Analyzing the collaboration tools used in the Dutch Bouwteam contract form and comparing it with similar international integrated contract forms of Finland and UK

It is a well-known fact that the construction industry operates under high levels of complexity and uncertainty, which gives rise to challenges such as ineffective communication, lack of trust, insufficient support from the higher management, etc. Collaboration has demonstrated to be a solution to all these problems. In order to stimulate...

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...

Circular Economy within Integrated Contracts: A Delphi study into the contractor’s perspective on how circularity is and should be embedded in official tender documents of infrastructural projects

Circular Economy (CE) is proposed as an solution to the problems the world is facing concerning global warming and resource scarcity. The construction industry however struggles with the new concept of CE. Practitioners lack knowledge, experience and examples. Therefore, embedding circularity in the contract may work as a stimulation. The...

A study into contract strategies based on existing moveable bridge projects: The influence of project parameters and client characteristics on construction contracting.

Currently there are a lot of contract types available for building projects. It is not always clear beforehand what type of contract a client should choose for his project. The goal of this study is to solve this problem by advising clients which type of contract to use for moveable bridge projects. Therefore, the following research question...

Is it faster and is that Measurable: A Quantitative Research Into the Time Effects of Integrated Contract Forms in Development Processes

Orchestrate or Improvise: How to Conduct a DBFMO Design Competition?

In new integrated contracts such as the DBFMO, the Rijksvastgoedbedrijf (Dutch Government Building Agency) tries to publicly tender the full life-cycle responsibility of the Design, Build, Finance, Maintenance & Operate to a single party. In order to convey all terms of the DBFMO contract, an initiating subscriber looks for other disciplines (e...

Is it faster and is that measurable? A quantitative research into the time effects of integrated contract forms in the development process

Integrated contract forms are seen as a solution to various problems in the construction industry. Some studies found that building projects delivered with integrated contract forms show better performances on time, cost and quality. Other studies state that projects developed with integrated contract forms do not perform better on time, cost or...

The role of the architect in integrated contracts for social housing renovations in the Netherlands

The use of integrated contracts in the Dutch construction sector has increased in recent years. Integrated contracts presume facilitating a much more effective process than traditional delivery methods leading to reduced cost and time and higher quality. In first instance this type of contracts was only used for large and complex infrastructure...

Integrated project delivery: The designer as integrator

Process innovation related to integrated project delivery is an important topic in the building industry. Studies on process innovation through the use of integrated contracts usually focus on contractors, and particularly on the possibility of forward integration into the building process. Three years ago, the first author investigated the...

Fair competition: How to apply the ‘Economically Most Advantageous Tender’ (EMAT) award mechanism in the Dutch construction industry

The research presented in the thesis contains a part of the ongoing effort to improve the situation of the Dutch construction sector. For at least the last decade, a number of measures known as integrated contracting has been heralded as the solution for many problems in the Dutch construction industry. One of the main reasons for integrated...