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3TU-CME Master’s Thesis Award for Jella Jongerius

Monday, 22 September 2014
Jella Jongerius (TUD) is the winner of the 3TU Construction Management and Engineering Master’s Thesis award 2014. On the 4th of September, jury chairman Rob Roef (Construsoft) awarded her at the 3TU CME kick-off day at the University of Delft with a cheque to the value of €1000,- .

Jella Jongerius (TUD) is the winner of the 3TU Construction Management and Engineering Master’s Thesis award 2014. On the 4th of September, jury chairman Rob Roef (Construsoft) awarded her at the 3TU CME kick-off day at the University of Delft with a cheque to the value of €1000,- .

The Master’s thesis of Jella Jongerius is about improving Quantifiable Performance Indicators (QPI) in Best Value Tenders. Under supervision of Prof.dr.ir. M.J.C.M. (Marcel) Hertogh, Prof.mr.dr.ir. S.C. (Sicco) Santema and Ir. H.C. (Cigdem) Demire, she performed her project at Grontmij Nederland BV.

Her Master’s thesis is chosen by an independent jury from the industry as the best thesis of over three locations. The other nominees for this award were:
-TU Eindhoven: Bob van Bronkhorst – Demand, Supply and Policy; A quantitative analysis of the business- premise and land market;
-Universiteit Twente: Simon Hoitema – Simulatie binnenstedelijke rioleringsprojecten.

According to the jury from industry, the winning MSc Theses should have a clear management summary, contains an actual subject, is practical applicable and is written short and to the point.

Quantifiable Performance Information, the road to winning tenders
The principle goal of Jella’s research was the development of a model for companies to improve the manner how they collect and apply QPI in tenders.  Although engineering companies often are aware of their strengths it seems to be difficult for them to translate this to QPI and substantiate in a dominant way that they are the expert for a certain project. A problem becomes visible between the use of QPI at this time by vendors, and the standard of QPI that is expected by the clients to be able to successfully participate in tenders. This gap had to be explored and closed.

The 3TU Construction Management & Engineering Master’s thesis award is created to give excellent graduation work of CME the attention among a wider audience. For each of the three universities where the CME Master is taught, one graduation projects was nominated.

At the moment, Jella is working at Grontmij as a consultant at the Transportation & Mobility division. At Grontmij she is engaged in tenders, contract formation, contract management and project management.