A shared contract does not create a collaborative water project. A shared definition of success can.
Collaborative delivery brings utility owners, operators, engineers, builders, technology providers, and other stakeholders into the process early enough to agree on the project’s mission, priorities, and desired results.
Jeff McCord, senior director of business development for water at The Haskell Company, says that alignment allows people to work across company logos and professional disciplines instead of retreating into separate organizational interests.
The practical decisions still involve scope, cost, schedule, constructability, performance, and risk. But resolving them as one team can expose conflicts earlier, improve communication, and keep decisions focused on the project rather than any single participant.
McCord identifies trust, truth, empathy, and humility as essential parts of the process. Those qualities determine whether team members share difficult information, listen to competing perspectives, and adjust when another discipline offers a better solution.
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