Drivers of infrastructure delays: What can 480 projects across three continents teach us? Copy | CoST – Infrastructure Transparency Initiative

Drivers of infrastructure delays: What can 480 projects across three continents teach us? Copy | CoST – Infrastructure Transparency Initiative

By Maria da Graça Prado   “Over budget, over time, over and over again.” Professor Bent Flyvbjerg’s striking quote on infrastructure summarises a reality that practitioners across the globe know too well.   The pattern of project overruns has become so familiar that, much like death and taxes, delays and cost overruns are often seen as inevitable in the delivery of infrastructure. While there are global estimates about project cost increases, th…