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1 st workshop: Megaprojects: Theory meets Practice

1 st workshop: Megaprojects: Theory meets Practice. London, 12-13 September Organisers: Nuno Gil, Professor of New Infrastructure Development Andrew Davies, Professor of the Management of Projects. WHO ARE WE?. Scholars in built environment schools Scholars in business schools

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1 st workshop: Megaprojects: Theory meets Practice

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  1. 1st workshop: Megaprojects: Theory meets Practice London, 12-13 September Organisers: Nuno Gil, Professor of New Infrastructure Development Andrew Davies, Professor of the Management of Projects

  2. WHO ARE WE? • Scholars in built environment schools • Scholars in business schools • Practitioners: working for clients, for the project supply chains, for governmental authorities

  3. OUR GOALS • Advancing shared understanding on an important socio-economic phenomenon – megaprojects • Learn from different research perspectives: organization design, innovation, design, project management, institutions, etc. • Invigorate theoretically rigorous research empirically grounded on megaprojects • Bring theory and practice together- be rigorous and relevant

  4. DEBATE IMPORTANT ISSUES • What form of organization are megaprojects? • How does innovation, design happens in megaprojects? • Why has ‘lean’ struggled to make inroads in megaprojects? • Have strategic misrepresentation and optimism bias made a disservice to our understanding of megaprojects? • What are the challenges in using megaproject phenomena for advancing management & organization theory? • What value can megaproject grounded-theory have to the megaproject practice?

  5. OUR PROGRAMME: Thursday morning 9.30-10.30 (presentations) - Alfons van Marrewijk ( VU University Amsterdam) Organizing Mega-projects: Understandingtheir Cultural Practices - Nuno Gil (MBS): Whatis a (mega)design commons? 10.30-11.00 (break) 11.00-12.30 (presentations and panel discussion) - Don Lessard (MIT): Project Shaping and Risk Management (via skype) - William Wu (Imperial College Business School), Andrew Davies (UCL), Lars Frederiksen (Aarhus University): Designing an Ecocity: Building Capabilities in a NascentMarket - Gernot Grabher, Joachim Thiel (HafenCityUniversity of Hamburg): Projects, People and Professions: Trajectories of Learning throughMega-Projects 12.30-14.00 (Lunch)

  6. OUR PROGRAMME: Thursday afternoon 14.00-15.30 (presentations) Sam Macaulay (Imperial College Business School), Andrew Davies (UCL): Constructing Innovation Strategy in Megaprojects ColmLundrigan, Nuno Gil (MBS): Megaprojects: A Hybrid, evolvingmeta-organisation Jennifer Whyte (Reading University):  Digital delivery of megaprojects 15.30-16.00 (Break) 16.00-17.00 (Presentations and Panel Discussion) Richard Tee (EPFL),  Andrew Davies (UCL), Jennifer Whyte (Reading): Modular Components, Integrated Practices: ManagingInterdependence in TemporaryOrganizations Tyrone Pitsis (Newcastle Business School) The Immaculate Conception: Why we need some miracles (cancelled) 17.00-18.00 (Discussion) Andrea Prencipe, LUISS & Gernot Grabher, HafenCityUniversity of Hamburg

  7. DINNER: Bacco Restaurant & wine bar (25-26 Red Lion Street, Holborn)

  8. OUR PROGRAMME: Friday 9.00-09.15 (Introduction) Don Ward, Constructing Excellence CEO 09.15-09.45Key note speaker Sir John Armitt, Chairman, OlympicDeliveryAuthority 09.45-10.30 (Presentations ) Jason Prior, Global Head of Building & Places, AECOM Simon Kirby, ManagingDirector of Infrastructure Projects, Network Rail 10.30-11.00 (Coffee) 11.00-12.30 (Presentations & Panel Discussion) AilieMacAdam, DeliveryDirector, Crossrail/Bechtel Steven Livingston, T2 Programme Director, Heathrow Ltd. Roy Hill, Project Director, High Speed 2 Ltd/ CH2M HILL 12.30-13.30 (Lunch) 13.30-14.30 (Closing debate)

  9. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AECOM (Jason Prior, Paul Dyson, & team) Constructing Excellence (Don Ward) Centre for Infrastructure Development (Manchester) School of Construction &Property Development (UCL) Our distinguished speakers All participants

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