Public Private Partnership (PPP) means the long term co-operation between public and private sector. The central objective of PPP is to improve efficiency in realising public infrastructure. PPP-projects are characterised by an holistic life cycle approach, which includes one-stop planning,...

Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is one vehicle to gain access to private capital for real estate development needs. PPP is currently used in many economic sectors. In the public real estate sector, PPP is increasingly being used to deliver office accommodation to house government institutions,...

Real estate portfolios of private and public corporation are increasingly optimized concerning their using phase. By contrast private used properties such as detached houses or multifamily residences are often neglected already at the beginning of the useful life. One reason could be the absence...

The value of a commercial project development is strongly related to market cycles. Public real estate is virtually independent from market trends. To increase the value of public real estate, an efficient life cycle management provides the bases. In practice, the previously neglected...

Facing a worldwide growing market for Public Private Partnership projects on national and international level it is understood that there is an increasing need for interdisciplinary and intercultural competences in the teams developing the projects. As project teams are more and more globally...

The management of public buildings is very much on the way to change. As a step along the road Public Private Partnerships (PPP) function as a new procurement route in order to deliver public buildings in an efficient manner under life cycle aspects. The paper begins by a brief overview of the...

The paper aims at revealing why institutions like public-private partnership (PPP) Task Forces have an impact on the realisation ofPPP projects and the achievement of Value for Money in PPPs. The paper is based on a survey looking at PPP frameworks in the internationalcontext. The need for a...