Plugging the Gaps’ Between Optimum Bias and Strategic Misrepresentation and Infrastructure Cost Overruns

AbstractInfrastructure projects regularly experience cost and schedule overruns. Research led by Flyvberg has suggested that misrepresentation and optimum bias are primary causes for overruns. While Flyvberg's research has made a significant contribution to ameliorating understanding as to why economic infrastructure projects experience overruns, it does not adequately explain why this is the case for such social infrastructure. In addressing this shortcoming, a case study is used to determine the intermediary events and actions that contributed to it experiencing a project cost overrun. The events and actions that contributed overruns are identified and analyzed. The analysis of the case study findings has led to the propagation of nomological framework for social infrastructure project overruns