29 Dec 2009: America's Failing Transportation Infrastructure
Is America's transportation system failing? In Ken Orski's most recent newsletter, which is one of the best around, the following quote was published from a respected transportation practitioner who had written in to express his frustration with the current political apathy in Washington:
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10 Nov 2009: Feature Publication - Project Perspectives 2010
The International Project Management Association recently published its annual publication, Project Perspectives 2010.
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15 Aug 2009: Global Infrastructure Investment Indices
In the last 18 months, several financial services firms have formed a variety of global infrastructure indices and families of infrastructure sub-indices. However, most of them have been poorly constructed and simply lump together companies from common industry classification codes, and reflect a terribly inadequate understanding of the global infrastructure industry and what institutional investors are actually looking to gain from infrastructure exposure.
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16 Jul 2009: Climate Change Impacts on Infrastructure - A Quick Review of Online Resources
Long-term climate change is no longer just a scientific issue; it is a major trend that will have substantial impact on communities and infrastructure worldwide. Investors and asset managers who hold infrastructure assets in their portfolios are beginning to ask questions about the implications of climate change risks on their portfolio valuations? In order to begin to answer this question, this blog post reviews various online studies and literature about the link between climate change and infrastructure sustainability.
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10 Jul 2009: Outlook For Infrastructure: 2009 And Beyond
Freshfields has published an interesting analysis of the global project finance deal flow pipeline, drawing on data from the Dealogic database, comparing the volume of projects in pre-approval, tender, and financing stages in the U.S. vs. Europe.
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28 Jun 2009: Reflections on a 20 Year Research Program
I must have too much time on my hands, or maybe I am just procrastinating from attending to my pile of finals to be graded. I just read the article below: Integrated Project Delivery and Building Information Modeling go Hand In Hand.
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27 Jun 2009: Project Screening and Selection for Sustainable Development
One of the research areas that I plan to pursue over the coming years is to develop new multi-dimensional methods for project screening and selection. The goal is to develop a more balanced approach to identifying projects that are not only financially viable, but also economically, legally, technically, socially, culturally, environmetally, and politically viable as well!
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14 Jun 2009: PPIAF - Implications of Financial Crisis on Developing Country Project Financings
PPIAF continues to do a terrific job of tracking the impacts of the financial crisis on the rate of closure of project financings across developing countries.
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5 May 2009: Helpful Reviews of the Global PPP Literature
Making sense of the growing body of literature on Public Private Partnerships is a daunting task. Not only are there various scholarly streams, but these also differ greatly by region (US, Europe, etc.). There are two recent articles that I have found very helpful in differentiating between the various streams of research.
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30 Apr 2009: Sea Level Rise: Implications for Construction, Investment, Insurance
Led by the Heinz Center and CERES, a coalition of insurance, government, environmental, and investment organizations released a report, Resilient Coasts: A Blueprint for Action that listed steps the nation can take to drastically reduce rising coastal hazard risks and their associated economic impacts.
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