CFI Start-up Spotlight Video | Join
We are excited to share Center for Innovation (CFI)’s first “Start-up Spotlight” video, featuring the real-life experience of GCs, architects, trade partners, and clients who are successfully using Join.
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Video Overview
The video highlights Join, a collaborative project delivery platform designed to improve decision-making and transparency in construction projects. Industry leaders discuss how Join enhances collaboration, tracks project decisions, and streamlines processes for better project outcomes.
Key Points Covered:
- Transforming Construction Project Decision-making:
- Join moves preconstruction from a linear process to an iterative, collaborative approach, increasing certainty, predictability, and value.
- Acts as the central hub connecting owners, design teams, and contractors with real-time project data.
- Join Capabilities:
- Project timeline management: Collaborative, transparent milestone tracking.
- Live reporting & financial tracking: Filters live data and trends detailed soft costs.
- Historical tracking: Logs decisions, stakeholders, and reasoning.
- Enterprise-level standardization: Leverages data across multiple projects.
- Case Studies:
- Google YouTube Headquarters Expansion (400,000 sq. ft. project):
- Used Join as a single source of truth, aligning cost, sustainability, and schedule.
- Enabled transparency across all stakeholders, ensuring decisions were data-driven.
- Delivered under budget and on time.
- UCSF Health Helen Diller Hospital ($4.3B project):
- Live financial tracking for forecasting and risk mitigation.
- Historical tracking over 10 years to maintain continuity despite team turnover.
- Integrated design and construction phases, reducing meeting times by half.
- Google YouTube Headquarters Expansion (400,000 sq. ft. project):
- Industry-wide Impact:
- Encourages transparency and trust, leading to faster, risk-reducing decisions.
- Improves report quality, prompting better-informed questions from owners.
- Enhances team dynamics, making projects more enjoyable and collaborative.
People in the Video (in order of appearance):
- Discussing YouTube HQ project:
- Derek Fitzgerald: McCarthy Building Companies Sr. Vice President, San Francisco Business Unit Leader
- Introduction & brief demo of Join:
- Andrew Zukoski: CEO & Co-Founder of Join
- Discussing UCSF Health Helen Diller Hospital project:
- Fred Whitney: UCSF Health Helen Diller Hospital, Director, Project Delivery
- Brian Cheng: HDR, Strategic Project Delivery Manager & Associate
- Sue Bhattacharjee: [former] Herrero|Boldt|Webcor, Director, Preconstruction
- Trends in Collaborative Project Delivery & Closing Remarks:
- Jason Brenner: Join Head of Industry Strategy – in conversation with Andrew Zukoski