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Originally Posted by idontknow
Wasn't Boston's Big Dig disaster of a large complex construction project all union labor? As well it was racked with cost and time overruns while having low quality work.
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Glad you asked. By far the best way to lose money on a construction project is to plan and manage it inadequately. That, according to my understanding, is what happened on the Big Dig. It is also what has happened to American auto makers. We can pretend that workers messed the project up, but in nearly twenty years of doing my job I have never heard a construction company reach this conclusion. Someone else might. Like for example, somebody sitting in an office somewhere, chatting on the Internet. But nobody in the construction industry is very confused. The difference between a good/successful project and a bad one is planning and project administration/management. Blaming disasters on the workers is like blaming your poor track times on the track. "The track has too many corners......"