Samenvatting

Following the footsteps of the United States, the United Kingdom and many European countries, the Netherlands government is implementing Public Finance Constructions (PFC) as a means of financing and realizing public infrastructures. Being preceded by the Ministry of Traffic, Public Works and Water Management, the Dutch Ministry of Defense (MoD) is picking up on this trend of having private parties finance assets for Defense. The new Headquarters for the Army is going to be built in a PFC-way. The authors interviewed Lieutenant Colonel Berkhout who works at Central Staff and he is one of the only officers having experience with private finance because he is a member of the working group to realize the new army Headquarters.