The headlines said it all-on March 22, 2016, the LA Times headline read, "Huge Cost Overruns on High Speed Rail." On May, 25, 2016, the Boston Globe reported, "Massive Delays to Anderson Bridge." Project delays and cost overruns are endemic as public works acts to deliver public projects with ever-diminishing resources in an environment of public skepticism, staff cutbacks, and funding challenges. Agencies have become more and more dependent on the consultant community to provide project planning, design, and construction oversight. When the projects are completed, the consultants leave and take their expertise with them. How can we reverse this trend? Get tips for developing and sustaining an organization culture for project delivery; provide better oversight of consultants; develop strong agency project managers; manage a non-performing consultant; and deal with permitting agencies, the public, and other interests.

Learning Objectives:
Describe the state of project delivery amid the challenges facing public projects in today's climate.
Recognize and take action to correct project delivery shortfalls.
Develop strategies to better deliver public projects.

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Michael S. Ellegood, PE

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