Cole, B K (2012) Building social infrastructure through public-private partnerships: The case of student housing in public higher education. PhD thesis, Clemson University, USA.
Abstract
Evaluations of Public-Private Partnership arrangements as alternatives to traditional government procurement methods for the delivery of public infrastructure projects have been anecdotal at best. This paper proposes a framework to evaluate a public university's infrastructure asset management performance and a specific measure based on a new concept of the elapsed time required for services to be delivered (i.e., Project Completion Time). The results suggest that the choice to use a public-private partnership as a project delivery method for student housing at a public university can dramatically shorten the overall schedule. This research will serve as the foundation for future quantitative research on the relationship between PPPs and the performance of various types of public projects.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Thesis advisor: | Worzala, E |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | education; higher education; procurement method; asset management; delivery method; government; infrastructure project; partnership; project delivery; public infrastructure; public-private partnership; quantitative research |
| Index terms: | student housing, infrastructure project, public university, project delivery, procurement method, quantitative research, public infrastructure, delivery method, partnership, higher education, government procurement, public project, completion time, infrastructure asset management, asset management |
| Subjects: | educational institutions, partnership management, delivery method, project controls, infrastructure and transport systems, procurement strategy, project delivery, data analysis and analytics, asset management, infrastructure engineering, contractual arrangements, construction type |
| Topics: | Research Practice, Business Strategy, Construction Technology, Stakeholder Management, Time Control, Engineering Principles, Procurement, Education |
| Descriptive scope: | 3 PCA |
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