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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Some examples of megaprojects are:
[edit] Pipelines
[edit] Aerospace projects
[edit] Airport projects
- Denver International Airport, Denver, Colorado, USA.
- Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia
- Suvarnabhumi Airport, Thailand
- Kansai International Airport, Japan
- Hong Kong International Airport, Hong Kong
- Dubai International Airport, Dubai, UAE
- Dubai World Central International Airport, Jebel Ali, UAE
- Montréal-Mirabel International Airport, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Toronto Pearson International Airport, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
[edit] Building projects
- Hacienda Business Park, Pleasanton, California, USA
- Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York City, USA
- Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York, USA
- Parliament House, Canberra, Australia
- Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
[edit] Canal projects
[edit] IT projects
[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
- Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland.
- Marmaray in Istanbul, Turkey, an express railway system connecting Europe and Asia under waters of Bosphorus.
[edit] Road traffic projects
[edit] Science projects
- ITER International nuclear fusion project, in France
- Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland
- Manhattan Project, in the United States
- International Space Station, in Low Earth orbit
[edit] Petroleum projects
[edit] Port projects
- Yangshan port.
[edit] Water infrastructure projects
- Snowy Mountains Scheme river diversion, irrigation, dam and hydro-electric project, New South Wales/Victoria, Australia
- East Bay Municipal Utility District wet weather overflow project, Oakland, California, USA[2]
- San Diego-Tijuana wastewater treatment plant, USA-Mexico
- Thames Tideway Scheme, London
- Deep Tunnel Project, Chicago Reversing of the Chicago River
[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
[edit] References
- ^ Dan McNichol and Andy Ryan, The Big Dig, Silver Lining Press, 1991
- ^ 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)
