Built Environment Project and Asset Management: Volume 14 Issue 1

Guest editorial: Public private partnerships: past, present and future

Boeing Laishram, Ganesh Devkar, Yongjian Ke, Ahmed Abdel Aziz

Making sense of the definition of public-private partnerships

Yongjian Ke, Zhe Cheng, Jingxiao Zhang, Yong Liu

Despite the widespread study and application of public-private partnerships (PPPs) since the 1980s, the field lacks a universally accepted definition that captures the concept's…

Impact of transparency law on the post-award development phase of Toll and Annuity PPPs

Mojahedul Islam Nayyer, Mukkai R. Aravindan, Thillai Rajan Annamalai

Involvement of lenders for PPP highway projects in India starts after the bid award. The post-award development phase of Toll and Annuity PPPs differ significantly in terms of…

Procuring authorities and project performance: a case study of PPP highway projects in India

Mojahedul Islam Nayyer, Thillai Rajan Annamalai

Public-private partnership (PPP) highway projects in India are undertaken at both state and national levels, such that differences exist in how the procuring authorities manage…

Crisis management in public–private partnerships: lessons from the global crises in the XXI century

Gabriel Castelblanco, Jose Guevara, Alberto De Marco

Global crises have become increasingly recurrent events that jeopardize public-private partnerships (PPPs). In this context, the purpose of this paper is to expose the PPP-crisis…

Investigating risk of public–private partnerships (PPPs) for smart transportation infrastructure project development

Tiep Nguyen, Leonie Hallo, Indra Gunawan

The purpose of this paper is to rank critical risks and determine major categories of risks to be considered by public–private partnerships (PPPs) investors when investing in…

Benefits, enablers and barriers in deploying PPP when developing smart infrastructure in non-urban areas

Nimesha Sahani Jayasena, Daniel W.M. Chan, Mohan Kumaraswamy

The widespread lockdown restrictions brought by the global COVID-19 epidemic inculcated a culture of “work-from-home”. However, most rural areas lack reliable and effective…

A review of circular economy models and success factors on public-private partnership infrastructure development

Isaac Akomea-Frimpong, Xiaohua Jin, Robert Osei Kyei, Portia Atswei Tetteh, Roksana Jahan Tumpa, Joshua Nsiah Addo Ofori, Fatemeh Pariafsai

The application of circular economy (CE) has received wide coverage in the built environment, including public-private partnership (PPP) infrastructure projects, in recent times…