Millau Viaduct Project Management
The Millau Viaduct is a cable-stayed road bridge which spans the valley of the river Tarn situated alongside the Township of Millau in Southern France. The viaduct standing over 343 meters tall was the world’s tallest cable-stayed bridge and was proposed as the missing link in the A75 auto route that connects Paris in the north to Perpignan in the south. The Millau Viaduct was the product of 17 years of ideas, proposals, planning and designs that resulted in shaving 40 miles off the former route through the region, a boom in local economic development and the completion of the one of the world’s most well managed and constructed projects.
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Business Case:
The initial objectives of the project are to provide a link in the national and international road network, and to promote economic development and tourism locally by improving access to the connection of Clermont Ferrand and Beziers on the A75 highway. This in turn will serve to relieve the severe traffic congestion due to large quantity of traffic currently passing through the town of Millau.
Stakeholders and Management: * Environmentalist * Residents * Government of France (GoF) * Local Government authorities : The commune of Millau and the Grands Causses Grouping of Communes * The Arrondissement Interdepartemental des Ouvrages d’Art (AIOA) was given responsibility for monitoring the project by the State. It reports to the Infrastructure Directorate of the Aveyron, which manages the construction works of the A75. * Roads users * Media
Project Charter:
Project charter is produced with the initial scope being the feasibility studies into the different routes of the A75 highway. This initial scope will be redefined as the project progresses through each planning stage. Other areas considered are economic development and environmental impact research.
Planning
Project Analysis:
Construct a toll free motorway by connecting route through the Tarn Valley to
Initiate
Business Case:
The initial objectives of the project are to provide a link in the national and international road network, and to promote economic development and tourism locally by improving access to the connection of Clermont Ferrand and Beziers on the A75 highway. This in turn will serve to relieve the severe traffic congestion due to large quantity of traffic currently passing through the town of Millau.
Stakeholders and Management: * Environmentalist * Residents * Government of France (GoF) * Local Government authorities : The commune of Millau and the Grands Causses Grouping of Communes * The Arrondissement Interdepartemental des Ouvrages d’Art (AIOA) was given responsibility for monitoring the project by the State. It reports to the Infrastructure Directorate of the Aveyron, which manages the construction works of the A75. * Roads users * Media
Project Charter:
Project charter is produced with the initial scope being the feasibility studies into the different routes of the A75 highway. This initial scope will be redefined as the project progresses through each planning stage. Other areas considered are economic development and environmental impact research.
Planning
Project Analysis:
Construct a toll free motorway by connecting route through the Tarn Valley to
References: Smith, N.J. (Ed.), 2008, Engineering Project Management, 3rd Edition, Wiley-Blackwell, Victoria. Steelbridge, 2004, Steel bridges extend structural limits Millau, Steelbridge, viewed 9 March 2013, <http://cnrsm.creteil.iufm.fr/g01_dp/viaduc_millau_apk_44/01_greish/04_millau_steelbridge.pdf>