Improving Sustainability Performance for Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) Projects

Liyin Shen, Vivian W.Y. Tam, Lin Gan, Kunhui Ye and Zongnan Zhao
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Liyin Shen: School of Construction Management and Real Estate, and International Research Center for Sustainable Built Environment, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
Vivian W.Y. Tam: School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, Western Sydney University, Penrith NSW 2751; Australia
Lin Gan: School of Construction Management and Real Estate, and International Research Center for Sustainable Built Environment, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
Kunhui Ye: School of Construction Management and Real Estate, and International Research Center for Sustainable Built Environment, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
Zongnan Zhao: School of Construction Management and Real Estate, and International Research Center for Sustainable Built Environment, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China

Sustainability, 2016, vol. 8, issue 3, 1-15

Abstract: Improving sustainability performance in developing infrastructure projects is an important strategy for pursuing the mission of sustainable development. In recent years, the business model of public-private-partnership (PPP) is promoted as an effective approach in developing infrastructure projects. It is considered that the distribution of the contribution on project investment between private and public sectors is one of the key variables affecting sustainability performance of PPP-type projects. This paper examines the impacts of the contribution distribution between public and private sectors on project sustainability performance. A model named the sustainability performance-based evaluation model (SPbEM) is developed for assisting the assessment of the level of sustainability performance of PPP projects. The study examines the possibility of achieving better sustainability through proper arrangement of the investment distribution between the two primary sectors in developing PPP-type infrastructure projects.

Keywords: public-private-partnership; infrastructure project; sustainability performance; contribution; public and private sectors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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