Education · New ConstructionCompleted 2022

University Athletic Complex

The first home game was printed on season tickets before the site was even cleared.

LocationJacksonville, FL

ClientConfidential

LocationJacksonville, FL

SectorEducation

Value$36M

SizeStadium, fieldhouse & track

DeliveryDesign-Build

Duration14 months

StatusCompleted 2022

Why it mattered

Campuses run on dates that do not move: the first day of school, the start of term, the opening game. We plan backward from those days and tell boards early, and plainly, whether they will hold.

The challenge

A private university announced a new athletic complex, with grandstand, fieldhouse and track, and scheduled its first home game before construction began.

Turf, sports lighting and grandstand steel all carried long lead times, and the site sat over poor soils that needed ground improvement before anything else could start. Either risk alone could have consumed the entire float.

Our role

CPM Scheduling Resource Loading 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.

StartMay 2021

Duration14 months

HandoverJul 2022

Progress—

Fix the finishRetire the unknowns earlyReport in plain languagePlan move-in as work

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 01Fix the finish

The academic calendar set as the immovable completion, with every milestone worked backward from it.

PHASE 02Retire the unknowns early

Ground conditions, permits and long-lead items confronted in the first sixty days, while there is still time to react.

PHASE 03Report in plain language

Monthly updates and one-page summaries written for boards, faculty and donors, not just for builders.

PHASE 04Plan move-in as work

Furniture, technology, labs and faculty move-in scheduled as a critical sequence of their own.

What changed

The difference we made

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

Result 01Home opener played at home

The complex hosted its first game on the date printed on the tickets.

Result 02Long leads under watch

Every critical procurement was tracked from submittal to delivery, and none reached site after its install date.

Result 03Biggest unknown retired first

Ground improvement was pulled into the first sixty days, removing the largest risk while there was still time to react.

Services engaged

What we brought to it

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.

2.01.10Resource Loading

Labor, equipment and cost loading that turns a schedule into a feasible plan for people, plant and cash, and the foundation for earned value.

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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