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Portfolio Delivery Approach to Township Sewage Treatment Facilities in China: A Case Study

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The wide need for sewage treatment facilities at the township level across China implies an emerging niche market for water and sanitation developers, investors and financiers. However this potential market is difficult to enter with traditional financing and delivery methods, because township sewage features small amount, volatile quantity, geographically scattering, immature fee charging system, weak affordability, and lack of capacities. A group of concession sewage treatment projects collectively implemented by a private company in the Changsha County of Hunan Province under the so called ‘Changsha Model’ provided innovative solutions. This cases study first examined the portfolio approach in terms of multiple delivery method integration, technology, and centralized control system, and evaluated the replicability of the new model. Practices and lessons learned from the case were then presented and summarized that can be applied to the following township sewage treatment facility development. Last, the Changsha Model was compared with similar infrastructure portfolio delivery solutions applied in the US.

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Acknowledgments

Completion of this paper is attributed to the kind help and support of Beijing Sound Group which hosted the site visit and shared a lot of valuable data and insights, and the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under the project No. 71371131.

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  1. Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064, People’s Republic of China

    Chuan Chen & Nini Wu

  2. School of Architecture and Building, Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia

    Igor Martek

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  1. Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

    Jiuping Xu

  2. Depart de Enge Mecânica e Industrial, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia - Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT/UNL), Caparica, Portugal

    Virgílio António Cruz-Machado

  3. LeBow College of Business Department of Decision Sciences, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Benjamin Lev

  4. Institute of Operations Research, Karlsruhe Institute ofTechnology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

    Stefan Nickel

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Chen, C., Wu, N., Martek, I. (2014). Portfolio Delivery Approach to Township Sewage Treatment Facilities in China: A Case Study. In: Xu, J., Cruz-Machado, V., Lev, B., Nickel, S. (eds) Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 280. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55182-6_20

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