Recent Posts by Werner Maritz

首个商用机场成立至今已有百年。相比其最早服务过的城市，如今的机场建设不仅更加复杂，而且在项目管理方面面临着更加严峻的挑战。 1919年8月，英国豪恩斯洛希思机场成为了首个提供定期国际商业航班的机场。而如今，根据国际民航组织代码显示，全球在用机场的数量已超过40,000个，与此同时还有很多在建机场正处于不同的建设阶段。 实际上，截至2018年年中，GlobalData建设情报中心（CIC）对全球价值7,373亿美元的机场建设项目进行了追踪，其中价值2,120亿美元的项目处于规划阶段。当今国际机场的经济影响远远超出了机场本身的范围，很多机场在其所在城市、地区和国家的经济发展中发挥着核心作用，所以机场建设项目的成功与否变得极为重要。   机场本身就是一座“迷你城市” 从复杂性和规模的角度来说，如今的机场与早期相比已然是大不相同。国际机场的建设或升级已经成为一项极为复杂的工作，大多数情况下，都由来自多个机构的多个团队同时参与。这些机构对很多行业和基础设施类别有着深远影响，其中包括航空、公路、铁路、物流、零售以及由多个网络组成的数字生态系统，这些网络管理着机场的乘客、...

In early June of this year, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration announced an award of 432 grants totaling US$840 million to fund infrastructure projects at 381 airports around the country. This total includes funding for runway reconstruction and rehabilitation, construction of firefighting facilities, and the maintenance of taxiways, aprons, and terminals. This is only the first allotment of $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across...

Don’t plan on airport construction slowing down anytime soon. Worldwide annual passenger traffic is projected to reach 10.7 billion by 2022, up from 4.3 billion in 2018. Seasonal peaks in air travel are increasing, too. And this is a global trend that is even more prominent in emerging economies, according to the airline trade association IATA. A flurry of global airport construction plans Almost US$750 billion in airport construction projects are underway or planned...

In part one of this article, I examined some of the many challenges public infrastructure projects face, spanning from poor planning to cost overruns, and even outright failure. In that article, I reviewed how industry professionals must vigilantly avoid three potential project pitfalls inherent in public infrastructure projects, including: selecting the wrong project, reputational damage, and financial failure. In this post, I’ll explore four additional public infrastructure...

Public infrastructure is the backbone of global economic activity, facilitating the delivery of an array of vital services including: education, health, sanitation, transport, communication, electricity, clean water, and many others. Unfortunately, infrastructure also faces an array of challenges, ranging from under-spending, poor planning, cost overruns and quality issues, to occasional project failure. Industry professionals can steer clear of this host of potential...

Today, more people live in urban areas than in rural ones. And according to recent predictions that gap will continue to grow, with more than two-thirds of the world’s population living in urban areas by 2050. This presents significant challenges to city planners, who historically have not designed infrastructure to cope with population density growth on this scale. As a result, many cities need to undertake infrastructure upgrades or replacements to prepare for the...

For the past few weeks the Oracle Construction and Engineering Global Business Unit has been focused on shedding some light on the challenges and opportunities in large infrastructure programs. Aside from the multiple efficiencies that can be gained through smarter, standardized digital management platforms and contract tools for example, there are working approaches and considerations that can ease these major program pressures. On December 13th, Oracle is hosting a webcast...

The global construction market is set to grow by US$8 trillion by 2030, reaching a total size of $US17.5 trillion. That is up by 85% and growing by an average annual rate of 3.9% to 2030 (Global Construction 2030). One of the areas fueling this growth is a global deficit in public infrastructure, due in part to population growth and the aging inventory of infrastructure assets, especially in developing regions. To close this infrastructure deficit, multilateral...

Informally, smart can be defined as “having or showing a quick-witted intelligence” and in the case of smart city initiatives, this intelligence is characterized by the capability for independent action. Smart builds respond and react to their environments - and importantly, must be able to evolve with it. Furthermore, although smart cities feature a high degree of automation, most systems are not yet at the stage where they can repair and maintain themselves without human...