"I've been waiting for 27 years to do a job like this....No more finger-pointing....It’s about trusting your partners or it doesn’t work....We all sink or swim together....Nobody cuts corners....We are ‘incentivized’ to help each other.... There is no ‘we’ or ‘they’....It’s one team....Our goals are ligned....We share risk and reward with the owner and contractor.”
Did the professionals making these comments drink construction’s magic elixir? Close to it, say NBBJ’s Jay Halleran and David Swain. Their dream job is the $360-million Palo Alto Medical Foundation’s San Carlos Center, under design by the Seattle-based architect for Sutter Health, Sacramento.