Built on Collaboration

A recent article quoting the 2013 AECOM Blue Book – Collaboration: Making Cities Better headlined that Australia is the most “adversarial” construction market in the world. While Australia has the dubious honor of leading the rankings in AECOM’s survey[1], the report also highlights that the whole world – apart from New Zealand, apparently – currently [...]

What’s the impact of Requests for Information (RFIs) on the construction process? How can owners and contractors, independently and together, work to mitigate this impact and the associated risk to project delivery? The Navigant Construction Forum, a business unit of Navigant Consulting, Inc. (NYSE: NCI), addresses these questions thoroughly and incisively in a recent report, [...]

Since my first biology lesson in primary school, I’ve been fascinated with the question of why some species evolve and survive and others die out.  When I reached the university, this question was replaced with why some businesses are around for hundreds of years, while others last only weeks. Not surprisingly, I was recently drawn [...]

Many people associate Aconex with “construction”, creating the impression that we only help companies build buildings. However, many of our clients are actually constructing infrastructure for our increasingly urban worlds – roads, ports, rail, and sewage. If you’re designing buildings in open, unoccupied space, it makes sense to plan infrastructure down the same corridors and [...]