"In summary, the efficiency potential primarily lies in the improved incentive-structures as well as in savings opportunities for individual project costs and administrative overheads. […] The pilot projects in Germany show that […] it actually only takes courage and a lot of involvement to leverage these available efficiency-potentials as partners."

Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Alfen, Professor for Economics in the construction sector at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany, and managing partner of Alfen Consult GmbH