The Abu Dhabi International Airport Expansion was one of the largest and most complex infrastructure programs in the Gulf region — a multi-billion dollar, decade-long initiative to dramatically expand the capacity of Abu Dhabi's primary international gateway. PARSONS International served as Program Management Consultant with a team of 150–200 professionals coordinating across dozens of contractors, consultants, and government stakeholders.
Prior to the systems implementation, cost, schedule, contract, and executive reporting was done entirely manually — consuming enormous effort and introducing unacceptable risk of error on a publicly critical program. The mandate was to replace this with a robust, scalable program controls infrastructure that could serve the full 10+ year program lifecycle.
Manual reporting on a $10B program
150–200 program professionals compiling monthly executive reports entirely by hand — dozens of hours lost every month on a decade-long, publicly critical aviation program with zero tolerance for data inaccuracies.
ARES-PRISM + P6 integration
Full implementation of ARES-PRISM and PRISM G2 for contracts, variations, commitments, and baseline tracking — integrated with Primavera P6 for real-time schedule-cost alignment and automated executive reporting.
ARES-PRISM & PRISM G2 Implementation
Implemented and fully configured ARES-PRISM and PRISM G2 for the complete program controls function — Contracts Management, Variations, commitments tracking, and Primavera P6 integration.
Monthly Actuals & Commitment Import Cycle
Configured and managed the monthly cycle of actual cost imports, commitment updates, and baseline estimate tracking — always-current view of cost performance against the approved budget.
Primavera P6 Schedule Integration
Maintained the PRISM-P6 integration to keep schedule and cost data aligned — enabling earned value analysis and a unified view of program performance across both dimensions.
Executive Reporting Automation
Replaced the manual monthly executive reporting process with system-generated PRISM reports — eliminating 60–80 hours per month of manual data collection and delivering more accurate outputs.
Contracts & Variations Management
Configured Contracts and Variations modules to track all contract awards, change events, and variation orders across all contractor interfaces — full visibility of contractual budget impact.