Executing and Closing projects - Sydney Opera House

Executing and Closing projects
SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE

Introduction to the project
 Construction initiated in 1959
 Project was actually scheduled for four years
along with a budget of AUS $7 million
 Completion of the project cost AUS $102 million
 Completion of the project exceeded the actual
deadline
 Client changed the plan in the middle

The range of used control systems for cost, schedule,
scope and quality
 That government of New South Wales decided to
invest $100,000 in the project as it felt it had an
obligation to public to choose the existing affairs
 Cost of project estimated $5.5 million but the initial
cost of stage 1 was estimated around AUD$1.3 but
this has increased to $2.5 million and by the first
stage works left 47 weeks behind schedule and it was
over the budget
 There is a large gap between the actual cost and the
estimated cost of the project

Contd...
 Almost 233 entries were received from 32 different
nations
 Half 3000 seats as well as a small hall for almost
1200 people and each was supposed to be designed
for different categories of use with the inclusion of
full scale opera, orchestral and choral concern,
lecture and mass meeting, bullet performance and
lecture