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@CONFERENCE{Lædre2026,
author={Lædre, Ragnhild Svarva and Lau, Albert and Torp, Olav },
editor={Hamzeh, Farook and Poshdar, Mani and Garcia-Lopez,, Nelly P. },
title={Target Value Delivery for railway infrastructure – a semi-systematic literature review}, 
journal={Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 34)}, 
booktitle={Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 34)}, 
year={2026},
pages={1442-1451},
url={http://www.iglc.net/papers/details/2570},
doi={10.24928/2026/0289},
affiliation={M.Sc. Student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, ragnhild.laedre@icloud.com, https://orcid.org/0009-0009-1488-9684 ; Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, albert.lau@ntnu.no, orcid.org/0000-0002-7321-1197 ; Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, olav.torp@ntnu.no, orcid.org/0000-0002-1916-5097 },
abstract={Target Value Delivery (TVD) is a value-based project delivery approach originating from Lean Construction that integrates cost, value, and design decisions through early collaboration and target-driven processes. While TVD has been studied and applied in building projects, its applicability to railway infrastructure projects remains underexplored. Given persistent challenges related to cost overruns, uncertainty, and fragmented collaboration in railway project delivery, there is a need to examine whether TVD may be relevant in this context.
The purpose of this project is to assess TVD’s potential relevance for railway infrastructure projects. The study is based on a semi-systematic literature review of journal articles and conference proceedings, identified through structured searches in Scopus and the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC) database, supplemented by snowballing techniques.
The findings show that empirical applications of TVD are primarily documented within building projects, with no identified cases of formal TVD implementation in railway infrastructure. However, several challenges commonly reported in railway projects align closely with the problems TVD addresses. The study concludes that TVD shows conceptual potential for railway infrastructure projects and provides a foundation for further empirical research. },
author_keywords={Target Value Delivery (TVD), lean construction, target costing, railway, infrastructure. },
address={Singapore, Singapore },
issn={2789-0015 },
publisher={ },
language={English},
document_type={Conference Paper},
source={IGLC},
}