance of integrated construction projects can be improved by focussing on empathy during the preconstruction phase. Big infrastructural construction projects often face a poor project performance which causes the sector is aimed at searching for strategies to deal with this...

Influence of collaboration on the management of BIM-based construction projects: An analysis of the perspectives of project team members

The AEC industry has shown a slower development when compared to other industries, this has aroused interest among researchers to help the industry achieve its objectives. As a result, one important contribution to the industry has been proven to be the encouragement of effective collaboration among project team members, which in fact, is...

Creating Cross Organisational Safety Management: Possibility of Public-Private Safety Collaboration

This research focusses on finding an answer to the question how can safety be improved in a public-private environment. By means of literature and a case study some improvement opportunities are identified, which pose promising opportunities for improving safety management. The research focused on one of the opportunities, a collaborative...

Collaboration in construction consortia: A client's perspective

The current construction market is segregated, under-performs and becomes more complex. Often leaving the client helpless when projects go wrong. Consortia arise to handle the complexity and segregation, while improved collaboration between contractors can raise performance, but do consortia solve these problems? This research examines whether...

An exploratory research into the application of the Value Added: The current application and possible optimisations of the Value Added in the Dutch construction industry