What were the unresolved risks that led to the cost overruns and delay in the Wembley project?
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beyond me.may be because the assies are building it
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Yes. Wembley Stadium should be open for visitors in about a month (it's already open for friends and family of the builders). You could mess about with the water fountain outsde of the Arena. That's always fun. Also, you should check out Wembley market. Lots of quality stuff there. Also, they've started putting in new bars around the place (most noticably opposite the stadium itself).
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5 Reasons\n1. wont be in the premiership long\n2.Pearce will soon be sacked\n3.Stadium ( council owed )\n4.more often then not the ground is not full\n5.Its still a long way back home to STOCKPORT.
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"The dome was never going to work but actually came from a tory dinner party"\n\nActually what became the dome was not. The dome as envisaged by the tories was a permanent structure designed to last the next 1000 years and celebrate the best of the last 1000 years. A magnificent dome, out-shining the Taj-Mahal in India and a symbol of our national pride and our place in the world.\n\nLabour took over the project and turned it into a plastic piss-take.\n\nThe dome as it is now, is a perfect piece of symbolism representitive of the Labour party. A plastic, expensive and utterly pointless failure!\n\nThe Wembly project is ALSO very symbolic of a Blair government insofar as it is representitive of his attitude to the English and for the vast majority of his tenure, the English have not had a home for their national game! We've had to go to Wales to see our national game played at the highest level. Another expensive insult.\n\nI dread to think what these bunch of incompetent and corrupt tossers will make of the Olympics.\n\nAfter lying us into war and turning the UK into a political rogue state around the world, Blair may well have the Olympics as another example of turning our nation into an international embarrasment.
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WOW! Tough one.\n\nProject overruns can be caused by personalities not getting along and working together or using the wrong tool and finding it out after the fact or clients making huge changes to what they want.\n\nThe only thing you can realisticly do to help lessen software project problems is to be prepared.\n\nDo the homework on client needs.\n\nDo the compliance homework for the platform you're going to use.\n\nDo your homework to follow industry standards in design, for example, on MS the Composite UI standard.\n\nDo your DBA before hand, find flaws.\n\nDo your psuedo code run throughs before hand, find logic errors.\n\nHave a really code project manager software, with resource allocation and finiacial features, along with the charting, etc to always gain a view of how on time/bugdet the project is.  \n\nMS Project is still the best.  \n\nI tried a freebie mimicker and it was awful and that one if rated one of the best freebie project managers.
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The problem is relating to the fact that there is more to it than simply "having a list of names". Ranging from having the official player passes made up to something as simple as being able to create datasheets for the commentators to learn all the players names. If the deadline is slipped then it means everything is pushed back in date leading to the possibility of things not being ready on time (See Multiplex for details!)
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There may be some sound technical reason for not playing cricket in the covered ground.  Otherwise administrators of the game would have thought about it long back and saved lot of money being lost due to rain etc.
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An EPCI contract (Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Installation) is normally used on large projects that have a srtict deadline.  The EPCI contractor takes a significant risk by fully ownig the project until they turn it over to the purchaser.  Such as an Infrastructure Project (e.g., road, rail link, bridge, water or sewage treatment plant, transmission line, even dam or hydropower plant) or similar where the Employer - who provides the finance - wishes to implement the Project on a Fixed-Price Turnkey Basis.\n\nThen the Employer wishes the Contractor to take total responsibility for the design and construction of the infra-structure facility, and the Employer wishes a higher degree of certainty that the agreed contract price and time will not be exceeded, except that if underground works in uncertain or difficult ground conditions are likely then the risk of unforeseen ground conditions should be borne by the Employer, and the Employer wishes - or is used to - the Project being organized on a strictiy two party approach, i.e. without an "Engineer" being involved, and the Employer does not wish to be involved in the day-to-day progress of the construction work, provided the end result meets the performance criteria he has specified, and the Employer is willing to pay more for the construction of his Project (than would be the case if the Conditions of Contract for Plant and Design-Build were used) in return for the Contractor bearing the extra risks associated with enhanced certainty of final price and time.
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Potential problems include: \nDestruction of habitat:  caves (important) or the soils of lime-loving species.\nPotential for contamination of groundwater supplies in karst regions.\nBig trucks on the road: traffic, congestion, possibly getting gravel on the road. \nDegradation of landscape: Some people don't like the look of quarries
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Lack of Committment, by one or both parties.
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This is a debate we're going to have to have here in the US soon...are the risks of nuclear power worth the benefits.  I think there's nothing wrong with nuke power, having worked around it for several years in the early 90's.  I think irrational fear is nuclear power's biggest obstacle.  People fear what they cannot understand.  They see Chernobyl and think that's going to happen all over again in their backyard, when the fact of the matter is that modern nuke plants are as safe as any other industrial facility handling volatile materials.  The UK would be well served by building new nukes and opening up research on alternative power sources simultaneously.
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Wembley is the place for England's team.  It's important for the team to have a single, beautiful space that the country can identify with and focus on.  By moving the team around it would seem as though they are wandering.  The team really do need a "home" around which they can continue to build the team's mystique.
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Those who suggest that terracing, per se, was to blame for the  Hillsborough tragedy are missing the point entirely.\n\nHillsborough was caused by ineffecient policing techniques, poor stewarding, and drink. The fact that it happened on a terrace is largely circumstantial.\n\nIn Germany, huge crowds still stand every week at Bundesliga grounds. Borussia Dortmund's home terrace is larger than than any old terrace in England, holding around 60,000 fans when full..and there is never any danger because it has been modernized regularly, has plenty of crush barriers and is well stewarded. It is 100% safe. And the atmosphere is magnificent.\n\nMany fans PREFER standing...just look at the number of people who instantly stand up automatically when their team is attacking. It means EVERYONE has to then stand or your view is blocked. \n\nThere is no reason at all why safe standing areas could not be provided at Premiership stadiums.\n\n...except,of course, the clubs cant charge as much for a standing ticket...
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Air Canada Centre cost $265 million to build and was entirely privately funded by Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd. (MLSEL)\n\nMost Stadiums are owned by companies and other private corporations.
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Only if Arsenal were allowed to postpone their match, otherwise it would have being unfair to Arsenal, as spurs would have had the Advantage of knowing what was needed to qualify for 4th spot and CL football, the only alternative would have been to reschedule both Matches till after May 17th at a neutral venue (for Arsenal, as highbury would have been unavailable and Ashburton Grove won't receive FA/Premier league approval till after WC 2006)\n\nThere was no way the the FA/Premier League would have allowed spurs's match to be postponed anyway because they wanted all league matches to be played and finished before the FA cup final
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Even though his government was ruling...I dont think this project would have materialised. Because there were many other important concerns which need to be dealt
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This would depend on the site and amount of work to be carried out, mail me at shaun@sdhinternet.co.uk with the  details and will let you know what the cost would be