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16-05-2013Delivering Major Projects in Brazil
02-05-2013Developing Leaders for Major Projects – a global challenge across all sectors
17-04-2013Responding to the National Infrastructure Plan: HS2 as a case study
13-03-2013Collaborative working on Major Projects
20-02-2013Are we any good at Project Controls - what are the cross-sector challenges for the future?
07-11-2012Are Carbon Neutral Projects Achievable
19-09-2012Choosing the right delivery model
06-09-2012Delivering Public Projects - What is best practice?
26-06-2012Innovation - Taking a balanced view on the opportunity
17-05-2012The Digital World and Major Projects - what will be different?
18-04-2012Global Cities - opportunities and challenges for major projects
15-03-2012Disaster Planning, Crisis Management and Recovery
23-02-2012Thames Tunnel - From Lessons to Planning
16-11-2011What makes an Intelligent Client?
02-11-2011London Games - From Construction to Commissioning
21-09-2011The Productivity Challenge for Transformational Change Programmes
26-05-2011Question Time: What's Project Management ever done for Major Projects?
12-05-2011The challenges of delivering renewable energy projects - using examples of offshore wind
23-03-2011The regulated project - delivering in regulated industries
16-02-2011Crossrail - lessons for initiating large public sector projects
20-01-2011Identify and manage project success
17-11-2010All Change at King's Cross – Urban Renewal and Transport Improvements
02-11-2010Waste - opportunities and best practice
22-09-201028th Annual Conference - Project Personality Matters
09-09-2010Mobilising Global Resources to deliver major projects
10-06-2010Driving the UKs Motorways to success
12-05-2010London Games - gold medal project delivery
18-03-2010Supply Chain Management - benefits for all
24-02-2010Governance and Risk - being wise before the event
03-02-2010Innovation in the Management of Major Projects
19-11-2009Managing Government as the Client
03-11-2009The changing faces of Procurement
23-09-200927th Annual Conference, Sustaining the UK's Energy - preparing for the big agenda
16-06-2009Success is "soft" people skills
14-05-2009Power Generation in a Developing Economy - an international experience from South Africa
31-03-2009Managing Complexity in Major Projects
24-02-2009The Planning Act 2008
05-02-2009The Future of Major Projects
04-12-2008Beyond the London Games
12-11-2008The Investor, the Board and Major Projects
23-09-200826th Annual Conference - Regenerating London - examples from major cities
03-06-2008The Private Delivery of Public Services
14-05-2008Testing and Commissioning
23-04-2008Britain needs the best Project Managers: Where will they come from?
19-03-2008Sustainability, Climate Change And Carbon Footprint
07-02-2008Delivering High speed 1: The Successes and the Lessons
05-12-2007The Growing influence of IT on major projects
14-11-2007The Importance of Starting Well
23-10-2007T5 Case Study Seminar
19-09-200725th Annual Conference - The Impact of Contracts on Project Behaviour and Outcome
12-06-2007Nuclear Decommissioning Moves Ahead
01-05-2007Is The Secret of Successful Projects in The Management of Design and Engineering
18-04-2007Benefits Management and the Business Case
13-03-2007Managing The Resource Gap
30-01-2007The Application of Technology in Managing Demand
05-12-2006Management Styles and Leadership
15-11-2006Learning Lessons from Completed Projects
18-10-2006Rethinking Project Management
19-09-200624th Annual Conference - Making Project Risk Management Work
20-06-2006The London Games - Managing Delivery
07-06-2006Managing Dispersed Project Teams
06-04-2006Corruption - Damage, Risk and Prevention
22-03-2006Managing Changes in Projects
28-02-2006A New Generation of Nuclear Power Stations - Are we Ready?
02-02-2006How can MPA Member Organisations Make Better Use of UK Academic Resources
17-11-2005Change Management
28-09-200523rd Annual Conference - Sensible clients get sensible projects
06-07-2005Corporate Responsibility
24-05-2005Risk transfer and allocation in PFI / PPP projects
17-05-2005Stakeholder Management
20-04-2005Lessons from a Major IT Project
10-03-2005The International Market Now
16-02-2005The Project Manager's Tool Kit - Time to Move on?
16-11-2004Managing Joint Ventures and Alliances
29-09-200422nd Annual Conference - Developing the People Resource
24-06-2004Financial Management in Major Project Businesses
18-05-2004The Channel Tunnel Rail Link
22-04-2004Strategic Planning of Major Projects
21-01-2004Major Project in a Volatile Environment: Lessons from the Telecoms Sector
13-11-2003Learning from Project Failures
24-09-200321st Annual Conference - PFI/PPP Projects - are they Working?
12-06-2003The Management of Unexpected Projects
13-05-2003Cleaning up the UK
26-02-2003Lessons from High Technology Development Projects
23-01-2003Bringing Change to a Dynamic Business: The BBC Property Outsourcing Project
15-11-2002Creating a Workforce Fit to Deliver Major Projects
19-09-200220th Annual Conference - The Management of Change
21-06-2002Supply-Chain Management
22-05-2002The Americans and the French: Do They Do It Better?
25-04-2002Crossrail
12-03-2002Systems Integration for Major Projects
17-01-2002Alliancing/Partnering
07-11-2001Canary Wharf
27-09-200119th Annual Conference - Setting Objectives and Understanding the Client's Business
19-06-2001Transfer of Project Management Competence within and Across Organisations
23-05-2001Effective Teams for Complex Projects
25-04-2001Hong Kong International Airport
16-03-2001The Impact of E-Commerce
23-01-2001The Smart Procurement Initiative - "Faster, Cheaper, Better"
17-11-2000The Jubilee Line Extension
28-09-200018th Annual Conference - The Client/Designer Interface
29-06-2000Strategic Use of insurance in Complex Projects
06-06-2000Project Recovery - Breaking the Cycle of Failure
13-03-2000The Newbury Bypass
18-01-2000Major Projects in a Changing Financial World
29-11-1999Managing High Technology and Innovative Projects
12-11-1999The Channel Tunnel Rail Link
28-09-199917th Annual Conference - Managing the Environmental Risks to Major Projects
19-05-1999So Where Do We Stand Now?
29-04-1999The Learning Organisation
23-03-1999Heathrow Express
29-01-1999Dealing with the Millennium Bug - Lessons for Major Projects
03-12-1998Current State of Liability for Environmental Risks
29-09-199816th Annual Conference - Managing Major Event Projects
18-06-1998Risk and Contingency Management
19-05-1998Project Evaluation
04-03-1998The Great Man - Made River Project in Libya
11-02-1998Private Finance in Cultural Contexts
21-01-1998Managing Completion Risks
04-12-1997From Dreaming to Doing - How Projects Happen
25-09-199715th Annual Conference - Dimensions of IT
19-06-1997The South African Experience
28-05-1997Tsing Ma Bridge
20-02-1997A New Age of Rail?
02-12-1996Decommissioning Major Projects
25-09-199614th Annual Conference - National Approaches to Transport Integration
17-06-1996Social Costs and Benefits
22-04-1996Surfing the Private Finance Initiative
22-02-1996The Hub Power Project
04-12-1995Partnering: Competition v Cooperation
26-10-199513th Annual Conference - The Changing World of Risks
01-09-1995Network Infrastructure
27-07-1995Integrated Project Management Systems
27-03-1995Thailand and Indo-China
19-01-1995Nuclear Waste Disposal
05-12-1994Sizewell B: A Case Study
27-10-199412th Annual Conference - Making Major Projects Happen
14-09-1994The Management of Difficult Projects
08-09-1994The Impact of Environmental Health-and-Safety Factors on Major Projects
14-07-1994Road Privatization
16-03-1994Topical Issues in Project Financing in Eastern and Western Europe
06-12-1993Technology and Telecommunications
28-10-199311th Annual Conference - An Integrated Transport Policy
01-09-1993Major Projects in South America
29-07-1993Asian Idioms of Capitalism
28-06-1993Nuclear Power: The Future
26-04-1993Management of Safety-Critical Systems
22-02-1993The Peace Dividend
14-01-1993Russia and Eastern Europe
11-12-1992Asian Infrastructure Projects
29-10-199210th Annual Conference - Removing Barriers to Long-term Major Projects
02-09-1992The Environment and Global Warming
31-07-1992Project Sovereign
29-06-1992Major Projects in the Leisure Industry
28-02-1992Major Projects in Hong Kong
12-12-1991The Bangladesh KAFCO Project
11-09-19919th Annual Conference - Privatizing British Rail and British Coal
06-06-1991Getting Major Infrastructure Projects Off the Ground
11-04-1991Potential Major Projects Underground
27-02-1991Cleaning up the Mediterranean
13-12-1990Air Transport Infrastructure
26-09-19908th Annual Conference - The Changing Context of Major Projects
29-05-1990Hazardous Waste
19-04-1990The Occasional Major Project Owner/Sponsor
14-12-1989Project Opportunities in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc
27-09-19897th Annual Conference - L'Europe Pour Qui?: European Major Projects in the 1990's
22-06-1989Tornado: A Case Study of a Major Defence Project
06-04-1989The Privatization of the Electricity Supply Industry
13-02-1989Why Design? The Role of Design in Major Projects
08-12-1988The International Commercial Exploitation of Advanced Technology
26-09-19886th Annual Conference - Communications Horizons
02-06-1988Risk Assessment in Initiating Information Technology Projects
14-04-1988Current Changes in Contracting Practice
18-02-1988Boot for Britain?
10-12-1987Organizational Implications of large Information Technology Projects - Big Bang
28-09-19875th Annual Conference - The Planning and Inquiry Process and Infrastructure Projects
28-06-1987The Finance and Organisation of European Space Projects
02-04-1987International Negotiation
20-02-1987The Redevelopment of London's Docklands
04-12-1986The People Factor in Managing Major Projects
29-09-19864th Annual Conference - International Collaboration
13-06-1986Technology and the Management of Major Projects
06-04-1986The Preconditions of Success and Failure in Major Projects
06-02-1986Projects in the Near Future
05-12-1985Why Major Projects go Wrong
30-09-19853rd Annual Conference - The Japanese Approach
14-06-1985Political Risk in the Major Project - What does it Mean?
11-04-1985The Broad Problems Facing Owners on Giant Megaprojects - Past and Future
10-01-1985Overcoming Delays in Major Projects
06-12-1984Port of Jebal Ali
04-10-1984Management - Monitoring or Interference?
01-07-19842nd Annual Conference - The Application of Scenario Planning to Major Projects
15-06-1984The Division of Risk Between The Equity Shareholders and the Consortium
26-04-1984Joint European Torus the Special Problems of Advanced Technology Projects
05-01-1984The Balance of Experience and Uncertainty in Major Projects
15-12-1983The Thames Barrier
06-10-1983Negotiation of Construction Projects
01-06-1983Criteria of viability in current major projects
12-05-1983Catastrophe Risks
06-01-1983The Concorde Project
09-12-1982Relationships and Motivation in International Projects
29-10-1982Causes of Effects of Delay in Major Projects
08-07-1982Oil and Gas Financing
01-06-1982The British Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor Programme
19-04-1982Unresolved Problems of Project Organisation
26-02-1982Unresolved Problems of Risk
27-01-1982Risks in International Project Finance
10-12-1981The Channel Tunnel The Lessons of 1970 To 1975
02-05-2013Developing Leaders for Major Projects – a global challenge across all sectors
17-04-2013Responding to the National Infrastructure Plan: HS2 as a case study
13-03-2013Collaborative working on Major Projects
20-02-2013Are we any good at Project Controls - what are the cross-sector challenges for the future?
07-11-2012Are Carbon Neutral Projects Achievable
19-09-2012Choosing the right delivery model
06-09-2012Delivering Public Projects - What is best practice?
26-06-2012Innovation - Taking a balanced view on the opportunity
17-05-2012The Digital World and Major Projects - what will be different?
18-04-2012Global Cities - opportunities and challenges for major projects
15-03-2012Disaster Planning, Crisis Management and Recovery
23-02-2012Thames Tunnel - From Lessons to Planning
16-11-2011What makes an Intelligent Client?
02-11-2011London Games - From Construction to Commissioning
21-09-2011The Productivity Challenge for Transformational Change Programmes
26-05-2011Question Time: What's Project Management ever done for Major Projects?
12-05-2011The challenges of delivering renewable energy projects - using examples of offshore wind
23-03-2011The regulated project - delivering in regulated industries
16-02-2011Crossrail - lessons for initiating large public sector projects
20-01-2011Identify and manage project success
17-11-2010All Change at King's Cross – Urban Renewal and Transport Improvements
02-11-2010Waste - opportunities and best practice
22-09-201028th Annual Conference - Project Personality Matters
09-09-2010Mobilising Global Resources to deliver major projects
10-06-2010Driving the UKs Motorways to success
12-05-2010London Games - gold medal project delivery
18-03-2010Supply Chain Management - benefits for all
24-02-2010Governance and Risk - being wise before the event
03-02-2010Innovation in the Management of Major Projects
19-11-2009Managing Government as the Client
03-11-2009The changing faces of Procurement
23-09-200927th Annual Conference, Sustaining the UK's Energy - preparing for the big agenda
16-06-2009Success is "soft" people skills
14-05-2009Power Generation in a Developing Economy - an international experience from South Africa
31-03-2009Managing Complexity in Major Projects
24-02-2009The Planning Act 2008
05-02-2009The Future of Major Projects
04-12-2008Beyond the London Games
12-11-2008The Investor, the Board and Major Projects
23-09-200826th Annual Conference - Regenerating London - examples from major cities
03-06-2008The Private Delivery of Public Services
14-05-2008Testing and Commissioning
23-04-2008Britain needs the best Project Managers: Where will they come from?
19-03-2008Sustainability, Climate Change And Carbon Footprint
07-02-2008Delivering High speed 1: The Successes and the Lessons
05-12-2007The Growing influence of IT on major projects
14-11-2007The Importance of Starting Well
23-10-2007T5 Case Study Seminar
19-09-200725th Annual Conference - The Impact of Contracts on Project Behaviour and Outcome
12-06-2007Nuclear Decommissioning Moves Ahead
01-05-2007Is The Secret of Successful Projects in The Management of Design and Engineering
18-04-2007Benefits Management and the Business Case
13-03-2007Managing The Resource Gap
30-01-2007The Application of Technology in Managing Demand
05-12-2006Management Styles and Leadership
15-11-2006Learning Lessons from Completed Projects
18-10-2006Rethinking Project Management
19-09-200624th Annual Conference - Making Project Risk Management Work
20-06-2006The London Games - Managing Delivery
07-06-2006Managing Dispersed Project Teams
06-04-2006Corruption - Damage, Risk and Prevention
22-03-2006Managing Changes in Projects
28-02-2006A New Generation of Nuclear Power Stations - Are we Ready?
02-02-2006How can MPA Member Organisations Make Better Use of UK Academic Resources
17-11-2005Change Management
28-09-200523rd Annual Conference - Sensible clients get sensible projects
06-07-2005Corporate Responsibility
24-05-2005Risk transfer and allocation in PFI / PPP projects
17-05-2005Stakeholder Management
20-04-2005Lessons from a Major IT Project
10-03-2005The International Market Now
16-02-2005The Project Manager's Tool Kit - Time to Move on?
16-11-2004Managing Joint Ventures and Alliances
29-09-200422nd Annual Conference - Developing the People Resource
24-06-2004Financial Management in Major Project Businesses
18-05-2004The Channel Tunnel Rail Link
22-04-2004Strategic Planning of Major Projects
21-01-2004Major Project in a Volatile Environment: Lessons from the Telecoms Sector
13-11-2003Learning from Project Failures
24-09-200321st Annual Conference - PFI/PPP Projects - are they Working?
12-06-2003The Management of Unexpected Projects
13-05-2003Cleaning up the UK
26-02-2003Lessons from High Technology Development Projects
23-01-2003Bringing Change to a Dynamic Business: The BBC Property Outsourcing Project
15-11-2002Creating a Workforce Fit to Deliver Major Projects
19-09-200220th Annual Conference - The Management of Change
21-06-2002Supply-Chain Management
22-05-2002The Americans and the French: Do They Do It Better?
25-04-2002Crossrail
12-03-2002Systems Integration for Major Projects
17-01-2002Alliancing/Partnering
07-11-2001Canary Wharf
27-09-200119th Annual Conference - Setting Objectives and Understanding the Client's Business
19-06-2001Transfer of Project Management Competence within and Across Organisations
23-05-2001Effective Teams for Complex Projects
25-04-2001Hong Kong International Airport
16-03-2001The Impact of E-Commerce
23-01-2001The Smart Procurement Initiative - "Faster, Cheaper, Better"
17-11-2000The Jubilee Line Extension
28-09-200018th Annual Conference - The Client/Designer Interface
29-06-2000Strategic Use of insurance in Complex Projects
06-06-2000Project Recovery - Breaking the Cycle of Failure
13-03-2000The Newbury Bypass
18-01-2000Major Projects in a Changing Financial World
29-11-1999Managing High Technology and Innovative Projects
12-11-1999The Channel Tunnel Rail Link
28-09-199917th Annual Conference - Managing the Environmental Risks to Major Projects
19-05-1999So Where Do We Stand Now?
29-04-1999The Learning Organisation
23-03-1999Heathrow Express
29-01-1999Dealing with the Millennium Bug - Lessons for Major Projects
03-12-1998Current State of Liability for Environmental Risks
29-09-199816th Annual Conference - Managing Major Event Projects
18-06-1998Risk and Contingency Management
19-05-1998Project Evaluation
04-03-1998The Great Man - Made River Project in Libya
11-02-1998Private Finance in Cultural Contexts
21-01-1998Managing Completion Risks
04-12-1997From Dreaming to Doing - How Projects Happen
25-09-199715th Annual Conference - Dimensions of IT
19-06-1997The South African Experience
28-05-1997Tsing Ma Bridge
20-02-1997A New Age of Rail?
02-12-1996Decommissioning Major Projects
25-09-199614th Annual Conference - National Approaches to Transport Integration
17-06-1996Social Costs and Benefits
22-04-1996Surfing the Private Finance Initiative
22-02-1996The Hub Power Project
04-12-1995Partnering: Competition v Cooperation
26-10-199513th Annual Conference - The Changing World of Risks
01-09-1995Network Infrastructure
27-07-1995Integrated Project Management Systems
27-03-1995Thailand and Indo-China
19-01-1995Nuclear Waste Disposal
05-12-1994Sizewell B: A Case Study
27-10-199412th Annual Conference - Making Major Projects Happen
14-09-1994The Management of Difficult Projects
08-09-1994The Impact of Environmental Health-and-Safety Factors on Major Projects
14-07-1994Road Privatization
16-03-1994Topical Issues in Project Financing in Eastern and Western Europe
06-12-1993Technology and Telecommunications
28-10-199311th Annual Conference - An Integrated Transport Policy
01-09-1993Major Projects in South America
29-07-1993Asian Idioms of Capitalism
28-06-1993Nuclear Power: The Future
26-04-1993Management of Safety-Critical Systems
22-02-1993The Peace Dividend
14-01-1993Russia and Eastern Europe
11-12-1992Asian Infrastructure Projects
29-10-199210th Annual Conference - Removing Barriers to Long-term Major Projects
02-09-1992The Environment and Global Warming
31-07-1992Project Sovereign
29-06-1992Major Projects in the Leisure Industry
28-02-1992Major Projects in Hong Kong
12-12-1991The Bangladesh KAFCO Project
11-09-19919th Annual Conference - Privatizing British Rail and British Coal
06-06-1991Getting Major Infrastructure Projects Off the Ground
11-04-1991Potential Major Projects Underground
27-02-1991Cleaning up the Mediterranean
13-12-1990Air Transport Infrastructure
26-09-19908th Annual Conference - The Changing Context of Major Projects
29-05-1990Hazardous Waste
19-04-1990The Occasional Major Project Owner/Sponsor
14-12-1989Project Opportunities in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc
27-09-19897th Annual Conference - L'Europe Pour Qui?: European Major Projects in the 1990's
22-06-1989Tornado: A Case Study of a Major Defence Project
06-04-1989The Privatization of the Electricity Supply Industry
13-02-1989Why Design? The Role of Design in Major Projects
08-12-1988The International Commercial Exploitation of Advanced Technology
26-09-19886th Annual Conference - Communications Horizons
02-06-1988Risk Assessment in Initiating Information Technology Projects
14-04-1988Current Changes in Contracting Practice
18-02-1988Boot for Britain?
10-12-1987Organizational Implications of large Information Technology Projects - Big Bang
28-09-19875th Annual Conference - The Planning and Inquiry Process and Infrastructure Projects
28-06-1987The Finance and Organisation of European Space Projects
02-04-1987International Negotiation
20-02-1987The Redevelopment of London's Docklands
04-12-1986The People Factor in Managing Major Projects
29-09-19864th Annual Conference - International Collaboration
13-06-1986Technology and the Management of Major Projects
06-04-1986The Preconditions of Success and Failure in Major Projects
06-02-1986Projects in the Near Future
05-12-1985Why Major Projects go Wrong
30-09-19853rd Annual Conference - The Japanese Approach
14-06-1985Political Risk in the Major Project - What does it Mean?
11-04-1985The Broad Problems Facing Owners on Giant Megaprojects - Past and Future
10-01-1985Overcoming Delays in Major Projects
06-12-1984Port of Jebal Ali
04-10-1984Management - Monitoring or Interference?
01-07-19842nd Annual Conference - The Application of Scenario Planning to Major Projects
15-06-1984The Division of Risk Between The Equity Shareholders and the Consortium
26-04-1984Joint European Torus the Special Problems of Advanced Technology Projects
05-01-1984The Balance of Experience and Uncertainty in Major Projects
15-12-1983The Thames Barrier
06-10-1983Negotiation of Construction Projects
01-06-1983Criteria of viability in current major projects
12-05-1983Catastrophe Risks
06-01-1983The Concorde Project
09-12-1982Relationships and Motivation in International Projects
29-10-1982Causes of Effects of Delay in Major Projects
08-07-1982Oil and Gas Financing
01-06-1982The British Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor Programme
19-04-1982Unresolved Problems of Project Organisation
26-02-1982Unresolved Problems of Risk
27-01-1982Risks in International Project Finance
10-12-1981The Channel Tunnel The Lessons of 1970 To 1975
