Research data for PPP financing, architectural design, and risk mitigation in Melbourne's Southern Cross Station project

This dataset consists of survey responses from a project on Public Private Partnerships (PPP), architectural design and risk mitigation in Melbourne's Southern Cross Station. As part of the project a survey of key executives working in the PPP consortium responsible for delivering the project was undertaken. The survey was structured by a framework combining the PPP life cycle, project risks and the idea that architectural design can be viewed as a research and development activity rather than simply as a problem-solving activity. The survey responses point to the fact that the architects mitigated technical and operating risks and their activities had little bearing on the project's substantial write-downs.

The data set consists of digital data (approx 1GB), including: coded data from surveys - xls spreadsheets and SPSS analysis; digital images, PDFs of public and project reports (with annotations); and Word documents of various stages of research process and analysis. Non-digital data includes: completed surveys - paper form; reports and documents associated with project.