Project Application Construction Management

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Project Application Construction Management
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Part A: Project Influences (Module 1)
From the PESTLE perspective, the case study of the Denver Airport can be analyzed as
follows.
Political – Political factors have significantly affected the construction of the Denver
Airport. Due to major problems arising regarding funding and implementation of different
complex technologies related to the airport, there were competitions between three local mayor
candidates regarding how much each of them will offer for the completion of the airport within a
reasonable amount of time (Jordan, 2017). With delay occurring due to several complexities and
problems regarding the implementation of the technology, the mayor had to take active part for
completing the project and open the airport for public.
Economic – Economic factors have significant impact on this project. Citing several
major problems like the scale of the project, complexity of the entire system, newness of the
technology and others, the project was delayed beyond deadline for a considerable amount of
time. Due to the delay, the costs of the project were also increased significantly and even after
the significant increase, the project was not completed. Hence, the authority faced major losses
from the project.
Social – Social factors had some impact on the progress of the Denver Airport project.
Due to the increasing demands of an airport in Denver with significant influx of passengers,
social pressure was growing to get the construction done and open the airport for public use (De
Neufville, 2016). With continuing delay in the construction and implementation of the proposed

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technologies, the hostility of the people increased and the authority faced enormous pressure to
get the project done as fast as possible.
Technological – Technology always played a major role in the project. As per the
proposed plan for the airport, several new technologies needed to be implemented in the airport
including the baggage handling and processing technology (Han, Clarke & Tsou, 2017). While it
was already estimated that implementation of the technologies will require high amount of fund,
it could not be predicted that the project will later face major complications regarding the
newness and complexity of the implementation of the technologies.
Legal – After a significant amount of delay, a survey was done in order to determine the
existing condition of the project and whether it can be completed or not. It was found that
although the technical implementations were made according to plan, the project should require
some more and significant amount of time in order to complete all the technical work and get all
the functionalities working properly or the airport could be opened for public by skipping the
remaining work. For the second case, it was highly likely that the airlines companies could sue
the airport authority for not providing the functionalities as promised initially.
Environmental – The project affected the environment significantly due to the
continuous period of the construction (McDonald et al., 2018). With the increasing delay of the
project, the construction works constantly made negative impact on the surrounding environment
and hence, there was growing pressure to complete the works in order to prevent further harm to
the environment.
As a project manager of the Denver Airport project, I would have taken some steps to
prepare for the influences mentioned above. Firstly, I would have conducted a risk analysis to