Delivery Model

In-House & Owner-Managed Delivery

Programmes delivered by the organisation's own people rather than an external prime — Boeing's in-house 737 MAX derivative programme, Berlin Airport's owner-managed Eigenregie construction without a general contractor, JPMorgan's in-house CIO trading operation, TEPCO's privately operated nuclear fleet, the Suez Canal Authority's own transit operations, Foxconn's self-delivered Wisconsin campus, the DPRK's state-directed Ryugyong construction, TSMC's internal fab programme and Apple's single-owner campus delivery.

8 Investigations

In-House & Owner-Managed Delivery appears in 8 Project Insider Asia investigations, covering Billion Dollar Failures, Corporate Disasters, Megaprojects, Governance and Design & Delivery. Featured: Boeing 737 MAX, JPMorgan CIO Trading Loss and Berlin Brandenburg Airport and 5 more.

Boeing 737 MAX — investigative documentary thumbnail
Billion Dollar Failures$20B+

Boeing 737 MAX

Boeing 737 MAX: How MCAS, Certification and Organisational Failures…

6 min read
JPMorgan CIO Trading Loss — investigative documentary thumbnail
Corporate Disasters$6.2B

JPMorgan CIO Trading Loss

How the London Whale Lost $6.2 Billion and Exposed Shadow IT Risk

4 min read
Berlin Brandenburg Airport — investigative documentary thumbnail
Megaprojects€7B

Berlin Brandenburg Airport

Berlin Brandenburg Airport: How Governance, Design Changes and…

4 min read
Fukushima Daiichi investigation — the damaged reactor buildings behind the seawall
Billion Dollar Failures¥21.5tn (US$187–190bn) official 2016 estimate; JCER private estimate ¥35–81tn; ¥12.1tn spent by FY2021 (Board of Audit)

Fukushima Daiichi

A Manmade Disaster: How Japan's Nuclear Establishment Designed Out the…

8 min read
The container ship Ever Given wedged diagonally across the Suez Canal, surrounded by tugboats and dredgers during the March 2021 salvage operation
Billion Dollar FailuresSettlement reported ~$540M (unconfirmed); trade delay estimated up to $9.6B/day

Ever Given: Six Days That Stopped World Trade

How a 400-Metre Ship, a Sandstorm and a Chain of Contested Decisions…

9 min read
The Foxconn site in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin — sparse industrial buildings on cleared farmland originally destined for a $10 billion LCD factory
Billion Dollar Failures>$4B pledged taxpayer support; $62.9M credits actually earned by end-2024

Foxconn in Wisconsin: The $10 Billion Factory That Never Was

13,000 Promised Jobs, More Than $4 Billion in Pledged Taxpayer Support…

8 min read
Aerial view of a vast TSMC GIGAFAB semiconductor plant in a Taiwan science park, showing the phased cleanroom complex that anchors the company's repeatable fab-delivery programme.
GovernanceFab 18: more than NT$500 billion (approx. US$17 billion, 2018 announcement); leading-edge fabs now estimated at US$17-20 billion+ each

TSMC's GigaFab Programme: The Megaproject Machine That Never Stops

How TSMC Turned a US$17 Billion Fab From a Major Capital Programme Into…

9 min read
Aerial view of Apple Park in Cupertino: the vast circular glass ring designed by Foster + Partners set in landscaped parkland of drought-resistant trees.
Design & DeliveryReported around US$5 billion final (unconfirmed by Apple); early estimates under US$3 billion

Apple Park: How Design Ambition Shaped a Multi-Billion-Dollar Headquarters

Inside the US$5 Billion Campus Where Product-Design Governance Met…

9 min read

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