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Membership Benefits

Membership Benefits

Advance innovation.
Reduce risk. Build the future.

The hardest part of innovation is doing it alone. Coalition membership gives you a place to test what's next before you commit capital, sharpen your investment decisions with real data, and tap research and talent at a scale no single company could justify. 

Here’s a sampling of what members can expect:

  • Moving promising ideas from concept to field validation faster
  • Making smarter investment decisions before committing significant resources
  • Identifying ways to improve how work gets done
  • Enabling more innovation capability than any single company could efficiently 
build alone
  • Building your future while shaping the industry’s direction

The Coalition is designed to make participation meaningful and flexible. Members collaborate through vertical research communities activated across program areas, engage in talent and workforce initiatives that strengthen the future of construction, and have opportunities to propose, fund, or lead research projects directly tied to company priorities.

What your company can achieve through membership

  • Technologies moved from concept, prototype, or pilot to deployment readiness faster
  • Increased assurance from testing, demonstration, and validation
  • Access to emerging technologies (“try before you buy”) before large-scale investment

  • Technoeconomic analysis supporting company decision-making
  • Shared access and reduced risk from a catalog of expertise
  • Improved confidence in capital expenditures through pilot testing and data-driven evaluation 

  • Evaluation metrics based on workflow, automation strategies, and delivery methods
  • Benefit analysis for automation and off-site execution strategies
  • Productivity-driven performance indicators from personalized testing and pilots
  • Outputs focused on what matters: cost, schedule, quality, safety, and workforce tradeoffs

  • Aggregated capital that enables larger and more ambitious research efforts
  • Dedicated multidisciplinary faculty, researchers, students, and industry collaborators
  • Leveraged university infrastructure — including the Smart Construction Lab — and industry partnerships that augment innovation investment

  • Early access to emerging talent and future workforce skills-building
  • Participation in applied research that develops employee skills and organizational knowledge
  • Influence over Coalition’s research themes and future industry practices as an industry innovation leader