This research is supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.71942006 and 71620107004);Humanities and Social Sciences Research Project of the Ministry of Education of China(Grant No.20YJC630099).
1 Introduction Megaprojects are a critical aspect of socio-economic development that can have huge effects on local communities,the environment,society,politics,or locals9 way of life(Zeng et al.,2015;Denicol et al.,2...
Grand infrastructure projects,such as dam,power plant,petroleum,and gas industry projects,have several contractors working on them in several independent sub-projects.The concern of reducing the duration of these proj...
This work was part of the research funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.71671088,71841026,71732003,71471082,and 71573037);by the Third Phases of the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions(Su Zheng Ban Made(2018)No.87).
Mega projects require large funding,which often reaches tens or even hundreds of billions of yuan.In the state-oriented financing system,the huge fund gap has generally become an important factor restricting the devel...
The new Fuzhou-Xiamen Railway of Lot 6(Fig.1)built by CCCC Second Harbor Engineering Company Ltd.is located in Quanzhou City,Fujian Province,passing through Jinjiang City and Shishi City and the Taiwan Residents Inves...
This study provides a critical review of the concepts of Agile,Lean,Scrum,and Last Planner®System(LPS).A comparative analysis is conducted between LPS and Scrum to expand LPS by considering Scrum’s best practices.Eig...
Financial incentives that stimulate energy investments under public-private partnerships are considered scarce public resources,which require deliberate allocation to the most economically justified projects to maximi...
This paper addresses a research question on why construction companies fail in their business. Starting with the concept of growth and capacity underinvestment archetype, a new and operational systems thinking model i...
This paper uses project organizational theories to draw lessons from a historic megaproject, the Ajaokuta Steel Plant (ASP). Archival reports on the ASP were explored to identify the unique attributes of the project...
funded by the Nationale Bank van Belgie(NBB)and the Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds(BOF)for the project,under contract number BOF12GOA021
This paper is an invited request to describe the main research challenges in the domain of resourceconstrained project scheduling. The paper is split up in three parts. In today's challenges, research endeavors that h...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.71771067 and 71390522)
Infrastructure mega-projects(IMP), which involve complex interactions and feedback, have more significant impact on economic, social, and other systems.This paper proposes a concept—the IMP complex ecosystem—to anal...