Dive Brief:

• Nothing new about partners' having to collaborate to make construction projects work, but technology takes it to a new place.
• Integrated project delivery is one of the recent innovations in contracting that make collaborative software programs essential.
• Building information modeling is a big part of the new regime.

Dive Insight:

There are various examples of collaboration technology, like a product called Aconex that is being used to keep all the parties on the same page during bidding on a big redevelopment project. The same project also will need technology to keep the partners pulling together efficiently during a 10- to 15-year effort.