Risk Allocation in DBFM Projects: Providing Practical Guidance in the Risk Allocation Process of DBFM Projects

The risk allocation in DBFM projects is currently a hot topic, whereby multiple contractors have withdrawn from the procurement of these projects. This research provides a practical guidance in the risk allocation process of DBFM projects, consisting of design principles of literature and lessons learned from practice. The design principles that...

Flexibility in PPP contracts: Dealing with potential change in the pre-contract phase of a construction project

Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) cover a range of possible relationships between public and private parties. PPP contracts are typically used in contexts of great uncertainty, such as large construction and infrastructure projects that are realized over a longer period of time. Hence, a major challenge in PPPs is to keep construction...

Integral Risk Management for DBFM Tenders and Contracts in the Netherlands

This paper presents an overview of an integral risk management approach with emphasis on the relationships with the costing and scheduling processes. Forms of uncertainty related to project planning are classified and implemented in the probabilistic costing and scheduling processes. Furthermore, the importance of the integral probabilistic...

Integral Risk Management for DBFM Tenders and Contracts in the Netherlands

This paper presents an overview of an integral risk management approach with emphasis on the relationships with the costing and scheduling processes. Forms of uncertainty related to project planning are classified and implemented in the probabilistic costing and scheduling processes. Furthermore, the importance of the integral probabilistic...

Effectieve informatie-uitwisseling binnen Nederlandse DBFM weginfrastructuurprojecten

Since ten years contractors receive another question of public clients (government, local authorities) in the Dutch Civil Engineering sector. This question is in the form of integrated contracts, in which design, construction and/or maintenance are clustered. In projects contracted with the contract form Design (D), Built (B), Finance (F) and...

Establishing Preconditions for Life Cycle Costing in Dutch DBFM Road Projects

Historically, the Dutch public road authority (Rijkswaterstaat) had the responsibility for initiation, design, built, finance, operation and maintenance of road infrastructure projects. Fairly recently, integral DBFM) contracts have been introduced to road infrastructure. In a DBFM contract, a private party is responsible for Designing, Building...

Flexibility of the DBFM contract: Research into flexibility of DBFM contracts for transportation infrastructure

Recently, in the construction industry a shift is taking place from conventional contracts models, in which the client has the responsibility for the (re)design of an asset, to integrated contract models in which the role of the client is much more limited. Further, in integrated models for road infrastructure, projects are contracted for the...

Combining Early Contractor Involvement and Availability-Based Contracting in Complex Infrastructure Projects

Towards a better incorporation of maintenance into DB(F)M Projects: Supporting the contractor in the tender-, design and construction phase by a role structure design

Design, Build & Maintain- (DBM), and Design, Build, Finance & Maintain contracts (DBFM) are increasingly applied in the Dutch civil engineering industry. These project delivery methods have in common that the private party is made responsible for the aspects design, build and maintenance. By integrating these three aspects, client organisations...

Private financing for infrastructural projects in the Netherlands: Added value or illusion?

This thesis focuses on Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) for infrastructural projects, in which PPPs entail Design Build Finance Maintain (and Operate), or DBFM(O) contracts. The main differences of such contracts with more traditional contracts is the establishment of a project-specific Special Purpose Company (SPC), the need for external...

Samen verder?: De Public Private Comparator op decentraal niveau

This research examines the efforts of the Public Private Comparator (PPC) at the decentralized level in the Netherlands. The PPC is a financial-economic assessment tool that can be used before a tender to determine whether there is a surplus value for a specific project (real estate or infrastructure) in the form of a Public Private Partnership...

DBFM(O) bij scholen: Perspectief; luchtkasteel of schoolgebouw

In dit onderzoek is bekeken of een langdurige contractrelatie van een DBFM(O) geschikt is voor het ontwikkelen van scholen en of het antwoord geeft op de problemen van onderwijshuisvesting.