San Francisco Airport boosts construction data reliability with Oracle Primavera

San Francisco International Airport previously managed processes and data on a project-by-project basis. As it prepared for significant rebuilds of existing terminals, SFO leaders recognized that the increased project size and complexity required the ability to manage processes and data consistently across projects. As a public agency, the airport also required better audit performance, reporting, and process control to comply with regulatory requirements. In addition, SFO had to meet the demands of its large projects—a $1.6 billion rebuild of Terminal 1 and an upcoming $2.7 billion project to overhaul Terminal 3. Airport leaders decided to implement Oracle Primavera Unifier for capital project management across its portfolio of projects. They realized the application could not only scale to meet the airport’s significant project growth, but also help automate the routing and tracking of everything from design and scope documents to drawings, submittals, and change requests. Unifier's flexible form-based workflow architecture, which triggers associated workflows upon form submission, met SFO's requirements at a time when many competitive products lacked this functionality. SFO is a user of Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform PeopleSoft. By bringing funding and actuals from PeopleSoft into Primavera Unifier, project teams remained aligned with SFO’s system of record and helped ensure accurate cost management. The application also helped the airport standardize and automate processes, such as scope change management and trade package reviews and approvals.