References about my PhD thesis

My experience in international construction projects and my interest in such enterprises led me to take up PhD studies at the Institute for Construction Management at the University of the German Federal Armed Forces in Munich. The subject of my dissertation was "Project management of large-scale projects in the pre-contract phase" (Subtitel: "Improvement of the project management of large-scale projects in the tendering phase by analysing the disruptive factors and the conflict potential of construction processes"). It was initially limited to the particular problems of handling overseas construction projects (from a German perspective), but the subject was extended at the beginning of 2013 to "large-scale construction projects in general". This change was necessary in order to cover the problems of large German projects such as "BER Airport", "Stuttgart 21 Railway Station", "Elbphilharmonie" and other projects that were going wrong at that time in Germany. The dissertation was completed in the summer of 2015.

In March 2017, DGA-Bau (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Außergerichtliche Streitbeilegung in der Bau- und Immobilienwirtschaft e. V.) named this dissertation the best scientific work of the year 2017 on methods of "alternative dispute resolution in the construction industry".