Mega-project

It is, however, possible that the plan for establishing underground gas storage in Georgia may benefit form the implementation of the Shah Deniz and SCP. The effects on Georgia from a successful implementation of those 2 mega-projects are two-fold ... 

Finally, implementation must be ensured. The scenarios resulting from the first two criteria can range from one mega project, to a set of multiple projects to consolidate smaller instances, to setting up a single instance. 

Sophisticated control systems are invaluable, and should be obligatory, in mega projects as well as in extensive turnaround work, where all activities must be performed with clockwork precision. However, for small projects, as well as many major ones, they increase execution costs without real benefits. It is up to the Project Manager to ascertain that the controls applied by the contractors are commensurate to the size and complexity of the project. 

For a small, simple project the startup could be as easy as starting a pump. Obviously, one person could probably handle the startup efficiently. For a mega project, several hundred operators and engineers may be needed. For this description, let us assume that the project is for a first of a kind operation with 200 pieces of major equipment. Many of the functions will be there no matter what size project. For your project, the size and complexity will determine the total number of people required. The organization chart in Fig. 18.2 shows the startup team and the reporting relationship. 

Lin AC, Mak ML, Mantas A, Patel M, Repyakh IV, Staikova M, Salpietro SJ, Tang TH, Vank JC, Perczel A, Csonka GI, Farkas O, Torday LL, Szekely Z, Csizmadia IG. Prospects in computational molecular medicine a millennial mega-project on peptide folding. J Mol Struct Theochem 2000 500 5-58. 

Emery JJ (1995) Dominican Republic mega project uses hi-tech hot mix. Ontario Hot Mix Producers Association, (OHMPA), Asphaltopics 8 23-56... 

Keywords flawless startup production integrity Pearl GTL mega-project... 

Flawless Startup was introduced by co-author Roel Comelisse after having analysed the systemic flaws that had occurred in the implementation of mega projects across the industry. The term Flawless stems from the drive to have less flaws rather than pretending to be perfect and instigates a method of continuous improvement in project execution. 

Altshuler, Alan, and David Luberoff. Mega-Projects The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment. Washington, D.C. Brookings Institution, 2003. Examines the building of some of the largest urban transportation projects in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and the funding, and politics, that supported them. 

Google and the Internet A Mega-Project Nesting Within Another Mega-Project... 

One major difference between the Internet megaproject and civil engineering mega-projects is that the Internet is a not owned entity (NOE) while the others are owned entities. Nobody owns the infrastructure of the Internet, not even a single state, nor can any corporation or individual control, maintain, sell, dismiss, rent or even regulate it. For the Internet this ownership entails conditions of a no man s land, or a not-owned entity. And since communication flows span millions of individuals freely interacting in cyberspace and not in a bounded institutionalized locality, the Internet can be considered a borderless entity. 

Obviously, communication activity serves to create additional information one example is given by the citizen s media where the experience of communicating in a blog on the tsunami proved to be the best and most powerful way of producing information in chaotic situations via communicative practices. Open source teams allow faster collective reception of new knowledge from all over the world. All these examples show the connectivity and creative power of the Internet as a mega-project for information, communication, and organization. 

The building techniques of civil engineering embedded in its mega-projects, the architectural culture and skills and the needs of the contractor and future owner, come together to shape the product s quality, its cultural significance and its influence on competitors, visitors and users. Similarly, software engineering and the needs of profit-oriented Internet companies, shape the quality of the Internet as a powerful mediator of individuals behaviors in cyberspace. They also shape sensu... 

Briefly, both the Internet and the traditional megaproject are not merely technological or business-oriented constructs or neutral spaces. Also the more common mega-projects from Civil Engineering are not neutral and can be contested by citizens. To be sure they are not neutral since they shape places and flows and, in some cases without public consultations, can dramatically alter citizens settlements and practices. However the Internet s meganess as a cultural complexity device seems to affect the mindset and practices even more than traditional mega-projects. 

Paradiso, M. (2010). Google and the internet A mega-project nesting within another megaproject. In S. D. Brunn (Eds.), Engineering Earth The Impacts of Megaengineering Projects. Dordrecht Springer. 

GeUert, P. K., Lynch, B. D. (2003). Mega-projects as displacements. Intematiorud Social Science Journal, 175, 15-25. 

This section draws upon Janis van der Westhuizen (2007). Glitz, glamour and the Gautrain Mega-projects as political symbols. Politikon, 34(3), 333-352. 

Luberoff, D., Altshuler, A. (1996). Mega-Project A political history of Boston s multibillion dollar artery/tunnel project. Cambridge, MA Harvard University, A. Alfred Taubman Center for State and Local Government. Revised edition. 

Levine, R. S., Hughes, M. T, Mather, C. R. (2008). Sustainable city-regions Mega-projects in balance with the earth s carrying capacity. Paper presented at the Conference on Engineering Earth The Impacts of Megaengineering Projects. Lexington, Kentucky University of Kentucky. 23 July. 

Sustainable City Regions Mega-Projects in Balance with the Earth s Carrying Capacity... 

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