Improved quality through co-responsibility
Cooperating with Strukton means working with a partner that assumes responsibility, not only for the products, but for the total lifecycle of structures or even environments. Strukton oversees the complete realisation chain from draft to operational phase and can play an active (directive) role throughout. Strukton commits the knowledge and expertise of the various bundled group companies and enters into alliances with parties both inside and outside the group. Customers can benefit from the bundled capabilities offered by Strukton, with cost savings running as high as 10% to 15%.
Pioneering role
The challenge is to go beyond the realisation and delivery of projects. Strukton strives to assume a risk-bearing role and to take over responsibility for infrastructural and accommodation projects. Making suppliers (co-)responsible for long-term solutions practically always has a positive effect on quality. For that reason, Strukton opted in 1999 for a pioneering role in the area of concession-related projects in the further development of public private partnerships (PPP) in the Netherlands.
Safire and the Government Buildings Department
An example of successful corporation is that between the Safire consortium and the Government Buildings Department. Financial and quantitative criteria played a role in choosing a solution for the renovation and refitting of the Ministry of Finance accommodation in The Hague. That offered scope for innovative and inventive solutions. The result: a design that excellently meets the requirements of the customer and yields savings of 15% on traditional tendering procedures. Safire, which was led by Strukton, won the 2007 Netherlands Building Prize in the integral building category, as well as the public award.