Sports & Entertainment · RenovationCompleted 2021

Speedway Infield Fan Zone

Race week is fixed for an entire sport. The fan zone was finished before it.

LocationDaytona Beach, FL

ClientConfidential

LocationDaytona Beach, FL

SectorSports & Entertainment

Value$54M

SizeInfield redevelopment

DeliveryDesign-Build

Duration14 months

StatusCompleted 2021

Why it mattered

Sports and entertainment run on dates printed on tickets. Opening night is not a target; it is fixed, and the schedule has to be built backward from it.

The challenge

One of the best-known speedways in the world redeveloped its infield into a new fan experience zone.

Work was possible only between scheduled racing events, and race week itself could not move. Each gap between events had to be planned as a project of its own.

Our role

Shutdown & Turnaround Scheduling Look Ahead Planning CPM Scheduling

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.

StartMay 2020

Duration14 months

HandoverJul 2021

Progress—

Work the windowsPlan the fallbackAlign every ownerRevenue spaces first

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 01Work the windows

Off-seasons and dark periods planned as projects of their own, with every day accounted for.

PHASE 02Plan the fallback

Any unfinished work planned in advance to be safe and usable for the next event.

PHASE 03Align every owner

Teams, operators and tenants working from one schedule toward one night.

PHASE 04Revenue spaces first

Premium seating and other revenue-critical spaces prioritized in the sequence.

What changed

The difference we made

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

Result 01Gates open for race week

Fans walked into the finished zone for the season's marquee event.

Result 02Every gap between events worked

Each window was planned as a short project with its own critical path, start-to-finish.

Result 03Fans never rerouted blind

Temporary access routes were issued for each event held during construction, so crowds and crews never met.

Services engaged

What we brought to it

2.01.14Shutdown & Turnaround Scheduling

Hour-by-hour shutdown and turnaround schedules that compress outage windows and return critical assets to service safely, on the date operations committed to.

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.

2.01.01CPM 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.

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