Title Completing the "Big Dig" : managing the final stages of Boston's Central Artery/Tunnel Project / Committee for Review of the Project Management Practices Employed on the Boston Central Artery/Tunnel ("Big Dig") Project, Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Acadeny of Engineering, National Research Counci, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies

Published Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (x, 49 pages) : map Contents COMPLETING THE "BIG DIG" -- Copyright -- Acknowledgment of Reviewers -- Contents -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- Cost and Schedule Procedures -- Schedule Management -- Cost Management -- Cost/Schedule Tradeoff -- Value Engineering -- Contract Administration -- Claims Management -- Contingency Management -- Cost Recovery -- Reporting and Controls -- Senior Management's Information Overload -- Schedule Analysis -- Oversight for Management Consultant -- Integrated Project-Management Oversight -- Independent Peer Review Transition from Construction to Operations -- Public Education -- Strategic Thinking -- Security -- 1 Introduction -- BACKGROUND -- ENGINEERING CHALLENGES -- PROJECT MANAGEMENT -- EXTERNAL OVERSIGHT -- NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL INVOLVEMENT -- MEETINGS AND BRIEFINGS -- REFERENCES -- 2 Cost and Schedule Procedures -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND -- COST AND SCHEDULE CONTROL -- Value Engineering -- Fast-Track Construction -- Managing Cost and Schedule -- CURRENT STATUS -- FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- Schedule Management -- Cost Management -- Cost/Schedule Tradeoff -- Value Engineering -- REFERENCES 3 Contract Administration -- INTRODUCTION -- CONTRACTING AND MANAGEMENT PRACTICES -- CLAIMS AND CHANGES -- Claims Management -- Modifications -- Cost Recovery -- CONTINGENCY -- FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- Claims Management -- Contingency Management -- Cost Recovery -- REFERENCES -- 4 Reporting and Controls -- INTRODUCTION -- REPORTING -- CONTROLS -- OBSERVATIONS -- FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- Information Overload for Senior Management -- Schedule Analysis -- REFERENCES -- 5 Oversight of Management Consultant -- INTRODUCTION -- OVERSIGHT -- PEER REVIEW -- FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Integrated Project-Management Oversight -- Independent Peer Review -- REFERENCES -- 6 Transition from Construction to Operations -- USER TRANSITION -- Public Education -- Safety -- MANAGEMENT TRANSITION -- A Strategic Approach to Transition -- SECURITY -- FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- Public Education -- Strategic Thinking -- Security -- 7 Conclusions -- Appendix A Committee to Review Project Management Practices Employed on the Boston Central Artery ("Big Dig") Project -- Appendix B Statement of Task -- Appendix C Presentations to the Committee Appendix D Documents Submitted to the Committee by MTA and IPO -- Appendix E BOARD ON INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE CONSTRUCTED ENVIRONMENT Notes "This study was supported by contract no. 02-1218 between the National Academy of Sciences and the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority."--Page ii Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel Project (Mass.) SUBJECT Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel Project (Mass.) fast Subject Highway engineering -- Massachusetts -- Boston Tunnels -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Design and construction Tunneling -- Massachusetts -- Boston TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Structural. Highway engineering Tunneling Tunnels -- Design and construction SUBJECT Ted Williams Tunnel (Boston, Mass.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006003884 Subject Massachusetts -- Boston Massachusetts -- Boston -- Ted Williams Tunnel Form Electronic book Author National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for Review of the Project Management Practices Employed on the Boston Central Artery/Tunnel ("Big Dig") Project. Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. ISBN 0309566576 9780309566575 1280209240 9781280209246 9786610209248 6610209243

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