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Project development budgeting rule of thumb
Go ahead, do your sums, and make your plans in great detail. Figure out your critical path. Then take those refined numbers for your preparation budget and double them. Take your development schedule and triple it. In so doing you will get close to the actual outcome.
Cheap, Fast, Good. Pick two.
You can’t have it all ways. If you want fast and good, it ain’t going to be cheap. If you want cheap and fast, it ain’t going to be good. You see what I mean? Thus, you need to go into a project with your open eyes and a reality-based …
P3 is NOT privatization! Stop saying it. It is a concession.
Please, please, please stop using the “P” word. “Privatization.” No, really, just stop! If you are already saying it in the same sentence as public-private partnership or, worse, in place of P3, drop it immediately! Force yourself and your organization to change its vocabulary. You are already shooting the concept …
Why can’t our transit system be like Europe’s? Thanks to a recent USDOT rule change, maybe now it can.
by Grant Hauber, Infradvice.com
What Star Wars can teach us about the future of the power grid
What Star Wars can teach us about the future of the power grid Distributed generation and microgrids may just be the droids we are looking for. By J. Grant Hauber, Managing Director, Hauber Global Advisors LLC Renewable vs conventional energy. David vs Goliath. Old school vs upstarts. The ongoing debate …
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