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New HS2 high-speed rail link is thrown into turmoil as £750,000 boss quits for a top job at Rolls-Royce
Simon Kirby (pictured) has been poached by Rolls-Royce
The controversial HS2 high-speed rail link was thrown into fresh turmoil last night after its highly-paid boss quit weeks before a crucial decision by MPs.
Simon Kirby, the project's chief executive whose £750,000 salary made him Britain's most highly-paid civil servant, has been poached by Rolls-Royce.
It leaves Europe's largest infrastructure project, designed to link London with the Midlands, without a chief shortly before it is expected to be given the go-ahead by the Commons.
No successor has yet been appointed. The HS2 project has been dogged by disagreements over the route and the cost of the second phase of the scheme, which involves building high-speed lines from Birmingham to Manchester and Leeds.
The cost has rocketed from £40billion to £55billion before the project has even begun, and some estimates predict it could soar to £80billion.
One source told the Sunday Times that Theresa May was considering significantly altering the scheme, saying: 'The new Government is understood to want a new direction.'
The long-delayed announcement on the exact route of the HS2 scheme is now due in the autumn. Th
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The Infrastructure Podcast: Episode 17
Guest:Simon Kirby, Managing Partner, The Nichols Group
This podcast focuses on what can be done to help major infrastructure project teams actually deliver the outcomes that are promised – and specifically whether engaging minds early will drive project success .
As any casual observer of infrastructure will be aware, the track record of major project delivery is not good. In fact a new book by Oxford University professor Bent Flyvbjerg highlights that globally from his list of 16,000 projects in 136 countries over the last 30 years, just 8.5% met cost and schedule targets while just 0.5% satisfied all benefit goals.
OK, I haven’t audited his numbers, but they are, on the face of it, a pretty shocking set of findings – findings that seem to bear out and ring true if you consider the UK’s recent project outcomes from projects such as Crossrail, Jubilee Line Extension, West Coast Mainline upgrade, Hinkley Point – the list goes on. And there are of course many more examples of smaller infrastructure projects failing to deliver.
So what is going wrong? Prof Flyvbjerg highlights many, many reasons from long durations causing scope and budget creep to failure to understand technology and a propensity t
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