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    Building one of the world’s most luxurious stadiums required meticulous planning and careful management of a very vocal stakeholder. ) eC son conta from the ten in 2005 and broke ground the next year dy EVER-EXPANDING SCOPE CREEP ‘As construction progressed, the proj- ect ceam managed, at the peak, more shan 100 subcontractors and almost 2,200 employees, a5 well as vendors in 10 states and 12 countries, It also had to adapt to some serious scope is about the only standard aspect of —cteep that saw the total workload the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium in increase by 60 percent and the bud- Arlingvon, Texas, USA. Featuring the get climb by US$450 million, largest video board in the world, the Manhatean Construction built sig- planets largest freestanding roof and nificant lead time into each step in enough high-end amenities to make athe schedule, allowing the team 0 monarch blush, the stadium is rede- adjust to any design changes with- fining the sports experience for fans, out interrupting work. That deci- house that a football game breaks design went through 300 revisions, 6 0 “We joke that its an expensive sion proved vital, as the original cout in eight times a year” says Mark with 5,500 clarifications made to t Penny, project executive at Manhat- the drawings. Early on, for example, pe reen tan Construction Company, Dallas, the excavation depth changed from “Texas, USA, and the project manager 25 c0 50 feet, rendering the original The amount workload for the stadium construction 36 months budgeted for that stage increased as a result With a capacity of more than inadequate. By working with the city of scope creep 100,000 people, the US$1.1 billion of Avlington, which was responsible stadium is the new home of the for purchasing and clearing the land, National Football League's (NFL) the team was able to begin excava- Sa AED Dallas Cowboys—but i also will tion early, and the projects end date US$45Q caikeriratyinae at si Sieg a and boxing matches, rodeos and rock “We knew we were going to have mM lio n concerts, Next month, i¢will host the co deal with drawings of the interior LO Super Bowl, one of che main goals of design clements that were always The increase in the budget asthe project. evolving.” Mr. Penny says. “There 2 result of scope creep ‘Though the Cowboys werent slated was so much work to do on the exca- to play on their new field until 2009, vation, working on the foundation Manhattan Construction began devel- piers and on the steel, so we were oping a long-range project schedule in not concerned with the carpet at that 2001. The company received aconstruc- point. ‘There was no way to know >FROM KICKOFF ?P THE GOAL LINE September 2006 Bottoming out April 2006 completed October 2007 Groundbreeking Topping out of concrete structure July 2008 Fixed roof completed

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