That is difficult, time consuming and costly, and represents a significant risk to the project.
Andrew Graham, co-founder of OC Robotics in Bristol, said the news would be a huge reassurance to European colleagues and partners in consortia bidding for European commission funding that having a UK partner in those projects would not be a risk to the project.
To assess the risk to the project or process supply chain arising from those interactions the relevant stakeholders must be identified.
The absence of resources is an extra risk to the project, and it should be recorded as such in the first project plan.
However, sensitivity analysis indicates that there exists high elasticity in some relevant variables such as fuel prices and operational costs which could increase considerably risk to the project.
Sir David said the speed that HS2 was passing through the Westminster legislative process was "a risk" to the project, and urged legislators not to delay the project unduly.
To understand the river history and help assess the risk to the project, the fluvial/debris-flow sequences exposed along the 5 km-long river reach upstream of the buried tunnel entrance were examined, and a total of 38 radiocarbon dates were obtained for chronological constraints.
The letter, sent on 24 May by the permanent secretary of the DfT, Philip Rutnam, to then transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin, raises "reservations" over the project and cites "a number of significant risks to the delivery of the project".
January 2014: Minutes of a Whitehall meeting say friction between the DWP and Cabinet Office is causing "high-level" risks to the delivery of the project.
