Research commissioned by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) shows that individual government departments currently have more than 100 major maps which relate to policies and programmes on the economy, transport, communications, housing and the environment in England. However, as of yet there is no single place or data source within government that makes all of these maps available to view together.The Confederation of British Industry has estimated that even before new infrastructure becomes operational, the building of it will generate £2.84 to the economy for every £1 spent, of which...
Road projects were the biggest winners of the chancellor’s Autumn Statement in December, as George Osborne announced that an additional £5.5bn would be injected into infrastructure.The chancellor announced that £1.5bn would be invested into Britain’s roads – £1.2bn before 2015 – in a number of schemes including the widening of the A1 to Newcastle, the dualling of the A30 in Cornwall and construction of the A5-M1 link.Several other schemes, announced as part of Prime Minister David Cameron’s initiative to cut red tape on projects, will also benefit from the investment in roads. These include...
APM created a new pan-sector standard last March to raise the bar of project professionalism to a whole new level. APM Registered Project Professional (RPP) looks to recognise the value that competent and capable project professionals can offer. This is something that Shell sees as vitally important.The global group of energy and petrochemical companies has been developing its project management capability for 100 years and continues to build a global community of project professionals. The Shell Project Academy (SPA) is at the heart of this drive, providing a world-class competence...
Project management is established as a pan-sector discipline, but are there (or should there be) significant differences between the way it is executed, according to sector?In this web briefing, the online community looked at:Why sector expertise is importantWhy sector experience is less importantThe balance between the twoDownload the web briefing here (69kb)Web briefings are developed from the APM Community, resulting from discussions and questions asked, the content is developed from users’ responses and edited by APM.Web briefings are constantly evolving and we look to the community to...
Chief executive of Network Rail and former chief executive of the London 2012 Summer Olympics Delivery Authority has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by APM at the chairman’s lunch today in celebration of the association's 40th anniversary.Sir David Higgins, along with Simon Kirby and David Waboso from the world transport, picked up the most distinguished honour in project management joining a list of the profession’s most prominent figures.Dame Sue Ion, Stephen Hall and Mike Brown have also been awarded an Honorary Fellowship today for their significant contributions to developing...
DateTuesday 8th November 2011Time8.30am to 9.15am Registration & breakfast5.00pm CloseVenueAberdeen Exhibition & Conference Centre, Bridge of Don, Aberdeen, AB23 8BLPresented byAustin Hand, Project Director, Brent Decommissioning Project, Shell UKSqd Ldr John Sheldon,Search & Rescue (SAR), RAF LossiemouthSteve Jewell, AP-Networks LLCPeter Simon FAPM, PMP, Lucidus Consulting LtdCPDUp to 8 hours. Find out more about CPDCostAPM members £65. Non members £75. Table for 10 £625 - for table bookings please book table online and we will contact you for delegate names. The APM Risk...
The surprise government tax hike on oil and gas revenue has rendered hundreds of potential oil and gas projects ‘uneconomic’, according to a university study.Following news of energy giant Centrica’s plans to extend the shut down of its gas facility at Morcambe Bay – responsible for six per cent of the UK’s annual gas requirements – the study by Aberdeen University lays bay the economic effects of tax increases over the next 30 years.In all 350 undeveloped North Sea sites could be placed at risk, plus ‘very many potential incremental projects’, says the study.The question mark now hanging...
Projects are becoming ever more challenging and diverse. But in the cut and thrust of delivery, the same basic principles remain. Honorary APM Fellow Albert Lester shares his experiences with the next generation.I sometimes wonder how many of today’s project managers quite appreciate the legacy left to us by the large American petrochemical contracting companies who, in the late 1940s, brought to this country what we now call ‘project management’.These companies managed to show British industry, which had an abysmal record of being consistently late, that with good project management, very...
