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PM Network
Unchartered Waters
It could be a watershed moment for Finland and Estonia. Finnish entrepreneur Peter Vesterbacka, the former chief marketing officer of the company that developed Angry Birds, is looking to build the…
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PM Network
Safe Way
Overcrowding on Mumbai, India's above-ground rails is so extreme, it's often deadly. On average, seven commuters die each day, with more than 2,700 deaths in 2018. Relief is en route, with the state…
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PM Network
Building Bridges
When a student project team from Pennsylvania State University set out to build a pedestrian bridge in Machacamarca, Bolivia, it quickly realized that engineering is but one part of a successful…
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PM Network
Sequencing Made Simpler
Talk about a lessons learned database. U.S. construction and engineering giant Bechtel has been in business for 120 years, with some 25,000 construction projects under its belt—many of them…
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PM Network
Support Staff
The Morpheus Hotel project faced constraints from the start: First, the project site was a relatively small 6,850 square meters (73,700 square feet), the last parcel of available land squeezed into…
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Project Management Journal
Contractual Complexity in Construction Projects
Building on the multifunctional perspective from current contract theory, we conceptualize contractual complexity as a three-dimensional construct to depict the explicitness and elaborateness of…
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PM Network
Trail Blazers
There's no shortcut for building a road to the top of the world. A delicate permafrost ecosystem and shifting climate patterns stood in the way of completing Canada's first permanent highway to the…
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PM Network
Data's New Digs
The world runs on data, exponentially growing amounts of data. It all has to live somewhere, so tech giants and internet service providers are launching projects to build massive new facilities.…
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Project Management Journal
Dealing with Uncertainty and Ambiguity in a Complex Project
In 2008, the Quebec government approved a CAD$2.3 billion budget to build a modern academic healthcare facility that would provide state-of-the-art, highly specialized healthcare services to the…
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PM Network
Pipe Dreams
Call in the infrastructure plumber. Wastewater upgrade and replacement projects are among the biggest and most complex infrastructure developments cities undertake. Systems are often deep…
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