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Asset management, co-makership and performance-based business models for FRP bridges. Dr. Rizal Sebastian TNO , The Netherlands April 2013. Content. Need for a new business model for FRP bridges Asset management and co-markership concepts Market opportunities and challenges
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Asset management, co-makership and performance-based business models for FRP bridges Dr. Rizal Sebastian TNO, The Netherlands April 2013
Content • Need for a new business model for FRP bridges • Asset management and co-markership concepts • Market opportunities and challenges • Actual practice and lessons-learned • Conclusions and discussions
Need for a new business model • Common characteristics of traditional construction projects: • One-off and client-driven: A single project is set up when the client asks for it, and the contractor executes it accordingly. • Fragmented value-chain: Each actor in the value-chain only delivers a particular product or service in a short-term collaboration. • Inevitable need for change regarding FRP bridge projects due to: • Volume-based production and serial industrialisation. • Product lifecycle services and quality assurance. • Long-term collaboration of value-chain actors in multiple projects.
Need for a new business model Inevitable shifts: • From client-driven / one-off project to market-driven / industrialised project. • From single-project oriented goals to total asset management goals. • From project-based collaboration to value-chain integration.
Market opportunities and challenges • TO DO model to define client’s and contractor’s market strategy • Results from Trans-IND market survey in the EU: • Opportunities: Growth of FRP in infrastructure; Design-Build-Maintain (DBM) tenders. • Challenges: Rising FRP price; clients are unfamiliar with FRP; lack of standardisation.
Market opportunities and challenges • Trend: Market-oriented strategy adopted by public clients in the EU. • Objective: Mobility performance over time; infrastructure network instead of single projects. • Development: Integrated products; total service/value over a series of projects. • Opportunity: Lifecycle (long-term) contracts based on performance and innovation.
Conceptual business models • Concept of asset management in civil infrastructure sector: • Value-chain strategy being adopted by public clients in Europe. • Focus on the civil infrastructure network instead of single projects. • Goal achievement based on mobility performance over time. • Concept of co-makership in civil infrastructure projects: • Value-chain strategy being adopted by industrial construction firms. • Focus on integrated product development and whole-life component supply. • Goal achievement based on total service / value over a series of projects. • Concept of performance-based project delivery: • ‘Lifecycle performance’ instead of ‘lowest price to construct’. • The client sets the functional requirements. • The contractor proposes the innovative design to construct, maintain, operate.
Applications in real cases Asset management programme of public authorities: • PIM programme (2005-2010): involving governments and companies in UK, NL, BE with pilot projects on highways, waterways, and Service Provider Contract model. • Pilot projects of FRP in railway sector by the UK Network Rail: 30 FRP strengthening, 4 new-built bridges and aqueducts. • Developments of monitoring systems and protocols in asset management.
Applications in real cases Co-markership of FRP bridges: • Full FRP co-makerships and hybrid (e.g. steel and FRP) co-makerships. • Co-makership between main contractor and material suppliers. • Co-makership between system manufacturer and component developers. • Co-makership for the purposes of re-use and recycling.
Key players in co-markership Example of collaboration between public clients, private companies, and knowledge institutes: CUR96 working group in the Netherlands. (Ref: Keynote speech by Dr. Ane de Boer from the Netherlands Ministry of Infrastructure at CECOM2012)
Conclusions and discussions • A new business model for value-chain integration is needed for the large-scale market uptake of FRP bridges. • Asset management and co-makership concepts are viable for public clients and construction industries respectively. • Demonstration and pilot projects have taken place, but a widespread practice is still lacking. • Conducive regulatory framework for integrated procurement and adequate standardisation are needed for the new business model.
Contact Dr. Rizal Sebastian Senior Research Scientist TNO – Technical Sciences Expertise Centre of Building and Civil Engineering Delft, The Netherlands rizal.sebastian@tno.nl