Abstract: Insurance policies are a fundamental risk management tool for the housing market. Climate change and extreme events together with a growing urbanization are increasing the relevance and need for insurance. Every year the ...

Abstract: The renewal of urban housing is a major challenge for urban policy makers in the quest for more livable, resource-efficient, and socially inclusive cities. However, the policy-making process involving urban renewal is ...

Abstract: Private sector involvement in road concessions has been one of the main options for governments to engage in large-scale road development plans. Political interference, optimism bias in demand forecasts and the absence of ...

Abstract: Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are an innovative procurement model that appeared as an alternative to traditional methods such as public work contracts. The public sector comparator (PSC) allows decision-makers to ...

Abstract: The worldwide development of health care infrastructures and services has been increasingly founded on public-private partnerships (PPPs). Led by the benefits of this procurement model, governments felt tempted to engage ...

Abstract: Renegotiations are becoming an undesirable protagonist in infrastructure concessions, raising doubts about the merit of this procurement model. Renegotiations emerge as a consequence of contract incompleteness. When contracts ...

Abstract: Urban rehabilitation has long been a major concern for academics, practitioners, and public authorities. The decline cycle of city centers in many countries, particularly in Europe and the United States, involves deteriorating ...

Abstract: Renegotiations are frequently perceived as the Achilles’ heel of concessions. After two decades of concessions development, empirical evidence suggests a recurrent need to renegotiate contracts. What drives renegotiation? ...

Abstract: Infrastructure project delivery is a central topic in construction and project management. Time overruns are a critical dimension of successful project delivery. A significant body of knowledge exists regarding the ...

Abstract: Given the poor thermal comfort provided in many buildings, solutions have been sought that ally lower energy costs with a contribution to greater sustainability. Of these solutions, the thermal retrofitting of the outer ...