Mott Macdonald

S3/E3 Megaprojects (Part 3): Learning from Experience

This is the third and final episode of our three-part special looking at the delivery of megaprojects. In this episode we examine the lessons learned from two of the most iconic tunnelling projects of recent times: London’s Crossrail and New York’s East Side Access. Crossrail was the largest infrastructure project in Europe. Weaving in and…

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S3/E3 Megaprojects (Part 2): How to Deliver?

Our sister podcast Engineering Matters produced this three-part special looking at the delivery of megaprojects to mark its 100th episode. In this second episode, we look at how a client can assess the scale of the task of delivering an impossibly complex scheme, such as a megaproject and supplement gaps in its skillset with industry…

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S3/E3 Megaprojects (Part 1): What Makes a Megaproject?

Megaprojects are among the most complex and challenging of society’s undertakings. Each is grand is scope and due to the scale, none are ever built twice. Although they leverage the resources and political will of a nation, most encounter cost and schedule overruns, damaging reputations and souring public support. Our sister podcast Engineering Matters produced…

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S2/E1 Harness the digital twin

Digital twins can revolutionise our knowledge of underground structures in real time, during construction and in operation. These virtual replicants of real world assets enriched with real time and contextual data are giving more information about our underground structures than ever before. Assets then become more cost effective to design, to build, to maintain, and…

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