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Collaborative Delivery from the Inside: Using Innovative Technologies to Drive Best Long-Term Value for Owners
Critical decisions (e.g., equipment selection) have often been made without owner input. With collaborative delivery, balancing initial capital expenditure and total life cycle costs becomes more transparent with the ultimate goal of delivering best long-term value.
Water Is on the Ballot
This November, voters across the country will make decisions on more than candidates. In several communities, water infrastructure is also on the ballot.
Building Trust to Advance Collaborative Delivery Together
Owners, engineers, and contractors are experiencing the benefits of collaborative delivery. An interview with new member and IMCO Construction’s preconstruction manager Todd Pike brings insight to the partnering process.
Balancing Cost Transparency and Contractor Qualifications in Collaborative Delivery
Successfully executing collaborative delivery requires balancing cost transparency with contractor qualifications—two factors that shift in priority as a project progresses.
Beyond the Bid: Creating Effective Infrastructure Projects for the Water Sector
Across the water sector, owners are under growing pressure to rehabilitate aging infrastructure, maximize limited funding, and deliver reliable improvements that will serve their communities for decades to come.
Why Aren’t All Construction Projects Successful? How We Built a Blueprint for a Winning Team
Across the country, municipality owners face a relentless challenge: delivering critical infrastructure quickly enough to outpace rising demand. Too often, expansion programs are a veritable whack-a-mole of challenges emerging faster than they can be resolved. The NTMWD’s service area is no exception, but it has found the right team to wield the mallet.
Construction Management at-Risk: Built for the Budget You didn’t Plan For
On February 13, 2026, a 14-foot-diameter penstock above Yuba Water Agency’s New Colgate Powerhouse ruptured without warning. Hundreds of acre-feet of water tore down the hillside and into the North Yuba River, and the powerhouse went offline.
Beating the Clock on PFAS Compliance Through Collaborative Delivery
Complex construction projects demand more than a traditional design-bid-build approach. When the stakes are high and the variables are many, early collaboration between the owner, engineer, and contractor is not just beneficial, it is essential.
Relationships: The Real Differentiator in CMAR Construction
CMAR has become a preferred delivery method for water and wastewater projects because it brings owners, engineers, and contractors together early to solve problems before construction begins. The benefits are well documented.
Early Certainty: How Collaborative Projects Avoid Cost Surprises
Cost certainty in projects comes from a handful of conversations that happen early, or fail to happen at all, and the difference shows up months later when two sides realize they were never aligned when it came to the cost and pricing.
