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Good heuristics lead to better cost estimates with your large, complex project. They can also help you uncover—and mitigate—the risks. By Mark Thompson While giving…
ViewGood heuristics lead to better cost estimates with your large, complex project. They can also help you uncover—and mitigate—the risks. By Mark Thompson While giving…
ViewA tram derailment that killed seven and injured dozens makes a key point about risk tragically clear. ‘It was something no one ever expected…
ViewMeetings between experts are intended to highlight areas of agreement regarding the questions asked of them and their considerations. The output should be a useful…
ViewThe successful bidder was rumoured to be the Gillette Razor company, fuelling the myth that when old ships go to die, they come back as…
ViewIn a recent case, one of our experts was supposed to give testimony in Houston. After much coronavirus-induced postponing, he was summoned. By this time,…
ViewThis Esso ad, which ran from the late 1950s to the oil crisis in the early ’70s, implied a significant performance improvement by injecting the…
ViewWe first got involved in offshore-wind energy projects back in 2010. The Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm, off the Norfolk coast, had been approved in…
View[Ensco DS6, Epeus archive] As drilling contractors look to awaken their deep-sea drilling monsters, can they learn a lesson from The Hobbit? …
ViewMost ordinary folk view carbon-emitting energy and fossil-free alternatives as chalk and cheese. So do politicians. At the project level, though, similarities are everywhere. We’ve…
ViewAs offshore wind demands ever-larger turbines, are the players gambling too much to satisfy their aspirations? Two views of the same project, from owner…
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