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- Bröchner, Jan, 1948, et al.
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Guest editor note
- 2019
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Ingår i: Facilities. - 0263-2772. ; 37:9-10, s. 526-526
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Sporrong, Josefin, 1973, et al.
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Public procurement of architecttural and engineering services: Fee and quality
- 2009
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Ingår i: Managing it in Construction/Managing Construction for Tomorrow. - : CRC Press. - 9781482266665 ; , s. 683-688
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Consulting services can be very complex, which makes the evaluation process difficult, especially the assessment of multiple criteria used when selecting providers. The purpose of the paper is to investigate current Swedish practice among public clients procuring architectural and engineering services, in particular how they use other criteria than price when awarding contracts. Five large public clientsas well as architects and engineering consultants have been interviewed. Documented award routines have been analysed. Major public clients are found to have developed detailed selection procedures. Award practices among clients may affect the strategies of consulting firms. The study shows that consultants perceive public sector award practices as objective, although tending to exaggerate the price factor. As public clients increasingly become aware of the importance of using selection procedures that are adaptedto the specific service to be procured, the development of more effective frameworks for evaluating consultants is an obvious need.
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- Nyström, Johan, 1981, et al.
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Design-Build, innovation, and competition: The role of smaller contractors
- 2017
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the International Conference on Construction and Real Estate Management 2017. - Reston, VA : American Society of Civil Engineers. - 9780784481080 ; , s. 11-18
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Design-build (DB) contracting can be used to promote innovation in the infrastructure sector. Alongside innovation, public clients often wish to encourage competition. At a first glance, these two ambitions could be conflicting. More risk on the contractors stemming from DB might not appeal to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as they, ceteris paribus, have a risk disadvantage compared to larger firms. The research question is how more DB contracting will affect competition from a SME perspective. A simple model is provided to show how DBB stimulates competition and DB encourages innovation. Supported by semi-structured SME interviews from Sweden, it is discussed how the hybrid version of a controlled DB contract is inferior to alternative contract designs. The controlled DB contract does not stimulate competition nor provide incentives for innovation
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- Holmén, Magnus, 1967, et al.
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Integrating contractor and property developer for product system innovations
- 2017
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Ingår i: Facilities. - Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 0263-2772 .- 1758-7131. ; 35:9-10, s. 511-524
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: The aim of this paper is to explain why construction groups facing opportunities for product system innovations, such as green buildings, may choose to integrate construction and property development, taking on facilities management (FM) for a limited period.Design/methodology/approach: Conceptual analysis based on prior literature and illustrated by a single case of integration.Findings: For product system innovations, an in-house developer should be more able to reduce uncertainty than independent developers, due to unobservable long-term technological quality for customers, because the property becomes associated with lower risk after having been owned and operated. Alternatives such as building certification systems support incremental innovations, warranties suffer from double moral hazard in the long run and risk allocation in public–private partnership projects often fails to encourage system innovations. Integration allows the contractor to work continuously with innovative projects, developing new capabilities, which allow the firm to signal proficiency to the market, employees and the investment community.Research limitations/implications: The phenomenon is new, and further empirical surveys are needed to confirm the hypothetical conclusions drawn here.Practical implications: The value of close collaboration between those who develop innovative green building technologies and facilities managers is outlined.Originality/value: The relation between the scope of corporate activities in construction groups, technological innovations and FM has not been studied before.
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- Bröchner, Jan, 1948
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Coordination in slowly emerging service ecosystems: Construction history
- 2016
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Ingår i: Revue Europeenne d' Economie et Management des Services. - 2497-0107. ; 2:2, s. 17-41
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose here is to map long-term structural changes in construction ecosystems and to trace the historical forces leading to these changes. Input/output statistics reveal a growing importance of professional services for the construction industry. Ecosystem change appears as originating primarily with government customers, who are more able to effect institutional change. Over time, customers have retreated from coordinating multiple providers of increasingly specialized services.
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- Bröchner, Jan, 1948, et al.
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Shaping tomorrow’s facilities management
- 2019
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Ingår i: Facilities. - 0263-2772. ; 37:7-8, s. 366-380
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: Against the background of earlier publications on the future of facilities management (FM) and acknowledging digitalization and sustainability as two major shaping forces, the purpose of this paper is to place contributions to the special issue in the perspective of current opportunities for FM research. Design/methodology/approach: After a review of publications since the 1980s, dealing with the future of FM, there is an analysis of how the forces of digitalization and sustainability have emerged over five decades. The articles of this special issue are introduced against this background. Opportunities for future FM research are identified, and the relation between research, education and practice is discussed. Findings: Megatrends outlined in the 1980s still shape how FM develops. Digitalization supports sustainability not only through workplace change and building design but also through performance measurement, certification schemes and an awareness of the wider urban context. Research limitations/implications: Opportunities for FM research are created by digitalization and concerns with sustainability, combining environmental and social aspects. Relations between organizations studied in an FM context are important. Within organizations, employee issues and risk management are emphasized. Practical implications: Policies and schemes for sustainable buildings should be linked to sustainable FM more clearly. The relation between research, education and practice needs to be consolidated as a basis for research and development, as illustrated by a number of studies belonging to this special issue. To reach the goals of sustainable development, we need to develop the knowledge and theoretical frameworks that can be applied to and used by practice. The recent ISO FM definition appears as narrow and should be extended to recognize facilities’ life-cycle issues as well as broader urban and social concerns. Originality/value: This paper highlights the importance of basing FM research on an understanding of the fundamental forces that shape change.
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- Bröchner, Jan, 1948, et al.
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Construction productivity measures for innovation projects
- 2012
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Ingår i: Journal of Construction Engineering and Management - ASCE. - 1943-7862 .- 0733-9364. ; 138:5, s. 670-677
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A 30-year retrospective analysis of resource use in a range of new construction and repair projects reveals insignificant productivity increase when applying traditional narrow measures, as shown in a case study of beam bridges. It appears as necessary to estimate hidden quality changes in both outputs and inputs. Changes in government regulations, in specifications, and the development of nonprice criteria for contract award emerge as important. Schemes for benchmarking the performance of construction projects as well as life-cycle analyses suggest that customer risk aversion and effects on customer productivity should be taken into account. The outcome is a set of measurements that can be applied to the selection of any type of proposed new construction or repair technology innovation according to their potential impact on industry productivity.
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- Bröchner, Jan, 1948
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New output quality indicators in construction productivity measurement
- 2011
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Ingår i: MISBE2011 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Management and Innovation for a Sustainable Built Environment, Amsterdam 19-23 June 2011, eds J.W.F. Wamelink, R.P. Geraedts and L. Volker.. - 9789052693958
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Productivity increase in the construction industry is often seen as low. Construction innovation projects could be prioritized partly based on expected contribution to industry productivity. Quality change in construction outputs and inputs is crucial. The purpose is to explore new output quality indicators. The analysis draws upon life cycle analyses for facilities, project benchmarking schemes and environmental assessment systems. Disruption of client core activities due to technology and method choice in construction projects should be taken into account, and also the willingness of clients to pay for risk reduction. The result is a set of output measures. Primary output is identified as ‘useful area’. Secondary output measures, with estimates provided by expert panels, would include effects on future energy consumption, effects on other future operations and maintenance resource needs, effects on client/user disruption, reduction of client/user risk during operation and maintenance, user comfort, architectural quality, and external societal effects. However, it would not be feasible or even desirable to collect a wider range of data routinely for the production of official statistics at the industry level.
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