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Supply Chain Complexity and Resilience Management Strategies in Megaprojects: A Literature Review

open access: yesBuildings
Megaprojects involve complex, multi-tier supply chains characterised by high interdependence, diverse stakeholders, and significant uncertainty. Despite their strategic and economic importance, many megaprojects continue to experience persistent cost ...
Chet Narayan Gurung   +2 more
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Governance in megaprojects: A pragmatic perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Megaprojects are a growing species in the project environment, often used to transform the face of suburbs, cities or entire regions. Megaprojects have specific challenges and are different to ‘normal’ projects.
Biesenthal, CE
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A Hetero-Functional Graph Theory Perspective of Engineering Management of Mega-Projects

open access: yesIEEE Access
Megaprojects are large-scale, complex, and one-off engineering endeavors that require significant investments from a public or private sector. Such projects generally cost more than a billion dollars, take many years to develop and construct, involve ...
Amirreza Hosseini, Amro M. Farid
doaj   +1 more source

Managing Transportation Megaproject Schedule Risks Using Structural Equation Modelling: A Case Study of Shanghai Hongqiao Integrated Transport Hub in China

open access: yesMATEC Web of Conferences, 2016
Tight schedules, multifunctional scopes, and colossal sizes usually characterize transportation megaprojects as challenging tasks for completion. In order to address these situations, a schedule risk management method was developed in this paper based on
Peng Wei, Shen Liangfa
doaj   +1 more source

Cost overruns – helping to define what they really mean [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Civil engineers are often in the firing line for alleged cost overruns, particularly on major publicly funded infrastructure projects. This usually occurs when the final cost of a project is simply compared with the original estimate, even though this ...
Ansar A   +21 more
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Application of policy-led multi-criteria analysis to the appraisal of the Northern Line Extension, London [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper seeks to both illustrate and act as a proof of concept of how a policy-led multi-criteria analysis framework and its attendant process of the type introduced in the second paper, ‘Theory and Background of Multi-Criteria Analysis: Toward a ...
Dean, M   +3 more
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Developing Routines in Large Inter-organisational Projects: A Case Study of an Infrastructure Megaproject

open access: yesConstruction Economics and Building, 2015
General management research has increasingly recognised the significance of routines in organisational performance. Among organisational tasks, megaprojects depend more on routines selected and created within the project than standard, small-scale ...
Therese Eriksson
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainability in Infrastructure Project Management—Analysis of Two European Megaprojects

open access: yesInfrastructures
To implement the “Green Transition” in civil engineering, this study provides a new critical perspective analyzing the sustainability measures adopted by two European megaprojects.
Baowen Lou   +4 more
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