Aviation · InfrastructureCompleted 2023

Airport Parking Garage & Roadways

Six thousand parking spaces and rebuilt curbside roads, delivered while travelers kept arriving.

LocationAustin, TX

ClientConfidential

LocationAustin, TX

SectorAviation

Value$190M

Size6,000 spaces + roadways

DeliveryDesign-Build

Duration24 months

StatusCompleted 2023

Why it mattered

Transportation work happens in the middle of people's lives: their commute, their freight, their weekends. The best schedule is the one the public barely notices, and the one that holds up if a dispute ever comes.

The challenge

An airport rebuilt its curbside roadways and added a large parking garage to keep pace with passenger growth.

Traffic switches had to happen overnight, and every phase changed how travelers reached the terminal. A switch on the wrong night could have backed traffic onto the highway.

Our role

CPM Scheduling Look Ahead Planning Schedule Updates

Schedule at a glance

The whole program, on one line.

Start to finish, as the schedule tells it. For work still in progress, the bar moves with today's data date.

StartJul 2021

Duration24 months

HandoverJul 2023

Progress—

Model every phaseHold third parties to datesProtect the recordOpen to service

How we held the date

Our approach, phase by phase.

The same disciplined sequence we bring to every engagement, shaped around what this project needed most.

PHASE 01PHASE 02PHASE 03PHASE 04

PHASE 01Model every phase

Each traffic or track phase modeled with its own critical path and switch date.

PHASE 02Hold third parties to dates

Utilities, railroads and agencies tracked as external milestones with named owners.

PHASE 03Protect the record

Delay events documented as they happen, with time impact analysis while the facts are fresh.

PHASE 04Open to service

Testing, inspections and opening to traffic or revenue service planned in detail.

What changed

The difference we made

Measured the only way that matters: whether the date and the budget held.

Result 01Switched by morning

Every traffic phase was executed and reopened within its planned overnight window.

Result 02Clear of the peaks

Major switches were kept out of holiday and peak travel weeks entirely.

Result 03Spaces before the holidays

The garage opened ahead of the holiday travel season, earlier than the contract required.

Services engaged

What we brought to it

Our work in Aviation

2.01.01CPM Scheduling

Critical Path Method schedules engineered so that every date has a reason, every float value means something and every forecast can be trusted in a boardroom.

2.01.13Look Ahead Planning

Rolling look-ahead plans that translate the master schedule into ready, resourced, constraint-free work at the workface, where productivity is won or lost.

2.01.06Schedule Updates

Disciplined periodic updates that capture verified progress, explain every movement and keep the schedule an instrument of command rather than a record of hope.

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