Sustainability within the procurement and tendering process of infrastructural projects
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2023-07-07
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Although the importance of sustainability in infrastructural projects is growing, do those projects still have negative environmental impacts. The negative impact is acknowledged by the participants of the projects. However, in the procurement is mostly steered on the reduction of CO2 emissions, what not implicates a holistic approach. In order to create sustainable projects must sustainability be completely embedded in the process and not ‘added’ on later. Using sustainable award criteria works for steering towards a sustainable infrastructure construction sector. The public party show their ambition this way and for market parties it is an incentive to create more sustainable plans. Other parties will act, get motivated and invest by knowing that public parties find it important. Furthermore, it is important to make visions and ambitions concrete in order to operationalize them in project and steer towards reaching the sustainable goals. For project team members changing their workways and developing more sustainable projects still feels like an extra workload. The sustainable transition and trying new things includes costs since sustainable materials and workways still not benefit from the economy of scale. Sustainability can also request different cost phasing than regular projects where the organizational system must be ready for.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen