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Completing the "Big Dig"

Author : Transportation Research Board
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309088879
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Completing the "Big Dig" written by Transportation Research Board and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-03-21 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boston's Central Artery/Tunnel Project, a 7.8 mile system of bridges and underground highways and ramps, is the most expensive public works project ever undertaken in the United States. The original cost estimate of $2.6 billion has already been exceeded by $12 billion, and the project will not be completed until 2005, seven years late. The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority (MTA), the public steward of the project, requested that the National Research Council carry out an independent assessment of the project's management and contract administration practices, with a focus on the present situation and measures that should be taken to bring the project to a successful conclusion. This report presents the committee's findings and recommendations pertaining to cost, scheduling, and transitioning from the current organization dominated by consultants to an operations organization composed largely of full-time MTA staff. The report recommends that MTA establish an external, independent, peer-review program to address technical and management issues until the transition to operations and maintenance is complete; begin a media campaign now to teach drivers how to use the new system safely; and develop, immediately implement, and maintain a comprehensive security program.

The Big Dig

Author : Dan McNichol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Big Dig written by Dan McNichol and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boston's Big Dig: the largest urban construction project in the history of the modern world.

Tiny and the Big Dig

Author : Sherri Duskey Rinker
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338257188
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Tiny and the Big Dig written by Sherri Duskey Rinker and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestselling powerhouse team presents a doggie, a bone, and tons of determination to remind us that going for what you want brings ginormous surprises. Sniff! Sniff-sniff!I smell a bone. A bone that's BIG.I'll get it out, I'll dig and dig.A big, BIG bone! I know it's there!It will take work, but I don't care!Tiny may be a small dog, but don't let that fool you. He's a pooch with power who knows what he wants. And he's going for it. But oh, those pesky pessimists -- they're trying to rain on Tiny's dig-parade! Thank goodness for one special boy who believes in Tiny, because in the end, this dog's grit proves that he's the little pup who could... dig up some giant surprises!

Big Dig

Author : Paul Stickland
Publisher : Handprint Books
ISBN 13 : 9781929927418
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (274 download)

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Download or read book Big Dig written by Paul Stickland and published by Handprint Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heavy machinery rumbles into action when Paul Stickland brings his pop-up wizardry to a building site. Bulldozers, cement-mixers, cranes and more appear in seven exciting spreads with a magnificent fold-out finale. Stickland's talent lies not only in engineering brilliant pop-ups but in accurately portraying the details of machinery with warmth and wit. A lilting, chant-aloud text makes this a book kids will demand again and again, and the sturdy, self-activating pops make for a book far more destruction-resistant than most pop-ups.

Megaproject Management

Author : Virginia A. Greiman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118115473
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Megaproject Management written by Virginia A. Greiman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project management lessons learned on the Big Dig, America's biggest megaproject, by a core member responsible for its daily operations In Megaproject Management, a central member of the Big Dig team reveals the numerous risks, challenges, and accomplishments of the most complex urban infrastructure project in the history of the United States. Drawing on personal experience and interviews with project engineers, executive oversight commission officials, and core managers, the author, a former deputy counsel and risk manager for the Big Dig, develops new insights as she describes the realities of day-to-day management of the project from a project manager's perspective. The book incorporates both theory and practice and is therefore highly recommended to policymakers, academics, and project management practitioners. Focusing on lessons learned, this insightful coursebook presents the Big Dig as a massive case study in the management of risk, cost, and schedule, particularly the interrelation of technical, legal, political, and social factors. It provides an analysis of the difficulties in managing megaprojects during each phase and over the life span of the project, while delivering useful lessons on why projects go wrong and what can be done to prevent project failure. It also offers new ideas to enhance project management performance and innovation in our global society. This unique guide: Defines megaproject characteristics and frameworks Reviews the Big Dig's history, stakeholders, and governance Examines the project's management scope, scheduling, and cost management—including project delays and cost overruns Analyzes the Big Dig's risk management and quality management Reveals how to build a sustainable project through integration and change introduction

In DEFENSE of the BIG DIG: How Politics Affected the Planning, Design and Construction of the Boston Central Artery/Tunnel Project

Author : Orikaye G. Brown-West
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1430312653
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book In DEFENSE of the BIG DIG: How Politics Affected the Planning, Design and Construction of the Boston Central Artery/Tunnel Project written by Orikaye G. Brown-West and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-09-06 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the planning, design and construction of the Big Dig, Boston's Central Artery and Tunnel project from a personal perspective. This most complex and technologically challenging project is a paradox of praises and blame. This book defends the professionals who planned, designed and constructed it; and blames the politics of project planning for the shortcomings.

The Big Dig

Author : Linda Barnes
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504057058
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Big Dig written by Linda Barnes and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boston PI excavates her city’s buried secrets in this “shrewd . . . smartly told” thriller by the Anthony Award–winning author (The New York Times). Six-foot-tall, redheaded ex-cop and Boston-based private eye Carlotta Carlyle is “the genuine article: a straightforward, funny, thoroughly American mystery heroine” (New York Post). Boston’s largest urban renewal undertaking in modern history draws Carlotta into an undercover gig at the site. It comes at the request of a disgruntled hardhat who suspects the multibillion-dollar project has set off a groundswell of graft, kickbacks, and fraud. The case hasn’t unearthed anything but dirt, so Carlotta is tempted into moonlighting on another: a Beacon Street socialite who’s deeply concerned about her vanishing tenant, a dog groomer named Veronica James. Since there’s no possible way Veronica would run off without her beloved Norwegian wolfhound, Carlotta’s suspicions are definitely aroused. And when her big-dig informant falls to his death in a highly dubious accident, Carlotta’s torn between two disparate investigations: an unlikely kidnapping and a likely murder . . . Until they begin to converge, “and watching Carlotta tease out their deep, disturbing connections is pure pleasure” (Kirkus Reviews). The Big Dig is the 9th book in the Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Public Works

Author : Jeannie Meejin Yoon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Public Works written by Jeannie Meejin Yoon and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by J. Meejin Yoon, Meredith Miller.

Florida's Big Dig

Author : William G. Crawford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Florida's Big Dig written by William G. Crawford and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the story of people of vision and courage, of a small group of prominent Saint Augustine investors who conceived of the Florida waterway and began the first dredging work; of an obscure group of New England capitalists who provided significant financing and obtained a million acres of undeveloped Florida public land in pursuing what was, at best, a speculative enterprise; of innumerable citizen groups like the Florida east coast chamber associations and the larger Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association that demanded at the turn of the last century what they believed was the peoples right-a public waterway, free of the burden of tolls; and finally, of the U>S> Army Corps of Engineers, who conducted all of the Florida waterway's early surveys and assumed the project's control in 1929 to convert what was once a private toll way into Florida's modern-day, toll-free Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.

The Big Dig

Author : Peter Vanderwarker
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780316605984
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Big Dig written by Peter Vanderwarker and published by Little Brown & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the development of the city of Boston and the reasons for creating the Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel Project--known as "the big dig"--and outlines each step in its planning and construction.

Big Dig Excavation Kit

Author : Scholastic Inc.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781338323047
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Big Dig Excavation Kit written by Scholastic Inc. and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dora's Big Dig

Author : Alison Inches
Publisher : Simon Spolight/Nickelodeon
ISBN 13 : 9781847380470
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Dora's Big Dig written by Alison Inches and published by Simon Spolight/Nickelodeon. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dora and Boots go looking for treasure.

Daisy's Big Dig

Author : Angie Morgan
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9781847804631
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Daisy's Big Dig written by Angie Morgan and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How one little girl gathers together all the different people and families in her street, to help one old man dig his garden - and how the resulting Digging Party has far-reaching results for the community. No one really knows each other in Daisy's street. But when Mr Hofmeister falls ill, she is determined to help him out and get the neighbors involved. Invitations go out, hinting at buried treasure, and one special day the two Daves, the Lemming family, Mrs Benjamin and Professor Flowerdew all come together to dig the old man's garden and look for the treasure. And do they find treasure? Well yes, but not quite what anyone expected!

Dora's Big Dig (Dora the Explorer)

Author : Nickelodeon Publishing
Publisher : Nickelodeon Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1612632572
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Dora's Big Dig (Dora the Explorer) written by Nickelodeon Publishing and published by Nickelodeon Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dora the Explorer uncovers an ancient treasure and she wants to show it to her mami right away! Join Dora and Boots for an exciting adventure and find out what the treasure really is!

The Dig

Author : John Preston
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590517806
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Dig written by John Preston and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BASIS FOR THE NETFLIX FILM STARRING CAREY MULLIGAN, RALPH FIENNES, AND LILY JAMES A literary adventure that tells the story of a priceless buried treasure discovered in England on the eve of World War II In the long, hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war, but on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind. Mrs. Pretty, the widowed owner of the farm, has had her hunch confirmed that the mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary find. This fictional recreation of the famed Sutton Hoo dig follows three months of intense activity when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs, and love and rivalry flourished in equal measure. As the war looms ever closer, engraved gold peeks through the soil, and each character searches for answers in the buried treasure. Their threads of love, loss, and aspiration weave a common awareness of the past as something that can never truly be left behind.

Sam and Dave Dig a Hole

Author : Mac Barnett
Publisher : Candlewick
ISBN 13 : 0763662291
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book Sam and Dave Dig a Hole written by Mac Barnett and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2015 Caldecott Honor Book With perfect pacing, the multi-award-winning, New York Times best-selling team of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen dig down for a deadpan tale full of visual humor. Sam and Dave are on a mission. A mission to find something spectacular. So they dig a hole. And they keep digging. And they find . . . nothing. Yet the day turns out to be pretty spectacular after all. Attentive readers will be rewarded with a rare treasure in this witty story of looking for the extraordinary — and finding it in a manner you’d never expect.

The Dig

Author : Cynan Jones
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566893941
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Dig written by Cynan Jones and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jones's sense of place is acute, and his passion for the landscape—for its colors, its creatures, its textures, its scents—is absolutely magnetic."—Sarah Waters "A dark, tense, and vital short novel. . . . Profound, powerful, and utterly absorbing."—The Guardian "It is a book about the essentials: life and death, cruelty and compassion. It is a book that will get in your bones, and haunt you."—Daily Telegraph "Cynan Jones's fourth novel, The Dig, is an extraordinarily powerful work—not in spite of its brevity but because of it. . . . In its marriage of profound lyricism and feeling for place, deep human compassion and unflinching savagery, this brief and beautiful novel is utterly unique."—Financial Times Built of the interlocking fates of a badger-baiter and a farmer struggling through lambing season, The Dig unfolds in a stark rural setting where man, animal, and land are at loggerheads. There is no bucolic pastoral here: this is pure, pared-down rural realism, crackling with compressed energy, from a writer of uncommon gifts. Cynan Jones was born near Aberaeron, Wales, in 1975. He is the author of three novels, The Long Dry (winner of a Betty Trask Award, 2007), Everything I Found on the Beach (2011), and The Dig (2014), winner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. He is also the author of Bird, Blood, Snow (2012), the retelling of a medieval Welsh myth. The Dig is his first novel published in the United States.