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Projects as drivers of sustainability: How the adoption of the reuse principle affects the front-end of a construction project
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• The study addresses the identified gaps in the project organizing, transition and circular economy (CE) literatures. • The case study is a construction project that aims at detaching and reusing precast concrete elements. • When project applies CE's reuse principle, the project actor collaborate more closely and take broader and different roles in the project front-end. • The application of reuse in construction projects can be viewed in the larger context of sustainability transitions and multi-level perspective (MLP) should be applied to understand the mechanisms affecting the wider adoption of reuse. • New types of value creation potential as well as barriers to it emerge when reuse principle is applied. Project research has long considered sustainability, but more knowledge is needed about how projects can drive the sustainability transition. In the context of project business, the circular economy (CE) principle of reuse displays considerable potential for reducing resource usage. The front-end of a project is a critical phase as the value potential of the project depends on how project actors commit to its objectives, such as sustainability. In this study, we elaborate on how value creation and actor roles are affected during the front-end of a demonstration project that applies the reuse principle in construction. We show that as a project applies this principle, project actors must assume different roles during the front-end and that new types of values emerge throu…
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“Conventional projects tend to lock the main solutions and options early on, already in the front-end (Winch, 1998; Rokio et al., 2024).”
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“Furthermore, Rokio et al., 2024 state the front-end phase as critical for committing to the sustainability value of the project.”
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- Authors
- Rokio, M., Ahola, T., Alkki, L., & Ståhle, M.
- Venue
- International Journal of Project Management
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2024-10
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 102647
- ISSN
- 0263-7863
- Cited by
- 21
- References
- 3
- Language
- en
- Licence
- Funders
- Horizon 2020
- European Union's Research and Innovation (ID 958200)
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