Amazon, Apple, Google and others have recently announced huge developments and investments for their new headquarters. However, with such huge requirements in terms of land, materials, and technology, it’s often staggering to comprehend just how these projects come to fruition and how we, as project managers, can even start overseeing such huge scale schemes. How important is it to take into consideration technological solutions from the beginning, what are the benefits and what can you achieve?

Firstly, let’s focus on the challenges.

Essentially, within mega structures and developments, there will be many more workstreams involved compared to a normal project. Mega structures will follow a stage/phased approach, similar to what is used in a smaller scheme (the brief, design, procurement, construction and handover phases) however on a larger site, there will be multiple projects, stacked or nested with interdependencies; this will add further complexity to the process. All projects are based on a phased approach with tollgates, decision and approval points, so actions need to be completed before the developments can pass through to the next stage. However, with multiple projects, these phases overlap and are co-dependent.

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