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Collaborative Delivery Momentum: 2025 Highlights and What’s Next
2025 was a pivotal year for the Water Collaborative Delivery Association (WCDA). We saw a major legislative win in California and built awareness of collaborative delivery restrictions in Texas.
How Construction Management at-Risk Strengthens Hillsborough County’s Long-Term Vision for Resilience
Hillsborough County, Florida, is in the midst of a cultural and operational shift—one that is reshaping how the utility approaches major capital work, organizational training, and long-term resilience.
Navigating Progressive Design-Build with Confidence: The Role of Owner Advisors
Owners new to progressive design-build often face significant challenges and uncertainties. These hurdles typically revolve around procurement strategies, contracts, implementation processes, and workflows.
Working Together to Protect Critical Infrastructure: A Manufacturer’s Role in Collaborative Design for Water & Wastewater Treatment Projects
Water and wastewater treatment facilities are more than just structures; they are essential public assets whose performance and longevity matter.
Meeting Industrial Water Demands Through Water Reuse Collaborative Delivery
When water resources or municipal infrastructure can’t keep up, industrial reuse projects become essential. For many companies, advanced water treatment is no longer just about sustainability goals—it’s about survival.
Clarity Drives Success: Communicating Process and Expectations in Collaborative Delivery
In recent years, water and wastewater project owners, engineers, and contractors have been increasingly turning away from legacy procurement models like design‑bid‑build, instead choosing collaborative delivery methods such as progressive design‑build or construction management at-risk.
A “Krash” Course in the Benefits of Collaborative Delivery
Shook Construction’s Great Lakes region had been eagerly waiting for collaborative delivery projects to hit the municipal water and wastewater construction industry in northeast Ohio.
Future-Ready Infrastructure: How Collaborative Delivery Enhances Long-Term Value in Water Engineering
Public works infrastructure in the US is at a pivotal moment. Many water and wastewater systems built during the infrastructure booms of the mid-20th century are reaching the end of their service lives.
Breaking Barriers: Why Ambiguity in Legislation Shouldn’t Stop Collaborative Delivery
In the world of water infrastructure, innovation often meets resistance—sometimes because it’s not allowed, but more often because it’s misunderstood.
Scope Creep: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Stop It
Scope creep is the silent budget killer: small changes that quietly pile up until the project is off track. Scope creep happens when a project’s scope expands. Sometimes gradually, sometimes all at once.
