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Johan Ninan

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From Silos to Synergy

Conceptualizing an integrated infrastructure design for climate resilience in Rotterdam

In recent years, municipalities have been recognised for their crucial role in protecting cities from climate change impacts by adopting mitigative and adaptive strategies to enhance climate resilience. However, anchoring these strategies demands multiple interventions, which are ...

Betontransitie geanalyseerd

Van concept naar realiteit: een meerlagige analyse

In de ambitie de uitstoot van broeikasgassen te verminderen is een centrale rol weggelegd voor groen beton, met een aanzienlijk kleinere CO2-voetafdruk dan gewoon beton [1]. Om een sectorbrede overstap naar dit materiaal mogelijk te maken, moeten economische, institutionele, soci ...
Studies of projects, project-based organisations and project organising have reached a pivotal juncture, marked by an increasing need to innovate methodologically. Project research has traditionally been dominated by survey-based quantitative approaches aimed at measuring variabl ...

Migrating knowledge

Textile repair and building renovation abilities that migrants bring to the Netherlands.

Migration is a defining feature of today’s world, shaping economies, cultures, and communities. In sectors such as construction renovation and textile repair, migrant workers contribute to sustainability practices, providing jobs that in the destination countries, citizens do not ...
Enhancing sustainability in construction is a challenging endeavour, as it requires close collaboration among multiple stakeholders within a turbulent environment. This challenge is further complicated by the existing power dynamics among these stakeholders. This study aims to ex ...

Social media buzz

What matters to people around PPP and non-PPP infrastructure projects?

Infrastructure projects are undertaken as public–private partnership (PPP) projects to increase the capacity for delivering multiple projects and to bring in the expertise of the private sector. There is a need to investigate whether the community perception of an infrastructure ...

Project Delivery Strategies for Adaptable Buildings

A Comparative Case Study of Two Dutch Modular Projects

In the face of climate urgency and rapid urban change, buildings must become more adaptable to extend their lifespan and reduce environmental impact. Yet, adaptability is often undermined by project delivery methods (PDMs) that are not well equipped to manage, plan, and deliver l ...
The construction sector remains one of the most inefficient and unsustainable industries, due in part to the chronic failure to learn from past projects. Within infrastructure contracting, learning is further hampered by project isolation, staff shortages, and commercial pressure ...

Cultural Embedding Through Social Media

Case Studies of Community Engagement in Four Megaprojects in India

Community engagement is pivotal for the success of infrastructure megaprojects, especially in the operations phase, where the community evaluates whether to use the service or boycott it. There is a need to understand what actions projects take for the cultural embedding of the p ...

Safetywashing

The Strategic Use of Safety in the Construction Industry

In this article, we discuss the concept of safetywashing defined as the strategic practice of promoting, marketing, and branding of safety practices without full disclosure of negative information to improve the image of the organization. The research seeks to answer two question ...

Online Firestorms in Twitter

Exploring Risks to Large Infrastructure Projects from Digital Communities

Large infrastructure projects can often cause disruptions with those outside the immediate project area experiencing negative effects. Twitter (now X) and its ensuing online firestorms are ways these project community make themselves heard and influence the project and its societ ...

Actor-networks in sustainable transport transformation

The case of the Catharijnesingel restoration

As cities evolve, navigating the complex interplay between social and technical elements is crucial for achieving sustainable urban development. This paper uses a case-study approach and applies actor-network theory (ANT) to understand the sociotechnical complexities of urban tra ...
Infrastructure projects undergo multiple changes throughout their lifecycle, adapting to new mobilities, technologies and environments. We build on the System of Systems (SoS) theoretical concept to understand the implications of such infrastructure transformations, specifically ...

Good Governance, Strong Trust

Building Community Among an Australian City Rebuilding Project

In this article, co-authors Johan Ninan, Stewart Clegg, Ashwin Mahalingam, and Shankar Sankaran reflect on their research interests and the inspiration behind their recent article, “Governance Through Trust: Community Engagement in an Australian City Rebuilding Precinct,” found i ...

Managing stakeholders for implementing innovations

The case of a flood protection project in Kenya

Innovative projects, such as those for flood protection in developing countries, are urgent, stakeholder intense, and need to be carried out even in contexts where sufficient governance frameworks are not in place. This research seeks to understand how innovative projects can be ...

Reimagining Infrastructure Megaproject Delivery

An Australia—New Zealand Perspective

Infrastructure megaprojects are increasing in size and number worldwide. Widespread shortcomings such as cost overruns, delays, litigious threats, and community opposition are now so pervasive there is a clear mandate to rethink the way we plan, deliver, and operate our infrastru ...
The concept of governmentality has proven useful to analyse how the reflexive management of people within and without the project is conducted. In this chapter we explore the organizational theory of governmentality and its importance in project settings. First, we identify the s ...
This book is a novel contribution to a field dominated by conventional approaches to project management; it is about narratives in megaprojects. Among the questions examined in this original new book are: What are narratives? Why are they important in megaprojects? How are they f ...
Megaprojects combine multiple external stakeholders, and a common narrative is essential to drive the project among often conflicting objectives. The research project considers the single in-depth qualitative case study of the High Speed Two (HS2) megaproject in the UK to explore ...