Qatar’s ‘cool pavement’ project to reduce city temperatures The Qatar city of Doha will be home to a pilot project using cryogenic material to reduce road temperatures.
New ‘smart infrastructure’ project aims to revolutionise UK roads Buckinghamshire County Council and Lancaster University’s Department of Engineering have launched an incredibly ambitious infrastructure project – one that has implications beyond just the roads we drive on.
Elon Musk unveils plan to build his own AI ‘human brain’ Elon Musk’s latest project is to replicate the human brain using artificial intelligence (AI).
I suppose it is not much of a surprise to hear that here, at the Value Management Special interest Group (SIG), we've become quite interested in noticing where value comes from.
Developing the Practice of Governance is the Association for Project Management’s contribution to the Infrastructure and Projects Authority’s Project X to identify the real-world issues that affect projects and programmes.
*Update from 2021, the EHT collaboration have a new view of the black hole in polarized light; a great feat for the science community.
Sharing practical tips, personal stories (both good and bad) and new ideas on how women can get ahead in the project profession is what WiPM is all about, and the 2022 conference – the first in-person meet-up for four years – was buzzing with inspiration.
As each day brings fresh evidence of the pressing need to prioritise government spending and of the inherent difficulties in doing so, the case for effective portfolio management becomes ever stronger.
Too often in the construction industry, all-important client outcomes are lost in a sea of contractual wrangling that can be conflict-ridden, overwhelmed by complex jargon or disregarded due to the approach of ‘well, it’s always been done this way’.
Escalation should never be a threat or a punishment; escalation should be for the benefit of the organisation, says David Hamilton Have you ever looked at a project or a workstream that is not going anywhere and thought to yourself, ‘why hasn’t this been escalated?’ We all know that, sometimes, projects need to be escalated to a senior level to get decisions made or things unblocked.