Individual Assignment will focus on the impact of culture.
To prepare for this individual Assignment
- Review the article by Davies, Gann, and Douglas (2009) about the Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 project
- Review the article about the Denver airport project which you located in Week 7
To complete this Individual Assignment
In a 1,000 word paper:
- Explore how the project culture has developed and reinforced in the T5 project and compare it with the Denver project.
- Evaluate the impact of culture and cultural differences on both projects.
nnovation in Megaprojects: SYSTEMS INTEGRATION AT LONDON HEATHROW TERMINAL 5 Andrew Davies David Gann Tony Douglas growing number of infrastructure projects are being proposed and built throughout the world. A megaproject is an investment of $1B or more to build the physical infrastructures that enable Apeople, resources, and information to move within buildings and between locations throughout the world. Organizations responsible for produc- ing megaprojects face a “performance paradox.” Despite the growth in number and opportunities to bene?t from learning, megaprojects continue to have poor 1 performance records. Most are unsuccessful measured against their original time, cost, quality, and safety objectives, as well as their expected revenue predictions. The construction of airport infrastructure provides examples of how megaprojects can go wrong. When Denver’s $5B international airport opened in 1995, it was almost 200 per cent over the original budget, 16 months late, and passenger traf?c achieved only half the predicted revenues. The opening of the airport was plagued by problems with the baggage handling system, which was eventually abandoned in August 2005. Although Hong Kong’s $20B Chek Lap Kok airport opened on time in July 1998, severe disruptions were experienced for six months after opening due to computer problems with the baggage han- dling system. The authors thank Jennifer Whyte, Catelijne Coopmans, and Tim Brady, who worked on a larger study of the T5 project with us, and four anonymous referees who helped to develop our conceptual approach. We also thank Michael Schrage, Mark Dodgson, Keith Clarke, Jeremy Watson, Richard Baldwin, Richard de Neufville, James Barlow, Lars Frederiksen, Nilay Shah, and David Fisk for valu- able comments on earlier versions of the paper. We are grateful for sponsorship from the UK’s Engi- neering and Physical Sciences Research Council, which enabled research for this article to be carried out….
