Virginia Greiman is professor of megaprojects and planning and international development and project finance at Boston University and holds academic appointments at Harvard University Law School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is a recognized scholar on infrastructure and innovation megaprojects, project finance and governance, international law and development, cyber law and cyber security.
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RESEARCH
METHODOLOGIES
1. Combined Theory and Practice – 10 prepublication reviews
and comments including PMI
2. More than 600 references (275 Scholarly) and source
documents, data, government reports, policies, 9000
procedures, feasibility studies and benefit analysis
3. 58 semi-structured interviews – perceptions of risk, cost,
schedule, financing, benefit realization, quality assurance,
leadership, governance integration, sustainability, project
success and failure
4. Interviewees – Master Designer, 12 Engineers, 2 Members
of the MTA Board, Director of Executive Oversight
Coordination Commission, 2 Governors, 2 Project Directors,
Utility Task Force Chair, 2 MTA Chairs, 9 Contractors, 2
Attorneys, 3 Safety Reps, 1 Broker, 2 Insurance Reps.
Senior Affirmative Market Inspector, Human Resources
Director and Assistant Director, Claims and Changes
Director, Director, Office of Public Affairs, Director, Save the
Harbor, Assistant Attorney General, Budget Director, 2
Program Managers, FHWA Project Auditor and Quality
Control, project managers – Heathrow Terminal 5, Crossrail,
Boston Harbor, Hong Kong Airport, Euro Tunnel, New
Haven Crossing, Route 3 North, Denver Airport
5. Themes – focus on schedule, cost, team effort, inherent
internal and external uncertainties, changing nature of
political environment, continuous design development,
evolutionary and constant change, need for flexibility to
reach goals, project employees inward looking, government
outward looking toward benefits realization.
15. ARE MEGAPROJECTS REALLY
AS BAD AS EVERYONE SAYS?
“Measuring the success of a megaproject
is not linear. There are twists and turns
not only in terms of engineering and the
emergence of new technology, … but in
the moving target of pubic expectations.”
Anthony Flint, Atlantic Cities.com, September 18, 2013
18. EIS - Environmental Impact Statement ICE - Interstate Cost Estimate CSU – Cost and Schedule Update
Cost of Boston’s Big Dig
Greiman, V. (2013) Megaproject Management,
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, London, Hoboken
19. Major Impact on Project Cost
and Schedule
Changing Stakeholder
Expectations
Continuous Design Development
and Unforeseen Subsurface
Conditions
Complex Governance Structures
and Integration
Federal Rules and Requirements
26. Project Security and Emergency Response
CA/T
Project
Project Security
and Emergency
Response Plan
Contractor
Safety and
Security
Requirements
Full time
project
security force
Terrorism
Risk
Assessment
Project
Control
Center
Fig. 9.12
copyright (c) V. A. Greiman 2015
Greiman, V. 2013. Megaproject Management, John Wiley & Sons,
Hoboken, New York, London
29. What is the Greatest Risk?
Unknown Knowns
Things that are within our
understanding but because of
perceptions, assumptions,
expectations and beliefs we have
not identified them as risks!
Greiman, V. Megaproject Management, John A. Wiley, Hoboken,
New York, London (2013)
30. The Problem of Perception
We see the world the way we do
not because that is the way it is,
but because we have these
ways of seeing.
- Wittgenstein, L. (1953). Philosophische
Untersuchungen. Philosophical Investigations
(translated by G. E. M. Anscombe). Oxford:
Blackwell.
- Wittgenstein, L. (1958). Philosophical
investigations. New York: Macmillan.
31. Black Hawk Down
The Analysis of Black Hawk Down, found no
bad guys, no smoking guns, ‘‘no one to blame’’
It showed that the F-15 pilots ‘‘saw’’ Iraqi
helicopters because they expected to see them.
This was because the AWACS mission crew
failed to monitor the Black Hawk’s flight and to
report it to the F-15 s.
(Snook, 2000: 10).
33. Crossrail chief says worker who died in
tunnel construction 'shouldn’t have been
where he was'
The Independent, 21 September 2014
copyright (c) V. A. Greiman 2015
35. Big Dig’s Worst Disaster
copyright (c) V. A. Greiman 2015
2006 Ted Williams Tunnel
Roof Collapse
Source: NTSB Report
36. Big Dig Tunnel Roof Collapse
National Transportation Safety Board Findings (2006)
1. Lack of understanding and knowledge in the construction
community about creep in adhesive anchoring systems.
2. Prior Incident - Failure to determine that the anchor
displacement that was found in the high-occupancy vehicle
tunnel in 1999 was a result of anchor creep.
3. Failure of the owner to implement a timely tunnel inspection
program that would likely have revealed the ongoing anchor creep.
copyright (c) V. A. Greiman 2015
37. Fig. 10.7 I-35 Highway Bridge Collapse, August 1, 2007
Minneapolis, MN
p. 19 copyright (c) V. A. Greiman 2015
44. Project Organization
Central Artery / Tunnel Project
Interface
MTA Positions
MTA Chairman
MTA
Headquarters
MTA General
Counsel
MTA Project
Director
Quality
Procurement
Internal
Controls
Accounting
Risk
Management
Public
Information
Fiscal
Administrative
Services
B/PB Program
Manager
Design
Design Chiefs
Geotech
Civil/Structural
Bridge
Engr. Services
Architecture
IPCS
Traffic Engr.
Traffic Mgmt.
Environmental
Elect./Mech.
Rowars
Information Tech.
Design Mgmt.
Area
P.E.
P.E.
P.E.
P.E.
Area
P.E.
P.E.
P.E.
P.E.
Legal
Claims &
Changes
Human
Resources
Construction
Metals
Safety
Cost &
Schedule
Construction
Services
Tech Support
Lab
Experts -
Means/Methods
Closeout/Training
Utility Maint./Cond. T.O.
Special Projects
Maint. of Traffic
Area
R.E.
R.E.
R.E.
R.E.
Area
R.E.
R.E.
R.E.
R.E.
Area
R.E.
R.E.
R.E.
R.E.
Area
R.E.
R.E.
R.E.
R.E.
Construction
Management
Contractors
Milestone
Managers
48. The difficult is what takes a little
time; the impossible is what takes
a little longer.
—Fridtjof Nansen, Nobel Peace
Prize Winner, 1922
Final Thoughts
49. You must put your head into the
Lion’s Mouth if the Performance is
to be a Success!
—Sir Winston Churchill
Moreover…….