Case Study: Google achieves collaborative, on-budget YouTube Campus Expansion with Join

Hyper-collaboration helps McCarthy-led team solve roadblocks on high-profile, fast-track project

The customer, Google, faced the challenge of constructing a major YouTube campus expansion to exacting standards. The McCarthy-led design-build team had to overcome two significant obstacles: soon-expiring project entitlements and the sudden shift to fully remote work caused by the global pandemic. This required a hyper-collaborative approach to meet tight deadlines and make critical decisions, prompting them to use the Join platform.

The solution implemented by McCarthy using the Join platform was to create a "one team" culture centered around a clear mission. Join served as a single source of truth, enabling fully remote Functional Teams to track key decisions, costs, and design changes with full transparency. The result was a project delivered on schedule and below the target budget, achieving LEED Platinum certification and a 50% reduction in embodied carbon.

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Derek Fitzgerald

Sr. Vice President & Business Unit Leader