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Building Success: The Crucial Role of Unified Teams in Progressive Design-Build Projects
The first step in a successful progressive design-build (PDB) project is to focus on building a unified team. In traditional design-bid-build projects, the owner, engineer, and contractor often work individually, each driven by their own goals and expectations.

Plunging into Success: Reflections from an Award-Winning Owner’s First Progressive Design-Build Program
In 2017, after years of planning, Silicon Valley Clean Water embarked on a journey that would become the organization’s largest accomplishment to date: using PDB to deliver the Regional Environmental Sewer Conveyance Upgrade (RESCU) program.

Deeply Engrained Paper Use Is Impeding Construction’s Digital Shift
It’s not news that the construction industry has been undergoing a digital transformation journey. Digitizing the industry comes with the novel mission of creating safer workplaces, increased margins, and better quality.

When Is Collaborative Delivery Faster than DBB—and When Is It Slower?
Considering the topic, this has the potential to be a very short blog post. After all, we’re looking at comparing the schedule of collaborative delivery versus design-bid-build delivery.

Risk = Dollars: Minimizing Owner Cost through the Sharing of Risk
We have certainly lived through some extraordinary times since March 11, 2020, when the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic.

Utilizing Prefabrication to Reduce risk in Collaborative Delivery water Projects
Using collaborative delivery for water projects addresses the growing demand in the United States for sustainable and efficient water infrastructure.

Maximizing the Value of Collaboration During Design
An essential benefit of collaborative delivery is the ability for the designer and contractor to interact during the design phase.

How to Solve Project Budget Challenges
Has anyone been left scratching your head wondering, “Why is my project over budget? What could I have done better to align project budget and cost?”

Strategic Partnering: Benefits of Onboarding Key Suppliers Early
In an effort to pinpoint what makes a successful collaborative delivery (CD) project, numerous blog posts and research papers have identified common elements that should be pursued. Elements such as trust, transparency, teamwork, and strategic…

Progressive Design-Build Starts With Trust
Have you ever been in a situation where you had to work with someone you did not trust? It’s not a pleasant experience, is it? Trust is the foundation of any successful relationship, and it’s no different when it comes to PDB projects.