Abstract
This article identifies how project life cycle characteristics and automation and robotic technologies influence the sustainability of public-private partnership (PPP) infrastructure projects. The result of the article is a model of how public and private collaborations can leverage technology and project organization to make infrastructure more sustainable. Based on a comprehensive literature review, the model subdivides sustainability into engineering, project management, environmental, social, and economic dimensions. Engineering sustainability concerns the applicability of technologies to infrastructure PPP sustainability. The project management sustainability is decisive for ultimately creating environmental, social and economic sustainability within and beyond infrastructure PPP projects. The model identifies that the procurement phase is of particular importance for sustainable infrastructure PPPs. Successful sustainable infrastructure procurement likely includes such factors as increased transparency, participation, and stable, capable project alliances with a shared vision and clear goals. The model also identifies that, throughout the whole project life cycle, actions in the form of collaboration, experimentation and platformization promote sustainability. The findings in this article add to the understanding of how transformation toward increased sustainability can be achieved by individual organizations, their network, and ecosystems of public, private and civic actors.
Highlights
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This article aimed to analyze how the use of CAR in PPP projects can promote the transformation toward sustainable practices in public infrastructure
Summary
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Public-private partnership (PPP) projects have gained worldwide popularity as an innovative method to deliver infrastructure, such as transport, water, waste, power, social and government infrastructure [1]. A public sector client initiates PPP projects with the key objective to procure public services at high quality in relation to the associated costs, and the PPP literature refers to this as Value for Money (VfM) over the project life cycle. In long-term collaborations with private actors, the planning, funding, construction and operation of public assets and services are bundled together to increase efficiency and bridge financial gaps [2]. PPPs aim to improve project performances by using risk allocation mechanisms, knowledge and resources more efficiently
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