Over the next few months, I will be posting a series of blogs about recently completed projects, with a variety of types. Just a few words of description and two or three lessons learned from that project. Thanks to my University of Toronto Master of Engineering students for their much more detailed reports.
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The “Big Dig”, completed in 2007, was a great success at burying Boston’s downtown expressway. But it was completed 10 years behind schedule, and the cost increased from $2.6 billion to $14.8 billion. Positive lessons: The Owner-controlled project-wide insurance program saved $500 million. The project-specific labour agreement prevented strikes.