Turner and Clearstory Collaborate to Advance Transparency and Streamline Change-Order Workflows

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Turner and Clearstory Collaborate to Advance Transparency and Streamline Change-Order Workflows

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Collaboration underscores Turner's people-centered innovation and reinforces Turner's commitment to continuous improvement and empowering teams to deliver exceptional outcomes.

Turner Ventures, the corporate investment program of Turner Construction Company, announced today its strategic collaboration with Clearstory to enhance change order communication across Turner's projects. This collaboration underscores Turner Ventures' role in identifying, piloting, and scaling innovative solutions that complement Turner's capabilities. Following extensive piloting and adoption of Clearstory across Turner's portfolio, the effort reflects the company's focus on jobsite efficiency and providing the best tools for its people.

Turner has made Clearstory's cloud-based platform available to its project teams to supplement change order management processes, digitizing the traditionally manual workflows of tracking, documenting, and reconciling change orders and T&M work. The platform provides real-time visibility and collaboration capabilities that enhance Turner's project management abilities, giving teams instant access to shared information and enabling faster alignment between all project stakeholders.

To date, Clearstory has been used on more than 350 Turner projects. Teams report measurable improvements in efficiency, including reductions in administrative time, more streamlined collaboration, and accelerated decision-making.

This collaboration highlights how Turner Ventures drives industry impact by connecting employee ingenuity with external innovators. Turner Ventures invests in solutions that deliver measurable benefits for projects, clients, and the environment. Through the program, Turner makes strategic investments in groundbreaking ideas in artificial intelligence, green energy, and digitalization - while simultaneously giving startups direct access to the global construction industry.

Turner Venture's collaboration with Clearstory includes serving on their Customer Advisory Board, co-piloting features, and establishing an enterprise agreement that enables broader implementation.

"Innovation at Turner is people-centric, helping people make progress in their work by reducing friction so they can focus on what truly matters," said Jim Barrett, Chief Innovation Officer, Turner Construction Company.

"Clearstory layers onto a high-touch workflow that impacts hundreds, if not thousands, of people on our projects and makes it simpler and faster in a way that raises the bar for outcomes. That's the kind of innovation we embrace," said Maria Pantaleros, Director of Innovation, Turner Construction Company.

Turner views the Clearstory collaboration as another strategic investment in amplifying its teams' capabilities, enhancing project outcomes, and advancing commitments to purposefully transform the industry.

The collaboration is expected to strengthen transparency across the value chain, to reduce project closeout times, and improve budget and schedule certainty for clients.

For Turner employees, it represents another step in providing industry-leading tools to simplify their work and empower them to apply their expertise where it matters most.

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About Turner Ventures
Turner Ventures is Turner Construction Company's corporate investment program, backing early and growth stage startups to transform the built environment through decarbonization and digitalization. By leveraging Turner's global footprint, deep industry expertise, and real-world project access, the program accelerates innovation adoption, validates groundbreaking solutions, and unlocks new market opportunities.

About ClearstoryClearstory is the construction industry's only Change Order Communication and workflow software purpose-built to close the change order gap between GCs, subs, and owners. Our cloud-based platform brings all project stakeholders onto the same page with a shared Change Order Log, digital T&M workflows, and real-time visibility into extra work. The result? Faster approvals, better forecasting, and fewer late surprises. We're backed by Cloud Apps Capital Partners, Building Ventures, Prudence and Jackson Square Ventures. Learn more at https://www.clearstory.build.

About Turner Construction CompanyOur vision is to be the highest value provider of construction services. We deliver our services on complex and challenging building projects of all types and sizes throughout North America and in 30 countries around the world. We seek to create a healthy, prosperous, and sustainable future for our people, clients, partners, and the planet. We have earned a reputation for integrity, working safely, and driving innovation. With a focus on creating an environment where people can be at their best, be authentic, and be treated with respect and dignity, the company is widely recognized as a great place to work. The firm is a subsidiary of HOCHTIEF, an engineering-led global infrastructure solutions provider with leading positions in North America, Australia, and Europe. Turner and HOCHTIEF are part of the ACS Group, which has 157,000 employees worldwide and had revenue of €41.6 billion in 2024. To learn more about Turner, visit https://www.turnerconstruction.com.

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