Dive summary:

• After several desultory years of some work on plans for a new stadium, an opportunity for financing a 68,500-seat facility in Santa Clara, Calif., appeared, and the San Francisco 49ers foot ball team called an audible and put things into a rush.
• What makes it hang together and hopefully will prevent cost overruns and other problems the 49ers had seen in other teams' projects is a process called integrated bridging design-build.
• From 2001 until 2011, not too much happened on the project, but the team gathered its project team in 2011 to discuss what it was possible. Since then, it has been a carefully orchestrated series of downs to get the stadium up.

From the article:

For five uneasy years, the team responsible for building the San Francisco 49ers' $1 billion new home had hung together through three work hiatuses, a recession and a regrouping caused by a site relocation 45 miles to the south—from San Francisco's Candlestick Point to Silicon Valley's Santa Clara....