Megaproject
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A megaproject is an extremely large scale investment project. Altshuler and Luberoff (2003) define megaprojects as "initiatives that are physical, very expensive, and public." On his website on megaprojects, Bent Flyvbjerg defines megaprojects as typically costing in excess of US$1 billion and attracting high levels of public attention because of substantial impacts on communities, environment, and budgets.
Megaprojects include bridges, tunnels, motorways, railways, airports, seaports, power plants, dams, wastewater projects, oil and natural gas extraction projects, public buildings, information technology systems, aerospace projects, and weapons systems.
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[edit] Examples
Some examples of megaprojects are:
[edit] Aerospace projects
[edit] Airport projects
[edit] Building projects
- Hacienda Business Park, Pleasanton, California, USA
- Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York City, USA
[edit] Canal projects
[edit] IT projects
- National Programme for IT for the UK's National Health Service
[edit] Rail and rapid transit projects
- Bay Area Rapid Transit System, San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
- Channel tunnel between France and the UK
- The Jubilee line extension on the London Underground
[edit] Road traffic projects
- Big Dig, Boston, Massachusetts, USA<ref>Dan McNichol and Andy Ryan, The Big Dig, Silver Lining Press, 1991 </ref>
- National Highways Development Project, India
[edit] Water infrastructure projects
- East Bay Municipal Utility District wet weather overflow project, Oakland, California, USA<ref>Environmental Impact Statement for the East Bay Municipal Utility District Wet Weather Overflow Project, EMI prepared for the U.S. EPA and East Bay Municipal Utility District, Oakland, Ca. (1985)</ref>
- San Diego-Tijuana wastewater treatment plant, USA-Mexico
- Thames Tideway Scheme, London
[edit] Sources and Further Readings
- Alan Altshuler and David Luberoff, Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2003). ISBN 0815701292
- Bent Flyvbjerg, Nils Bruzelius, and Werner Rothengatter, Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition (Cambridge University Press, 2003). ISBN 0521009464
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