How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration

by Professor Bent Flyvbjerg

This process, called “design for manufacture and assembly,” is how the hyperefficient car industry operates. Sir John Egan, the CEO of BAA and a former head of Jaguar, had argued in an influential report to the UK government that this approach would produce major efficiency gains in construction.7 With T5, he put his thinking into practice.