Assessment task:

Critical review the decision making of a failed major construction/property project within the UK in the last ten years. The failure or issue from best practice should have impacted on either the individual success of the scheme as a project or the wider viability of the organisation.

Word count: 2,000 with minimum of four diagramming management tools produced to support your case study.

You are to choose a high profile well documented major UK project that has encountered difficulties or issues either in the procurement, construction phase implementation or within the complete business viability of the scheme.

Using the management assessment techniques, tools and diagrams you are to critically review the decision making of the project using the tools to explain plus inform your explanation of the factors encountered.

Trade press, professional journals and similar publications regularly document projects that have encountered issues. Construction legal cases also help check projects that have not run smoothly.

You are to compare best practice against the actions of the construction/design team in the project that is the basis of your study.

In the assignment you should clearly check the method of procurement used, the form of contract and the point of failure that lead to the issue that is the core to your assessment of the problem.

Why on a major project did this professional team get it wrong and what measures/actions would you adopt to ensure this never happens on a project under your own control?