http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/ en-us Copyright 2009 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:10:30 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.01 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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. http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_global_infrastructure_investment_indices.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_global_infrastructure_investment_indices.html Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:10:30 -0800 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. http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_climate_change_impacts_on_infrastructure_a_quick_review_of_online_resources.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_climate_change_impacts_on_infrastructure_a_quick_review_of_online_resources.html Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:43:36 -0800 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. http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_outlook_for_infrastructure_2009_and_beyond_.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_outlook_for_infrastructure_2009_and_beyond_.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:28:55 -0800 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. http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_reflections_on_a_20_year_research_program.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_reflections_on_a_20_year_research_program.html Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:21:54 -0800 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! http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_project_screening_and_selection_for_sustainable_development.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_project_screening_and_selection_for_sustainable_development.html Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:42:41 -0800 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. http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_ppiaf_implications_of_financial_crisis_on_developing_country_project_financings.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_ppiaf_implications_of_financial_crisis_on_developing_country_project_financings.html Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:05:15 -0800 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. http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_helpful_reviews_of_the_global_ppp_literature.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_helpful_reviews_of_the_global_ppp_literature.html Tue, 05 May 2009 17:40:52 -0800 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. ]]> http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_sea_level_rise_implications_for_construction_investment_insurance.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_sea_level_rise_implications_for_construction_investment_insurance.html Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:04:00 -0800 A note from a friend at Fluor, on "Giga Programs" -- massive new developments of the future! http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_giga_programs_and_development.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_giga_programs_and_development.html Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:18:40 -0800 Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History". Once you get past the lengthy title, you will find within the book a wonderful analytic framework for understanding the critical institutional differences that separate the relatively small set of so-called "open-access societies" from the much larger set of so-called "natural states".]]> http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_new_book_by_douglass_north_with_implications_for_development_and_investment.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_new_book_by_douglass_north_with_implications_for_development_and_investment.html Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:15:39 -0800 One might call the Obama stimulus package the "great bait and switch". What do I mean? When the American public endorsed the stimulus package in October, the stock market had just collapsed, comparisons were being drawn to the great depression, and a sense of nostalgia for Roosevelt's "new deal" had swept widely across the country. http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_how_the_stimulus_package_stacks_up_for_construction.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_how_the_stimulus_package_stacks_up_for_construction.html Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:32:58 -0800 powerpoint slide set presents the highlights of the just-completed analysis from our study on the causes of legal and political conflict related to the development of international energy pipeline projects. A working paper will be available early next year when the first paper on the social movement findings from the work is ready to be submitted to a journal. Other papers are currently in the works. ]]> http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_open_letter_with_an_update_on_our_ngo_and_governance_study.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_open_letter_with_an_update_on_our_ngo_and_governance_study.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:13:49 -0800 http://transportation.house.gov/Media/File/Full%20Committee/20081029/SSM_FC.pdf ]]> http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_sector_by_sector_analysis_of_infrastructure_need_in_america.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_sector_by_sector_analysis_of_infrastructure_need_in_america.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:07:23 -0800 Some interesting ideas contained in this report by Douglas Elmendorf at Brookings Institution. http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_an_economic_strategy_for_investing_in_americas_infrastructure.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_an_economic_strategy_for_investing_in_americas_infrastructure.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:25:47 -0800 http://www.asce.org/reportcard/2005/index.cfm

Earlier this year following our Roundtable on Renewing California's Infrastructure we prepared a whitepaper summarizing the challenges in California and the way forward for the infrastructure sector. Here is an excerpt of that paper, which, given the present discussions at the national level, is relevant not just to California but also to many other states as well: ]]> http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_implications_of_america_s_infrastructure_problems.html http://crgp.stanford.edu/news/global_projects_implications_of_america_s_infrastructure_problems.html Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:29:05 -0800