Federal success stories
Field-tested across federal Canada.
The disciplines that anchor the Clarity Builders model were proven on national engagements — change management before construction management, people before pixels, evidence throughout.
Change management · 2017–2018
Building Canada's Digital Foundation
How the Government of Canada’s Digital Built Government initiative field-tested the change-management disciplines that now anchor the Clarity Builders model.
The challenge. Departments worked in silos on analog, document-based processes. An estimated 90% of the sector’s data was unstructured, and roughly 96% of engineering and construction data went unused.
The insight. The barrier to digitalizing the built environment is rarely a shortage of technology — it’s a deficit of organizational capacity, clear communication, and the confidence to change.
~96%
of E&C data went unused before reform.
~20%
capex savings credited to the UK’s national BIM mandate.
“True transformation here was a cultural challenge before it was a technical one — so the work began with people, not platforms.”
— Design principle, DBGC engagement
3-tier governance
Charter Member program
National scope · EN/FR
“If a regional detachment’s priority is to fix a leaking roof, they have zero capacity to care about abstract directives concerning data schemas.”
— Operational leader, discovery phase
18
deliverables
4
workstreams
2&3
ISO 19650 streams
ISO 19650 · Sept 2025–Mar 2027
Modernizing national infrastructure
How a major Canadian federal department is putting the management of critical real-property data on a standardized, digital footing — and proving the CB disciplines along the way.
The challenge. Critical asset data was fragmented across legacy systems. Operations staff were left doing “data archaeology,” losing information at each handover.
The result. A practical, value-first program that the client chose to extend in scope — the clearest signal that the approach works.
National standard · from Oct 2025
Updating Canada's BIM playbook
Producing the detailed guidance for the National Research Council’s updated Canadian Practice Manual for BIM, aligned to ISO 19650 Parts 1–6.
The challenge. The Building Canada Act compresses major-project approvals from ~5 years to 2. Canada is the only G7 nation without a national BIM mandate, and its Practice Manual predated ISO 19650.
The approach. Change management, not construction management — engineering genuine consensus across an industry that had never managed to self-regulate, delivered through parent company Publivate Inc. as Active Secretariat.
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