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Where projects are complex, there may be a need for greater decentralisation of control in order to avoid the bureaucratic inefficiencies of central direction. Decentralisation does not, however, dispense with the need to co-ordinate activities. This paper shows how a major UK construction company successfully implemented a balance between cellular autonomy and overall project risk management in a major road project.