Improving sustainability performance for public-private-partnership (PPP) projects

Liyin Shen, Vivian W. Y. Tam, Lin Gan, Kunhui Ye, Zongnan Zhao

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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.
Original languageEnglish
Article number289
Number of pages15
JournalSustainability
Volume8
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016

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© 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons by Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Keywords

  • infrastructure
  • public-private sector cooperation
  • sustainability

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