You are warmly invited to this week's Institute for Transport Studies Friday seminar:
Learning Across Sectors for European Megaprojects: What can High Speed Trains Learn from Nuclear New Build Projects?
Professor Naomi Brookes
Professor of Complex Project Management,
School of Civil Engineering,
The University of Leeds
Friday 22nd June, 2.30-3.30 pm in the ITS Lecture Theatre, 36-40 University Road
Abstract: Megaprojects (sometimes known as ‘major projects’ or ‘complex projects and services’) are extremely large-scale investment projects typically costing more than EUR 0.5 billion. Megaprojects include powerplant (conventional, nuclear or renewable), oil and gas extraction and processing projects and infrastructural projects such as highways and tunnels, bridges, railways, seaports and even cultural events such as the Olympics. Megaprojects are united by their extreme complexity (both in technical and human terms) and by a long record of poor delivery. Their inability to be designed appropriately and delivered on time and to budget has profound implications not only for the construction organisations delivering them but also for the client organisations commissioning them (which are often governments spending public money.)
Previous research into megaprojects has tended to concentrate on megaprojects in one particular sector (i.e. industrial megaprojects, transportation megaprojects). Naomi presents the work of the EU funded COST Action , ‘MEGAPROJECTS’, that holds, as a fundamental tenet, that learning across sectors is possible for megaproject design and delivery. Naomi, who is the Action Chair, presents the overall approach of the project and compares and contrasts some of the cases that are being developed by MEGAPROJECT. She highlights opportunities to participate in the Action and the cross-sectoral themes that are already beginning to emerge.
Naomi holds a chair in Complex Project Management in the School of Civil Engineering. She previously held roles as Director of the European Construction Institute and a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Complex Project Management at Loughborough University. Naomi’s research in complex projects has led her to work with a wide variety of organisations and stakeholders from investment bankers and aerospace manufacturers through to health service professionals, police forces and museum trusts. She has delivered research projects for the ESRC, EPSRC, British Council and a wide variety of individual organisations.
More details about the Institute for Transport Studies, as well as a map and directions can be found at: http://www.its.leeds.ac.uk/ All welcome, refreshments provided. Please get in contact for any further details.
Dr Caroline Mullen
Institute for Transport Studies
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
0113 343 5343
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