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...

The Interplay between the Contract Type and the Management of Cost Groups: Exploring the relationship between the contract type and the management of cost groups in Dutch national infrastructure projects

Construction projects are argued to be the most complex of all production undertakings (Baccarini, 1996). Williams (2002, 2005) states that the complexity of these projects is a contributing factor to project failures, such as cost overrun, which are commonly seen in infrastructure project (Cantarelli, Molin, Van Wee, & Flyvbjerg, 2012). As...

Modelling the Cost Performance of a Given Logistics Network Operating Under Regular and Irregular Conditions

This paper develops an analytical model for the assessment of the cost performance of a given logistics network operating under regular and irregular (disruptive) conditions. In addition, the paper aims to carry out a sensitivity analysis of this cost with respect to changes of the most influencing factors. In particular, this is expected to...