Introduction: The iron law of megaproject management / Bent Flyvbjerg -- Part I: Challenges. Has megaproject management lost its way? Lessons from history / Sylvain Lenfle and Christoph Loch ; Cycles in megaproject development / Matti Siemiatycki ; Big is fragile : an attempt at theorizing scale...

A study of some 16,000 major projects—from large buildings to bridges, dams, power stations, rockets, railroads, information technology systems, and even the Olympic Games—reveals a massive project-management problem. Only 8.5% of those projects were delivered on time and on budget, while a...

A brisk building boom of hydropower mega-dams is underway from China to Brazil. Whether benefits of new dams will outweigh costs remains unresolved despite contentious debates. We investigate this question with the “outside view” or “reference class forecasting” based on literature on...

This report contains the analysis and recommendations of a group of independent experts regarding timely delivery, costs, and management procedures for the multi-billion-dollar Hong Kong Express Rail Link project connecting Hong Kong with mainland China. The emphasis is on delivery of the...

Megaprojects are large, they are constantly growing ever larger, and more and more are being built in what has been called the biggest investment boom in history. This chapter serves as an introduction to megaprojects, and to The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management. First, megaprojects are...

The ambition for this inaugural edition of The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management is to become the ultimate source for state-of-the-art scholarship in the emerging field of megaproject management. The book offers a rigorous, research-oriented, up-to-date academic view of the discipline...

Emerging economies including Brazil, China, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Pakistan have begun to build large hydroelectric dams, after a decade-long lull in construction worldwide. But these projects come in late and over budget, over and over again — and a new survey from Oxford University’s...