Cost and schedule overruns in large hydropower dams: an assessment of projects completed since 2000
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2020
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Plummer Braeckman, Judith
Disselhoff, Tim
Kirchherr, J.W.
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Abstract
This paper presents novel data on cost and schedule overruns in recent dam projects started and completed since 2000 and compares them with pre-existing data sets on projects started before 2000. Combining these data, a meta-data set was created of 184 cost overrun and 191 time overrun data points. For post-2000 projects, the average cost overrun was 33% and schedule overrun was 18% as compared with 46% and 37% respectively for pre-2000 projects. While a decrease in the averages was observed, the change in cost overruns is not statistically significant, whereas the change in time overruns is significant.
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Large dams, hydorpower, forecasting, cost and schedule estimates, World Commission on Dams, Taverne, SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
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Plummer Braeckman, J, Disselhoff, T & Kirchherr, J W 2020, 'Cost and schedule overruns in large hydropower dams: an assessment of projects completed since 2000', International Journal of Water Resources Development, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 839-854. https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2019.1568232