MIMIC Deliverable 1.4 (v.2): Stakeholder analysis framework for construction logistics

The urban built environment concentrates due to the growing urbanization trend, triggering construction and renovation works in urban areas. Although construction works often revitalize cities upon completion, the associated logistics activities engender a significant financial and environmental footprint if not handled appropriately. Cities have the largest potential to reduce negative impacts through requirements on construction logistics. However, today, there is a lack of knowledge within cities on how to set such demands and how to involve and manage the numerous and varying stakeholders in these processes. This deliverable presents a participatory decision-making framework for the governance of urban construction logistics on economic, environmental and societal levels, building further on the Multi-Actor Multi-Criteria Analysis (MAMCA). The framework was then implemented on a use case in the dense urban Brussels-Capital Region (Belgium), gathering a wide variety of stakeholders in the context of a sustainable Construction Logistics Scenario (CLS) evaluation. Special attention was paid on the identification of implementation barriers and the role of governments to facilitate the introduction and city-wide roll-out of novel CLS. Findings show how different processes are site-, actor- and condition-specific, thereby delivering a common built object which is often based on different motivations and concerns. The study proposes a flexible, replicable and upscalable framework both from an inter- and intracity perspective, which can serve to support (1) the management of processes and CLS, (2) the management of people and the community, and (3) the project and city, in the context of multi-level governance. This deliverable is part of MIMIC (Minimizing impact of construction material flows in cities: Innovative Co-Creation), a JPI Europe funded research project with demonstration cases in Brussels, Vienna, Oslo and Sweden. Deliverable 1.4 provides guidelines to introduce formal evaluation methods into the co-creation process. The Multi-Actor Multi-Criteria Analysis (MAMCA), designed by Macharis (2000), aims at reaching a consensus among stakeholders and stakeholder groups, hence highlighting which logistics solutions receive the largest support. Deliverable 1.4 aims to formulate how the MAMCA methodology can be implemented within the MIMIC project and, ultimately, within the construction logistics sector. The first iteration of this deliverable, published in September 2019, introduces the MAMCA evaluation method, explains how this method can be applied in the co-creation process in MIMIC and in construction logistics, and provides practical guidelines to carry out the analysis with the help of the online MAMCA software. This updated deliverable builds further on the descriptive package highlighted in the first version, and presents the developed stakeholder involvement framework specifically for the construction logistics sector, taking into account the typical construction logistics dimensions and characteristics, and its implementation in the Brussels-Capital Region. In light of keeping this deliverable to-the-point, the focus is laid on the framework description and its implementation findinngs. Further details on the methodology, results of criteria weighing exercise and overall workshop dynamics can be retrieved in the journal paper which has been published by Brusselaers et al. (2021): Brusselaers, N., Mommens, K., & Macharis, C. (2021). Building Bridges: A Participatory Stakeholder Framework for Sustainable Urban Construction Logistics. Sustainability, 13(5), 2678. doi:10.3390/su13052678