1

st

workshop: Megaprojects: Theory meets Practice

London, 12-13 September

Organisers: Nuno Gil, Professor of New Infrastructure Development Andrew Davies, Professor of the Management of Projects

WHO ARE WE?

• Scholars in built environment schools • Scholars in business schools • Practitioners: working for clients, for the project supply chains, for governmental authorities

OUR GOALS

• Advancing shared understanding on an important socio economic phenomenon – megaprojects • Learn from different research perspectives: organization design, innovation, design, project management, institutions, etc.

• Invigorate theoretically rigorous research empirically grounded on megaprojects • Bring theory and practice together- be rigorous and relevant

DEBATE IMPORTANT ISSUES

• What form of organization are megaprojects? • How does innovation, design happens in megaprojects?

• Why has ‘lean’ struggled to make inroads in megaprojects?

• Have strategic misrepresentation and optimism bias made a disservice to our understanding of megaprojects? • What are the challenges in using megaproject phenomena for advancing management & organization theory?

• What value can megaproject grounded-theory have to the megaproject practice?

OUR PROGRAMME: Thursday morning

9.30-10.30 (presentations)

- Alfons van Marrewijk ( VU University Amsterdam) Organizing Mega-projects:

Understanding their Cultural Practices

- Nuno Gil (MBS): What is a (mega)design commons?

10.30-11.00 (break)

11.00-12.30 (presentations and panel discussion) - Don Lessard (MIT): Project Shaping and Risk Management (via skype) - William Wu (Imperial College Business School), Andrew Davies (UCL), Lars Frederiksen (Aarhus University): Designing an Ecocity: Building Capabilities

in a Nascent Market

- Gernot Grabher, Joachim Thiel (HafenCity University of Hamburg): Projects,

People and Professions: Trajectories of Learning through Mega-Projects

12.30-14.00 (Lunch)

OUR PROGRAMME: Thursday afternoon

14.00-15.30 (presentations) Sam Macaulay (Imperial College Business School), Andrew Davies (UCL): Constructing Innovation

Strategy in Megaprojects

Colm Lundrigan, Nuno Gil (MBS): Megaprojects: A Hybrid, evolving meta-organisation Jennifer Whyte (Reading University): Digital delivery of megaprojects 15.30-16.00 (Break) 16.00-17.00 (Presentations and Panel Discussion) Richard Tee (EPFL), Andrew Davies (UCL), Jennifer Whyte (Reading): Modular Components,

Integrated Practices: Managing Interdependence in Temporary Organizations

Tyrone Pitsis (Newcastle Business School) The Immaculate Conception: Why we need some

miracles (cancelled)

17.00-18.00 (Discussion) Andrea Prencipe, LUISS & Gernot Grabher, HafenCity University of Hamburg

DINNER: Bacco Restaurant & wine bar (25-26 Red Lion Street, Holborn)

OUR PROGRAMME: Friday

9.00-09.15 (Introduction) Don Ward, Constructing Excellence CEO 09.15-09.45 Key note speaker Sir John Armitt, Chairman, Olympic Delivery Authority 09.45-10.30 (Presentations ) Jason Prior, Global Head of Building & Places, AECOM Simon Kirby, Managing Director of Infrastructure Projects, Network Rail 10.30-11.00 (Coffee) 11.00-12.30 (Presentations & Panel Discussion) Ailie MacAdam, Delivery Director, Crossrail/Bechtel Steven Livingston, T2 Programme Director, Heathrow Ltd.

Roy Hill, Project Director, High Speed 2 Ltd/ CH2M HILL 12.30-13.30 (Lunch) 13.30-14.30 (Closing debate)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

AECOM (Jason Prior, Paul Dyson, & team) Constructing Excellence (Don Ward) Centre for Infrastructure Development (Manchester) School of Construction &Property Development (UCL) Our distinguished speakers All participants