The Big Dig

Author : Dan McNichol,Andy Ryan,Massachusetts. Dept. of Public Works
Publisher : Silver Lining Books
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0760723079

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The Big Dig by Dan McNichol,Andy Ryan,Massachusetts. Dept. of Public Works Pdf

The first book ever written about Boston's Big Dig--the largest, most complex highway construction project ever embarked upon in U.S. history! This regional blockbuster reached #1 on the Boston Globe's bestseller list. Filled with dozens of remarkable photos and fascinating archival illustrations, it pulsates with details only an insider like Dan McNichol, former director of the project who was in at the conception, could provide. For example: During peak construction years, the Big Dig spends nearly $110,000,000 a month. The project will place 3.8 million cubic yards of concrete, enough to build a sidewalk three feet wide and four inches thick from Boston to San Francisco...three times. Rats! Some city officials told the public that construction would dislodge millions of rats from deep down under the city. When The Big Dig is finally finished, Boston will have over 200 acres of new parks, its skyline will be transformed, and its infamous traffic nightmares will be a thing of the past.

Author : Sherri Duskey Rinker
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338257182

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Tiny and the Big Dig by Sherri Duskey Rinker Pdf

A New York Times bestselling powerhouse team presents a doggie, a bone, and tons of determination to remind us that going for what you want brings ginormous surprises. Sniff! Sniff-sniff!I smell a bone. A bone that's BIG.I'll get it out, I'll dig and dig.A big, BIG bone! I know it's there!It will take work, but I don't care!Tiny may be a small dog, but don't let that fool you. He's a pooch with power who knows what he wants. And he's going for it. But oh, those pesky pessimists -- they're trying to rain on Tiny's dig-parade! Thank goodness for one special boy who believes in Tiny, because in the end, this dog's grit proves that he's the little pup who could... dig up some giant surprises!

Author : Paul Stickland
Publisher : Handprint Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Building
ISBN : 192992741X

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Big Dig by Paul Stickland Pdf

Heavy machinery rumbles into action when Paul Stickland brings his pop-up wizardry to a building site. Bulldozers, cement-mixers, cranes and more appear in seven exciting spreads with a magnificent fold-out finale. Stickland's talent lies not only in engineering brilliant pop-ups but in accurately portraying the details of machinery with warmth and wit. A lilting, chant-aloud text makes this a book kids will demand again and again, and the sturdy, self-activating pops make for a book far more destruction-resistant than most pop-ups.

Author : Virginia A. Greiman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118115473

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Megaproject Management by Virginia A. Greiman Pdf

Project management lessons learned on the Big Dig, America's biggest megaproject, by a core member responsible for its daily operations In Megaproject Management, a central member of the Big Dig team reveals the numerous risks, challenges, and accomplishments of the most complex urban infrastructure project in the history of the United States. Drawing on personal experience and interviews with project engineers, executive oversight commission officials, and core managers, the author, a former deputy counsel and risk manager for the Big Dig, develops new insights as she describes the realities of day-to-day management of the project from a project manager's perspective. The book incorporates both theory and practice and is therefore highly recommended to policymakers, academics, and project management practitioners. Focusing on lessons learned, this insightful coursebook presents the Big Dig as a massive case study in the management of risk, cost, and schedule, particularly the interrelation of technical, legal, political, and social factors. It provides an analysis of the difficulties in managing megaprojects during each phase and over the life span of the project, while delivering useful lessons on why projects go wrong and what can be done to prevent project failure. It also offers new ideas to enhance project management performance and innovation in our global society. This unique guide: Defines megaproject characteristics and frameworks Reviews the Big Dig's history, stakeholders, and governance Examines the project's management scope, scheduling, and cost management—including project delays and cost overruns Analyzes the Big Dig's risk management and quality management Reveals how to build a sustainable project through integration and change introduction

Author : Dan McNichol
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Boston Harbor Islands (Mass.)
ISBN : UCBK:C045091366

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The Big Dig by Dan McNichol Pdf

Boston's Big Dig: the largest urban construction project in the history of the modern world.

Author : Linda Barnes
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504057059

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The Big Dig by Linda Barnes Pdf

The Boston PI excavates her city’s buried secrets in this “shrewd . . . smartly told” thriller by the Anthony Award–winning author (The New York Times). Six-foot-tall, redheaded ex-cop and Boston-based private eye Carlotta Carlyle is “the genuine article: a straightforward, funny, thoroughly American mystery heroine” (New York Post). Boston’s largest urban renewal undertaking in modern history draws Carlotta into an undercover gig at the site. It comes at the request of a disgruntled hardhat who suspects the multibillion-dollar project has set off a groundswell of graft, kickbacks, and fraud. The case hasn’t unearthed anything but dirt, so Carlotta is tempted into moonlighting on another: a Beacon Street socialite who’s deeply concerned about her vanishing tenant, a dog groomer named Veronica James. Since there’s no possible way Veronica would run off without her beloved Norwegian wolfhound, Carlotta’s suspicions are definitely aroused. And when her big-dig informant falls to his death in a highly dubious accident, Carlotta’s torn between two disparate investigations: an unlikely kidnapping and a likely murder . . . Until they begin to converge, “and watching Carlotta tease out their deep, disturbing connections is pure pleasure” (Kirkus Reviews). The Big Dig is the 9th book in the Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Author : D'Arcy O'Connor
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Travel
ISBN : 034535558X

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The Big Dig by D'Arcy O'Connor Pdf

Chronicles the many frustrated attempts to recover the treasure that is rumored to lie within the ingeniously elaborate labyrinth of winding tunnels and secret underwater chambers beneath Oak Island

Author : Orikaye G. Brown-West
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-06
Category : Express highways
ISBN : 9781430312659

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In DEFENSE of the BIG DIG: How Politics Affected the Planning, Design and Construction of the Boston Central Artery/Tunnel Project by Orikaye G. Brown-West Pdf

Tells the story of the planning, design and construction of the Big Dig, Boston's Central Artery and Tunnel project from a personal perspective. This most complex and technologically challenging project is a paradox of praises and blame. This book defends the professionals who planned, designed and constructed it; and blames the politics of project planning for the shortcomings.

Author : Transportation Research Board,National Research Council,National Academy of Engineering,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment,Committee for Review of the Project Management Practices Employed on the Boston Central Artery/Tunnel (
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-03-21
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780309088879

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Completing the "Big Dig" by Transportation Research Board,National Research Council,National Academy of Engineering,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment,Committee for Review of the Project Management Practices Employed on the Boston Central Artery/Tunnel ( Pdf

Boston's Central Artery/Tunnel Project, a 7.8 mile system of bridges and underground highways and ramps, is the most expensive public works project ever undertaken in the United States. The original cost estimate of $2.6 billion has already been exceeded by $12 billion, and the project will not be completed until 2005, seven years late. The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority (MTA), the public steward of the project, requested that the National Research Council carry out an independent assessment of the project's management and contract administration practices, with a focus on the present situation and measures that should be taken to bring the project to a successful conclusion. This report presents the committee's findings and recommendations pertaining to cost, scheduling, and transitioning from the current organization dominated by consultants to an operations organization composed largely of full-time MTA staff. The report recommends that MTA establish an external, independent, peer-review program to address technical and management issues until the transition to operations and maintenance is complete; begin a media campaign now to teach drivers how to use the new system safely; and develop, immediately implement, and maintain a comprehensive security program.

Author : Peter Vanderwarker
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0316605980

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The Big Dig by Peter Vanderwarker Pdf

Describes the development of the city of Boston and the reasons for creating the Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel Project--known as "the big dig"--and outlines each step in its planning and construction.

Author : Scholastic Inc.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1338323040

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Big Dig Excavation Kit by Scholastic Inc. Pdf

Author : William G. Crawford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105129871005

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Florida's Big Dig by William G. Crawford Pdf

This book is the story of people of vision and courage, of a small group of prominent Saint Augustine investors who conceived of the Florida waterway and began the first dredging work; of an obscure group of New England capitalists who provided significant financing and obtained a million acres of undeveloped Florida public land in pursuing what was, at best, a speculative enterprise; of innumerable citizen groups like the Florida east coast chamber associations and the larger Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association that demanded at the turn of the last century what they believed was the peoples right-a public waterway, free of the burden of tolls; and finally, of the U>S> Army Corps of Engineers, who conducted all of the Florida waterway's early surveys and assumed the project's control in 1929 to convert what was once a private toll way into Florida's modern-day, toll-free Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.

Author : Jeannie Meejin Yoon,Meredith Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : City planning
ISBN : NWU:35556039328851

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Public Works by Jeannie Meejin Yoon,Meredith Miller Pdf

Edited by J. Meejin Yoon, Meredith Miller.

Author : Angie Morgan
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1847804632

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Daisy's Big Dig by Angie Morgan Pdf

How one little girl gathers together all the different people and families in her street, to help one old man dig his garden - and how the resulting Digging Party has far-reaching results for the community. No one really knows each other in Daisy's street. But when Mr Hofmeister falls ill, she is determined to help him out and get the neighbors involved. Invitations go out, hinting at buried treasure, and one special day the two Daves, the Lemming family, Mrs Benjamin and Professor Flowerdew all come together to dig the old man's garden and look for the treasure. And do they find treasure? Well yes, but not quite what anyone expected!

Author : Alison Inches
Publisher : Simon Spolight/Nickelodeon
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1847380476

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Dora's Big Dig by Alison Inches Pdf

Dora and Boots go looking for treasure.