Live-Events Arena
An embedded controls team kept schedule, cost and risk in one view until a sold-out opening night.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Location
- U.S.
- Market
- Sports & Entertainment
- Our role
- Integrated project controls
- Scale
- $620M arena
- Completed
- 2025
A full controls team embedded on an arena build that had an opening-night date sold out before the steel topped out.
Opening night was announced and sold out before the steel topped out. The arena had more than 40 contract packages, a long-span roof on the critical path and a technology fit-out that could not start until the building was dry. The owner was reading weekly reports from different parties that did not agree with each other.
The approach.
- 01
Embedded controls team
Schedulers, cost engineers and a risk lead sat with the owner’s team on site, owning one integrated project controls system.
- 02
Opening night as the anchor
The Primavera P6 schedule was built back from opening night, with float to that date tracked for every package.
- 03
Earned value on every package
CPI and SPI by package showed where performance was slipping weeks before it showed up in the milestones.
- 04
Weekly risk burn-down
A live risk register with owners and dates drove weekly decisions on acceleration, resequencing and contingency.
The outcome.
“When the date is printed on a ticket, you cannot wait for the monthly report. We gave the owner the truth every week.”
Project controls director, KonradBeck
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