The ReAlignment Group, Ltd. (TRG) is based in Denver, Colorado, with field offices in San Diego, Dallas, and Chicago.

TRG is a unique provider of facilitation, training and coaching services for lean design and construction implementation, lean partnering, lean tool implementation, organizational realignment, team building, collaboration, lean construction development and Integrated Project Delivery.

Thirty-five miles south of Los Angeles (CA) is Orange County’s only commercial service airport: John Wayne International.  The Terminal C expansion project started July 22, 2009 with a 24-month planned completion.  The Airport authority’s goal was to be fully operational by Thanksgiving 2011 with a Grand Opening planned for 11/11/11. McCarthy Building Company was selected as General Contractor for Terminal C, but as owner changes  mounted, McCarthy found itself three months behind with that  relentless 11/11/11 completion date jetting toward them.

Late in the game – on May 27, 2011 – McCarthy began implementing the Last Planner® System.  Because the key to completion was startup of the 9 air handlers, the first phase pull was Startup, Testing and Balance of the first air handler.  Weekly Work Planning began the following week.  Thirty-three calendar days later the first AHU started up; the ninth was completed on 8/4/11, thus allowing Test & Balance and Fire Alarm Testing to be signed off on time.

When the Owner saw how reliably the trade contractors were performing – with PPC’s of 81% to 88% in the initial six weeks – JWA itself began using Last Planner® System with its Multiple Prime Contractors who were installing the nation’s first CUPPS system (central computer system used by all the airlines).

The Result:  Substantial Completion as planned on 11/11/11 and Terminal C fully operational November 20, 2011 – four days before Thanksgiving.