As fish passage practitioners many of us tend to focus on the investigation, planning, and design of quality fish passage projects. Although designing the fish passage project is a key component, constructing the project to meet design objectives is also an equally critical aspect of any project.  Conveying the intent of the design, collaborating with contractors, dealing with budget shortfalls, real-time conflict resolution, inspection, and verification of key design components are challenging.  Add on the fact that many fish passage projects include one-of-a-kind applications and many contractors don’t have adequate amounts of fish passage construction experience to begin with.  All of these factors play a part in the successful or unsuccessful implementation of fish passage projects long after the design is complete.  This session will focus on the variety of approaches that practitioners use to monitor, document, evaluate, and react appropriately to scenarios that occur at the construction site. Past case studies, lessons learned, and tools of the trade will be presented and discussed which will benefit those of us who spend time on a construction site as well as those that focus on design development.