KIEWIT DELIVERS A TRANSFORMATIVE PEDIATRIC FACILITY USING INEIGHT
Centralized Program Controls Approach Ensures Timely Progress on Multi-Stakeholder Project
Global construction leader Kiewit has successfully delivered a state-of-the-art pediatric behavioral health facility in Omaha, Nebraska. The innovative, 107,000 square foot Behavioral Health & Wellness Center at Children's Nebraska opened in January 2026, providing vital mental health support to children in Nebraska, and across the Midwest, for years to come. The Kiewit team relied on InEight Project Controls throughout the project to help them coordinate across multiple stakeholders and ensure that the revolutionary, $114M project was delivered on schedule and on budget. The Behavioral Health & Wellness Center in Omaha offers comprehensive mental health services for children, including inpatient, outpatient, and urgent care. When Kiewit Building Group took on the large project, it understood the urgency of delivering the new facility, especially in the face of troubling youth mental health challenges in Nebraska and knew that thoughtful collaboration would be key to getting the job done—especially with the number of internal and external stakeholders involved. Kiewit successfully completed the high-profile project on time and on budget, thanks to the powerful benefits offered by InEight Project Controls:
- Centralized visibility for all stakeholders—better change management, team alignment
- Reduced manual effort, streamlined workflows—resulting in increased efficiency
- Enhanced reporting and planning—resulting in better field performance, tighter budget and schedule control
KIEWIT AT A GLANCE
LOCATION:
North America
REVENUE:
$16.8 billion
EMPLOYEES:
31,800
INEIGHT PRODUCTS
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A VITAL MISSION. MULTIPLE STAKEHOLDERS. A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH.
Sometimes a project results in more than just a beautiful new building—sometimes you’re delivering on a mission. The medical teams behind the Behavioral Health & Wellness Center at Children's Nebraska embrace a “no wrong door” philosophy, ensuring that all children suffering with their mental health are seen and supported. The new facility was designed with that philosophy in mind; a special place where all children can seamlessly receive comprehensive care under one roof. It’s a new care model. As Renee Rafferty, MS, LIMHP, LPC, Senior VP of Behavioral Health & Wellness at Children’s Nebraska explains in an article from Children’s Hospital Association, “It's not a bunch of singular programs located in one building. It’s an integrated system of services ensuring kids can move through the continuum of care with the support they need, without repeating assessments for each transition.” Kiewit understood that vision when it won the contract to design and build the 107,000 square foot facility. Because so many designers, sub-contractors, and stakeholders were involved in the three-year, $114M project, Kiewit knew it needed to avoid disconnected, manual processes and project control tools—and like the facility they were building—adopt a centralized, integrated approach that would keep everyone aligned and focused on positive outcomes. Kiewit turned to InEight, its go-to software solution, for comprehensive project controls that would provide a single source of truth and help the team:
- Coordinate across multiple stakeholders
- Manage complex financials and contracts
- Organize short interval and five-week planning schedules effectively
- Track changes and quality issues efficiently
Kiewit used several integrated InEight project control modules to help the team coordinate and effectively manage the full project lifecycle, and the centralized, unified approach delivered significant benefits.
BUILDING AN EFFICIENT, ADAPTIVE SCHEDULE
Getting crews to give up familiar tools and adopt new ones can be challenging. At the beginning of the project, Kiewit initially used Excel for five-week planning, but they’ve since evolved to using InEight Schedule to improve upstream and downstream planning. The transition was very smooth. After a few sessions, the team was fully trained and quickly rebuilt the schedule in InEight. As Superintendent Joshua Brown notes: “InEight Schedule offers the deep scheduling functionality of more complex, difficult tools, but with a familiar interface similar to Microsoft Project, so it’s really the best of both worlds. It’s easy to learn and use, so the experienced field crews like it.”
HITTING MILESTONES, MANAGING CHANGE EFFECTIVELY
The three-year project progressed rapidly and achieved key milestones, including hospital staff moving in equipment and medical supplies, a ribbon-cutting ceremony, and the facility opening to patients the week of January 5, 2026. As Brown notes, in 2025, the hospital staff walked the job to get a feel for it, and often requested small changes and additions, which the team tracked in InEight Change to be sure nothing was overlooked and that everything was accounted for. “Oftentimes, they requested things like extra outlets, for convenience,” says Brown. “Since the team would come back and handle that after the job was turned over, we tracked those items as client change requests in InEight.” Once a change was executed with the client, the Project Engineer and Project Controller update the associated sub-contractor’s contract value and updated the prime contract value with the client. The changes were also reflected in the schedule. Project Engineer Josh Ryan recalls the challenge of tracking change orders on past jobs using Excel and SharePoint, noting: “It was very inefficient.” InEight Document also played an important role on the project in keeping teams aligned about changes. It acts as a centralized repository for drawing revisions and other important files that Kiewit crews and trade partners can access via mobile devices when working in the field.
“With InEight Change, we can now track everything in one place. Anyone can access and see the updates and things flow together automatically through integrations, so cost controls are tied to change management.”
- Josh Ryan, Project Engineer, Kiewit
NAVIGATING HANDOFFS AND WEATHER IMPACTS
As the job neared completion and schedules became more compressed, smooth handoffs became even more important—and unpredictable weather could become a bigger challenge. Kiewit originally used a whiteboard for short interval planning, but later used InEight Schedule to maximize productivity and track weather impacts, so the job could be completed on time. Superintendent Joshua Brown shared an example: “Before pouring concrete in a small courtyard, we need to form the area, then a trade partner needs to put the utilities underground, then we need to strip the forms—and weather can change everything. We use short interval planning in InEight Schedule to keep teams aligned and knock out the full task within the allotted timeframe, while mitigating weather impact in the schedule.”
“If we have an activity that’s lagging, or we need to break it apart, the short interval planning in InEight Schedule is very helpful.”
- Joshua Brown, Superintendent, Kiewit
EFFECTIVE REPORTING AND PLANNING KEEP TEAMS PRODUCTIVE
To maximize performance, Kiewit used InEight reporting during weekly meetings with the field crew. The reports pulled data across InEight modules to deliver a full picture that helped the team have productive conversations. “We rely heavily on InEight’s built-in reports,” says Project Engineer Josh Ryan. “They help us have a good, productive conversation on the job side and allow us to maintain a strong pulse on how our crews are performing—and not just from the financial side. For example, the labor productivity report lets us review the crew performance on the job for the prior week. We review it with our staff and job team on a weekly basis.”
“We rely heavily on InEight’s built-in reports. They help us have a good, productive conversation on the job side and allow us to maintain a strong pulse on how our crews are performing—and not just from the financial side.”
- Project Engineer Josh Ryan, Kiewit
DRIVING CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT FROM PROJECT TO PROJECT
Thanks to InEight, long after the Behavioral Health & Wellness Center was delivered, Kiewit can continue to use data from that project to benchmark and improve future jobs. The team initially used a different quality tracking tool, but ultimately switched to InEight Completions. Because all projects within Kiewit Building Group now use Completions to track quality issues, the organization can find commonalities and learn from each job to drive continuous improvement. “When all our projects within Kiewit Building Group track issues through InEight Completions, we can all start referencing each other's quality issues and try to learn from them. That helps us become an even stronger organization,” says Joshua Brown, Superintendent.
KEY OUTCOMES IN THE OFFICE AND IN THE FIELD
With InEight’s comprehensive, integrated project controls, the Kiewit team created a more connected, efficient way of working that improved coordination, visibility, and productivity, including:
- Streamlined workflows across modules – information flowed seamlessly between functions, reducing rekeying and centralizing project data
- Improved coordination with subcontractors and designers – increasing efficiency across teams
- Enhanced visibility into project performance and financials – feeding benchmarking across the entire company and driving continuous improvement
- Reduced manual effort – a unified platform replaced time-consuming, disconnected processes, increasing efficiency
- Better planning and field execution – detailed reporting boosted productivity, while short interval planning ensured smooth handoffs
“Time management is everything to us. InEight is such a streamlined solution and gives us a look at all phases of the project with automation and efficiency. It’s critical for us and saves a lot of time that otherwise would have been very, very manual.”
- Chris Powell, Project Controller, Kiewit
A MODEL FOR COMPLEX, MISSION-DRIVEN PROJECT DELIVERY
By moving away from manual processes through its use of InEight Project Controls, Kiewit Building Group delivered a high-quality, highly-impactful community resource on schedule and on budget. When the Behavioral Health & Wellness Center opened its doors in January 2026, the project stood as a powerful testament to the value of comprehensive, integrated project controls, as well as a comprehensive, integrated approach to improving children’s behavioral health.
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