INFRASTRUCTURE CONSULTANCY BASELINE CONTROLS $720M AIRPORT PROJECT WITH INEIGHT
Visibility into budget and progress across hundreds of sub-contractors keeps a complex, multi-year construction project on track
Photos by: Tor O. Iversen / Avinor
Baseline AS is a Norwegian consultancy that specializes in the end-to-end delivery of heavy civil projects. It provides strategic advice and operational resources in project control, planning and production follow-up for complex infrastructure projects. Baseline consultants prepare full-scale plans utilizing their unique methodological approach combined with modern tools, helping clients assess project risks for major infrastructure projects. Baseline manages work for its clients worldwide, including projects in Australia, Finland, Norway, Sweden, UAE, UK, and the US
BASELINE AT A GLANCE
LOCATION:
Oslo, Norway
INDUSTRIES:
Heavy Civil Projects
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The new Bodø Airport in Norway will take 7 years and $720 million to complete. To manage the project, state-owned aviation agency Avinor selected the Norwegian consultancy Baseline AS. Using InEight software for real-time visibility into project costs and progress, Baseline completed the first phase of the shared-risk project under budget. Baseline uses InEight to manage schedules, costs, changes, reporting, and more.
ABOUT AVINOR With nearly 2,800 employees, Avinor is a wholly owned state limited company under the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications, responsible for 43 state-owned airports and, through a subsidiary, national air navigation services. The company provides safe and efficient transportation for around 50 million air passengers annually, half of whom travel to and from Oslo Airport. Baseline AS is a Norwegian consultancy that specializes in the end-to-end delivery of heavy civil projects. It provides strategic advice and operational resources in project control, planning and production follow-up for complex infrastructure projects. Baseline consultants prepare full-scale plans utilizing their unique methodological approach combined with modern tools, helping clients assess project risks for major infrastructure projects.
SOLUTION BENEFITS:
Provides real-time visibility into project costs and progress
Supports alignment between project delivery teams with a single version of the truth for productivity information
Enables flexible control and helps delivery partners work together
SEEKING A CLEAR VIEW
Avinor, the state-owned aviation agency of Norway, has embarked on a seven-year, USD 720 million (NOK 7,2B) project to build a replacement for the existing airport at Bodø. The new Bodø Airport, designed to serve 2.3 million passengers a year, is expected to become operational in 2029. Its construction will require 3.5 million square meters of bedrock and earth to be moved – the equivalent of approximately 1,400 Olympic swimming pools. To manage the complex, multi-year project, Avinor selected Baseline, a Norwegian consultancy. Baseline, along with two partners, has responsibility for all aspects of project control.
“To avoid surprises and enable us to make the right adjustments as we go along, it’s vital for everyone to have visibility of cost and progress at all times.”
- Mats Nyland, Managing Partner, Baseline
The unique terms of the contract require exceptional levels of insight into progress. “The commercial model is based on shared risk,” says Mats Nyland, Managing Partner at Baseline. “Collectively, we set a target price. If the contractor comes in under budget, we share the savings; if they exceed the budget, we share the extra cost. To avoid surprises and enable us to make the right adjustments as we go along, it’s vital for everyone to have visibility of cost and progress at all times.” Baseline knew the project controls software for the project would be critical to success, given the scale and complexity of the project. “For Avinor, a project of this scale is very rare,” comments Tomas Warnqvist, Senior Manager at Baseline. “Naturally, their toolbox was not ready for the challenge of managing between 500 and 700 subcontractors, all of which will need information about the schedule.”
PROJECT SCALE AND COMPEXITY
Using InEight solutions, Baseline delivers the required transparency and visibility on cost and progress to all project participants.
USD 720 million project to build a replacement for the existing airport at Bodø
Construction will require the equivalent of approximately 1,400 Olympic swimming pools of bedrock and earth to be moved
The new Bodø Airport will serve 2.3 million passengers a year
FINDING THE RIGHT PROJECT CONTROLS SOFTWARE
Avinor sought an integrated software solution to enable cross-team collaboration throughout the project’s multiple phases. The RFP for the public-private airport project drew interest from several vendors. After creating a demo project to and inviting responses to allow them to evaluate solution quality and pricing, Avinor selected InEight. “The RFP found that the InEight solutions would align with our vision of integrated project delivery with open and easy information exchange,” says Tomas Warnqvist.
FAST AND EASY ROLLOUT
Baseline moved quickly to start using solutions from InEight’s modular, cloud-based portfolio. The first solution deployed was InEight Control, to which Baseline has added Estimate, Plan, Progress, Change, Schedule, Design, Report, and Explore. “In the simplest terms, we are using InEight to keep track of two key things: time and money,” says Mats Nyland. “Rolling out InEight was quite simple: there’s nothing to install, so all we really needed to do was determine where would we be storing information and who would have access to it.”
“InEight is like the umbrella over this project. Everything feeds into InEight for visibility, control, and reporting.”
- Tomas Warnqvist, Senior Manager, Baseline
A SINGLE VERSION OF THE TRUTH
Airport construction began after a 10-month design phase that included light construction. Rolled-up cost estimates from the main contract are fed into InEight Estimate every month for benchmarking and then flow into InEight Control, Plan, and Progress. InEight Schedule is used to provide updated schedules of work to relevant subcontractors, and InEight Change manages change reports. “InEight is like the umbrella over this project,” says Tomas Warnqvist. “The lead contractors use different tools in some cases, but everything feeds into InEight for visibility, control, and reporting.” Power BI dashboards populated with data from the project’s InEight solutions will be displayed on large screens to keep everyone informed about progress. Using InEight solutions, Baseline delivers the required transparency and visibility on cost and progress to all project participants. “Anyone who has worked on a heavy civil project will know the pain of trying to work with numerous different versions of PDFs, Microsoft Project plans, and Excel spreadsheets that are all disconnected from each other,” says Mats Nyland. “With a single version of the truth available from InEight, everyone knows they are looking at the right version. And any new information is automatically shared with the appropriate people.” Tomas Warnqvist adds: “The InEight solutions avoid a lot of noise and wasted man-hours that otherwise come from people viewing information from different angles and not seeing the same thing.”
DELIVERING UNDER BUDGET
Baseline used InEight to benchmark the target price and then monitor and control the project; such visibility contributed to the delivery of the first phase under the expected budget. “Using our framework within InEight, we can easily and immediately see when the project is deviating from the desired course,” says Mats Nyland. “When we were applying our methodology with tools like Project and SharePoint, it felt like trying to hold water in our hands. With InEight, we have a robust system that keeps all the information in the right place. And with everyone using a single system, the quality of information is naturally higher.” InEight empowers Baseline to maintain a top-level overview of project status while retaining the ability to drill into granular detail on every invoice and every paycheck involved in the project. This transparency is vital given the shared-risk model.
“With InEight, we can easily and immediately see when the project is deviating from the desired course.”
- Mats Nyland, Managing Partner, Baseline
OPTIMIZING OUTCOMES
“A big benefit of using InEight is that there are no surprise outcomes: you can collaborate and optimize and make changes along the way in a cohesive manner, so that you're getting the best outcome,” says Tomas Warnqvist. “Without InEight, it would have been much harder to have a single version of the truth for the project, and we would have required many more consultants to control it.” Mats Nyland concludes: “The visibility provided by InEight is helping us deliver the Bodø Airport project within budget and within schedule.”
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