The Chinese Three Gorges Dam will always be one of the greatest projects in history. Conceived in the 1920’s the dam was built to control the flooding of the Yangtze River. An estimated 300,000 people have died because of these floods. The dam was started in 1994 it stretches 1.5 miles wide and has a height of over 600 feet. The dam stores 51.4 billion cubic yards of water and raises the current level of the Yangtze River to 570 feet above the dam site. The dam is generated by two power stations which generate 18,200 megawatts of electricity. Employing 18,000 workers daily this is the world largest dam. It took 134 million cubic yards of earth and stone and 35.5 million cubic yards of concrete to build the dam. Being estimated to cost 73 billion, building this dam went down in history as the most expensive project in history. Although there were many disadvantages to this type of project the fact remains that business project management takes a lot of planning and is very important to accomplish a mission. The methods of project management take massive amounts of time and money. You can see the results just by taking further review on the building of the Three Gorges Dam.
Reference: Jeffrey K. Pinto. 2007. Project Management-Achieving Competitive Advantage. Pearson Prentice Hall. Chap. 1 Pg. 9-10
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