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The Collaborator

November 20, 2025

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Oklahoma City Education Session Open for Registration

Join WCDA and its sponsors in Oklahoma City, OK, on December 10, 2025, for Fundamentals of Collaborative Delivery. Open to all! No experience necessary. For more information and registration, click here.

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New 2025 Research Report Just Released

The third in a series of research reports on elements of successful collaborative delivery projects in the water sector is now available for free download!

Mastering Risk Discipline focuses on risk identification, allocation, and  management as they apply to collaborative delivery projects and whether these risk discipline steps taken early in the process had a greater influence on project success than steps taken later in the process.

Download 2025 Research Report

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New Member Spotlight: Granite Construction

Granite Construction is one of the largest diversified construction and construction materials companies in the United States as well as a full-suite civil construction provider that delivers infrastructure solutions for public and private sector clients. Brian Roll, area manager for Nevada, and Colin Crawford, area manager for California, will be representing Granite as they join us in our efforts to give the water sector the knowledge and tools needed for successful collaborative delivery projects. Welcome aboard!

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Blog Feature: 
Scope Creep: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Stop It

Scope creep is the silent budget killer: small changes that quietly pile up until the project is off track. Scope creep happens when a project’s scope expands. Sometimes gradually, sometimes all at once. It can occur with any delivery method, including design-bid-build (DBB), construction management at-risk (CMAR), design-build (DB), and progressive design-build (PDB), and it can derail the project.

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WCDA is Turning 20!

The Water Collaborative Delivery Association is commemorating two decades of driving progress in collaborative delivery for the water sector by bringing together WCDA members, utility owners, practitioners, and industry partners for three days of education and celebration and we'd love for you to join us! Please save the dates of July 27-29, 2026, in Denver, CO, for our 20th Anniversary Symposium: Celebrating the Past and Charting the Future. More details coming soon! Registration will open in February 2026.

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