Discovering the Potential of Risk-based Critical Chain Project Management in the Maritime Industry

There is a never-ending quest to search for better ways of planning and controlling projects. Currently the majority of all projects are planned with the critical path method and controlled using earned value management. This way of planning and controlling projects has been used for decades now and can be seen as traditional project management ...

Towards a Data Envelopment Analysis Approach for the Front-End Development of Renewable Energy Projects in the Netherlands

This paper suggests a novel perspective on project management and it’s value. Project management is widely accepted as a relevant perspecti’ve on the development of large engineering projects. Over time it proved its value and through incremental improvement has developed further. Although often applied for the development of projects project...

Project Strategy Generation and Visualization Assistant for Schedule Delays: Integrating Evolutionary Algorithm in Lean + BIM Approaches

Projects in the Complex Engineer-to-order (ETO) sector are subjected to frequent schedule delays caused by engineering changes, supply chain delays and fabrication delays. Project organizations are faced with the challenge of realigning the project duration within the pre-determined time. Schedule delays often lead to 3-5% rise in project cost....

Uncertainty-based project planning

Many projects executed within organizations fail due to budget and time overruns. The goals for time and budget are often related to the planning of a project. However, due to unforeseen factors the execution often deviates from the initial project planning. These unforeseen factors can be led back to the extent to which a project is susceptible...

Appreciation of project management by planning under uncertainties in a high-tech company

In the current era of cut-throat competition, companies carry out projects to support its business. However, studies show that these projects fail to provide the expected results. This is due to the fast-changing environment where the project is set-in. The planning of the projects is influenced by the presence of these uncertainties and hence,...

Evaluating the effects of planning decisions in repetitive construction projects using a discrete-event model

Repetitive construction projects allow for planning to be done systematically, but performance is hard to predict due to inherent uncertainties. The goal of this research is to evaluate planning choices in repetitive construction projects. In order to evaluate the planning of these projects to quantify the risk of overruns, an adaptable...

PROMIS: Een projectmanagement informatiestructuur

The Hydraulics division (WT) in The Hague, part of het Delta department, consists of 5 production-departments that execute the so-called "advising-proces" , i .e. they support the Deltaworks by supervising and carrying out technica1 studies. Today their planning and accounting system (PLAC) is mainly a partial and uniform time-accounting- system...

Towards data-driven project planning: Exploring the possibilities of generation and implementation of throughput times based on data analysis

The goal of this research is to create a design for a method to enable the generation and implementation of evidence-based throughput times in the planning process of the construction industry. The current planning process and the generation and collection of throughput times relies heavily on experience-based information. Generating throughput...

Effect of stochastic material properties on the structural response of laminated composite materials: following the building block approach

This report, which from now and onwards will be called the main body of the thesis, covers the core of the<br/>problem that has to be solved. Generally, the aim of this thesis is to investigate a laminated composite’s<br/>structural response, made of FRP, when its material properties are assumed stochastic instead of<br/>deterministic. The...