Collaboration is increasingly critical to managing well construction risk. While technology produces remarkable results, the most significant gains in wellbore construction process safety are being achieved across traditional disciplines, products and services. Bringing drilling contractors, manufacturers and service companies into the well planning process at an early stage captures resources that are rich in expertise and technology, and orients them towards the overall objective of constructing a high integrity wellbore to total depth. While this is not novel, it is ever more imperative to ensuring project success.