The first phase of the UK’s High Speed 2 rail scheme, from London to Birmingham and Crewe, received formal government backing after the Oakervee Review recommended in February that the controversial project should continue “on balance”.
Change happens on projects, and that means parties can easily be drawn into fighting over the cost, time scale and other impacts of the change rather than delivering what the client wants.
In this series, project managers tell us how they’re using their skills for a personal project.
The Department for Transport’s (DfT’s) successful mission to repatriate 140,000 holidaymakers from around the globe, following the collapse of the world’s oldest holiday company in September 2019, is a lesson in putting strong communication at the heart of a project.
Interview: Emma De Vita “All explorers are storytellers.
Mid-Cornwall’s china-clay country can be a forbidding place.
Meet APM’s Young Project Professional of the Year, Jacob Achenbach, whose work at Rolls-Royce on a mission-critical project gave him the opportunity to fly high.
To coincide with APM’s new Projecting the Future challenge paper, we asked project managers what they will be focusing on in the 2020s.
In February, the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus outbreak started, began admitting patients to a quarantined hospital with 1,000 beds within just 10 days of breaking ground on the project.
Over the past year, we have kept focused on our priorities to help build the capability of the project profession despite political and economic turbulence.
