The Osservanza: an integrated adaptive reuse project

Historical campuses enabled post-Age of Enlightenment organizations’ operations and allowed them to adapt with times, supporting their processes of adaptive reuse transformation throughout the institutions’ recursive managerial cycles. However, the radical reforms which concerned these organizations since the second half of the 20th century,...

Improving Decision-making on Carbon Capture and Storage in Energy-intensive Industries in the European Union

The development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in energy-intensive industries (EnIIs) in the EU is currently stalling while many recognize its importance for reducing CO2 emissions. The socio-technical system of CCS in EnIIs is characterized by resource interdependencies, conflicting interests and diverging perspectives on problems and...

Intra-organizational conflicting interests in infrastructure projects: A study at ProRail and other network operators

Many internal actors are involved in the execution of infrastructure projects at network operators. These actors share an organizational goal but also have individual interests that can be conflicting with each other. Intra-organizational conflicting interests are difficult to manage because among others the complexity of the network and...

Management of stakeholder driven scope changes in large structural adaptations of airport terminals

Introduction A large structural terminal adaptation is like most large engineering projects an enormous and complex task. A large airport deals with many stakeholders both internal and external who exert influence and could cause scope changes. The scope of a project is developed by requirements of the client and users. These stakeholders could...

Rijkswaterstaat: From Skilful Technical Specialist Towards Strategic Professional Procurer

Project management that really matters: Managing the unanticipated key moments in rail related infrastructure projects

Rail related infrastructure projects, like many projects, often fail to deliver within budget and time. The root cause of most failures however is not technical, but rather, managerial. The existing scientific literature reveals that the impact of unexpected events in the project is a major contributor to these overruns. There is not, however, a...

Building on tunnels: Suggestions to improve the decision making process

Dealing with Uncertainties in Rural Restructuring Projects: A comparison between theory and practice

Managing uncertainties in practice differs from the suggested uncertainty management approach in the (scientific) literature. Uncertainty managers are not aware of the many tools and techniques that are available to manage uncertainties in their projects. They deal with uncertainties in a rather implicit way with varying success. Furthermore it...

Succes and fail factors in sustainable real estate renovation projects

Sustainability remains an important issue for the construction industry. Yet, sustainable real estate developments are still considered as highly ambitious projects. To find out how and why sustainable renovation projects actually became sustainable we systematically evaluated 21 leading Dutch real estate renovation projects. In each project we...

The balance between "project" and "process": Management of complex spatial development projects

Managing spatial development projects projects is a challenge because they are technically complex, take place in a dynamic environment and many stakeholders are involved. To successfully manage these projects a combination of project management and process management is required. Main research question is: How can managers of spatial...

Designing organizational coordination