Here’s why all your projects are always late — and what to do about it (Ep. 323 Rebroadcast)


Podcast features Michael Horodniceanu, Professor and IDC Foundation Chair in Design & Construction in the Department of Civil and Urban Engineering and the NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

… Okay, let’s go with “Dr. H.” He is a longtime transportation scholar and executive. In 2008, he became president of Capital Construction for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. And one of the first things he did was restart the Second Avenue Subway. By now it was 40 years since Governor Rockefeller’s original proposal. Dr. H. updated the budgets and estimates and finally got construction started. In 2010, a massive tunnel-boring machine began its work underneath 92nd Street.

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