Risk areas versus critical success factors in public-private partnership construction project agreements

Gh R. Heravi, S. Alkass

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Abstract

Public-Private Partnership is a contractual agreement where long term investment is involved and includes financing, design, construction, operation and asset management. This type of agreement is associated with many risk areas and critical success factors that need to be addressed. The literature shows that most of research works related to Public-Private Partnership discuss risks in isolation of the critical success factors. This paper presents a study on Public-Private Partnership system concentrating in particular on risk areas and critical success factors related to construction projects delivered with this system. Risk areas and critical success factors are identified and examined in order to establish the relationship between these two areas of concern to parties involved in Public-Private Partnership contractual agreements. Based on the types of relationships between risk areas and critical success factors as well as project success components which are affected by these two points of view an exhaustive risk breakdown structure for Public-Private Partnership construction projects which don't have unnecessary risk details is developed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCanadian Society for Civil Engineering - Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering 2008 - "Partnership for Innovation"
Pages500-509
Number of pages10
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
EventAnnual Conference of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering 2008 - "Partnership for Innovation" - Quebec City, QC, Canada
Duration: Jun 10 2008Jun 13 2008

Publication series

NameProceedings, Annual Conference - Canadian Society for Civil Engineering
Volume1

Conference

ConferenceAnnual Conference of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering 2008 - "Partnership for Innovation"
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityQuebec City, QC
Period6/10/086/13/08

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Engineering(all)

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