Industrial Megaprojects : Concepts, Strategies, and Practices for Success, Ha...

Description: Industrial Megaprojects : Concepts, Strategies, and Practices for Success, Hardcover by Merrow, Edward W., ISBN 1119893178, ISBN-13 9781119893172, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Over half of large-scale building projects such as renewable energy installations; drilling platforms, chemical plants, dams, etc., have miserably poor results: billions of dollars in overruns, long delays in design and construction, and poor operability of plant once finally completed. They occasionally make the news, ., BP's fiasco in the Gulf of Mexico or Shell's $10 billion+ overrun on the Sakhalin 2 project in Eastern Russia. But for obvious reasons, companies prefer to bury the disasters with as little publicity as possible. The fact that the projects are having such a rough time being completed successfully is very well-known to the managements of the companies involved, and they are deeply concerned about a future that features so many of these problematic projects. This second edition of the bestselling book on megaprojects includes extensive new material on renewable energy and decarbonization projects. It explains the underlying causes of over budget, delayed, and unsafe megaprojects: poorproject management, destructive team behaviors, weak accountability systems, an almost pathological focus on the short-term, and unwillingness to invest in deep technical expertise"--

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