Aviation · ExpansionIn progress · 2026

International Airport Terminal Expansion

A new terminal rising beside the old one, with every flight still leaving on time.

LocationDes Moines, IA

ClientConfidential

LocationDes Moines, IA

SectorAviation

Value$380M

Size265,000 sq ft

DeliveryCM at Risk

Duration42 months

StatusTarget 2026

Why it mattered

Airports do not close. Every phase must keep passengers moving, airlines flying and security working, while new capacity rises beside them.

The challenge

A growing airport is building a new terminal with additional gates, security checkpoints and concessions, while the existing terminal stays fully operational.

Airside work, security requirements and airline gate commitments make phasing as critical as construction. A phase that runs long can strand a gate an airline has already scheduled.

Our role

Integrated Master Scheduling (IMS)Milestone Planning Project Controls Management Executive Reporting

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.

StartJan 2023

Duration42 months

Target finishJul 2026

Progress—

Phase around operationsAlign every partyIntegrate the systemsSchedule readiness

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 01Phase around operations

Gates, checkpoints and roadways phased so the airport keeps running at every stage.

PHASE 02Align every party

Airlines, security agencies, concessionaires and the airport working from one master schedule.

PHASE 03Integrate the systems

Baggage, security and IT testing planned months ahead of opening.

PHASE 04Schedule readiness

Training, operational trials and transfer to operations planned to the day.

What changed

The difference we made

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

Result 01Gates kept in service

Phasing keeps the required gates and checkpoints open through every stage of the work.

Result 02Many parties, one schedule

Airlines, security and concessionaires plan their own moves against the same master schedule.

Result 03Readiness scheduled, not hoped for

Operational trials, staff training and transfer to the airport are planned activity by activity.

Services engaged

What we brought to it

Our work in Aviation

2.01.03Integrated Master Scheduling (IMS)

Integrated Master Schedules that bind design, procurement, construction and commissioning into one traceable program view, from board summary to field activity.

2.01.11Milestone Planning

Milestone frameworks that align contracts, payments, regulators and teams around the few dates that truly count, with early warning when any of them is at risk.

2.02.01Project Controls Management

Schedule, cost, change, risk and reporting designed, staffed and led by RichardBarkley, running to a disciplined monthly cycle from the first period.

2.02.09Executive Reporting

Concise, candid, decision-grade reporting for boards, executives, lenders and public stakeholders.

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