Towards sustainable and circular maintenance strategies for (existing) civil construction objects: Developing a tool to stimulate the integration of sustainability and circularity via collaboration throughout the maintenance stage in the Dutch context

On a general level, the Dutch government wants to have a fully circular economy by 2050 by reducing the use of primary materials and carbon dioxide emissions. As the consideration and integration of concepts such as sustainability and circular economy are becoming increasingly popular in the civil engineering sector, it might be time to re...

Outsourcing maintenance using PBMC: Introducing a decision-support method for performance based maintenance contracts

When it comes down to building or maintaining civil infrastructure commissioned by a governmental body, a lot has changed during the last couple of years. The government made a turn from all determining body, to a cooperative partner and later even to an organization that’s outsourcing most of the construction and maintenance work to second and...

Performance-based maintenance contracts for offshore wind farms: A decision-making flowchart to structure the sourcing process for the post-warranty O&M phase of offshore wind farms

The pioneers in the early 21th century who built the first big offshore wind farms now have to compete with the quickly improving renewable energy technologies and see their farm being out-dated (See also: Dvorak, 2013 & Wind Energy Update, 2013). At present, wind farm owners face difficult decisions when finding the right O&M contract...