That a public sector project could be completed without significant cost and time overruns was considered an achievement by many.

With no unions, they can also be made to work round the clock, which means fewer time overruns.

There is no evidence that costs would be reduced by a European defence market, certainly collaborative projects prove costly in both time overruns and money.

According to this definition, the planning fallacy results in not only time overruns, but also cost overruns and benefit shortfalls.

The lack of transparency leads to huge cost and time overruns, and it also facilitates bribery and corruption.

The overhaul was plagued by cost and time overruns, and when finally completed in December 2005, it was several months late and well over budget.

Many nuclear plant proposals were no longer viable due to the downturn of electricity demand increases, significant cost and time overruns, and more complex regulatory requirements.

There were major setbacks in the film's production due to cost and time overruns, negative press, and rumors about Cimino's allegedly overbearing directorial style.

When a space expert from the New York Times heckled him about the cost and time overruns, he invited the learned gentleman to have a beer with him at the Dagger Bar.

Kalam played a major part in developing many missiles under the mission including Agni, an intermediate range ballistic missile and Prithvi, the tactical surface-to-surface missile, although the projects have been criticised for mismanagement and cost and time overruns.

IPD combines ideas from integrated practice and lean construction to solve several problems in contemporary construction such as low productivity and waste, time overruns, quality issues, and conflicts during construction among the key stakeholders of owner, architect and contractor.

Commenting on the cost and time overruns, Peter Pawsey, managing director of PSA Projects, which oversaw completion of the construction, said the size and nature of the project had raised a number of issues never faced before which had required time for reconsideration.

The cost and time overruns was due to protracted dispute between the Commonwealth and the builder over the drawings and specifications received from France, with evidence that the Department of Defence underestimated the extent of the differences between the original Australian building specifications and those supplied.

Those are not trivial sums and are, to put that into perspective, equivalent to building many nuclear plants per year, without the cost overruns, without the time overruns, without the direct massive government subsidies, without the health risks, without the fuel cost risks and without the unaccounted for future costs associated with nuclear.

This measure, already a positive step in itself because it tackles corruption and the lack of transparency which results in huge cost and time overruns, is improved by the Jadot Report, which seeks to further improve transparency and justice by introducing the Arrangement agreed within the OECD into EU legislation.