• As many as 15 people could gather for a meeting and show they were committed to a project's success, not whatever was uppermost in their minds.
• A mix of trust, mutual respect and communication formed the glue that held the effort together and brought the planning phase to an end on schedule and a little under budget.
• In retrospect, the key qualities that brought the project to its imminent construction start were earned partnerships, trust, teamwork, involvement, transparency and BIM

From the article:

We are about to start a project that has been in the pre-construction stages for two years. We’ve used of a couple of relatively new tools during this planning period: BIM (building information modeling) and IPD (integrated project delivery). ...