David White Associates is known for its ease in establishing rewarding, lasting partnered relationships, and forging highly constructive strategic alliances within both the public and private sectors.

The company’s directors were involved in partnered public and private sector projects incorporating some of the earliest usage of The New Engineering Contract within the UK. They have also acted for both client and contractor at all levels of responsibility in the partnered environment.

These early and significant experiences within the Government’s "Rethinking Construction" movement via the Latham and Egan agendas influenced David White Associates’ core business strategy, and helped shape its quality driven commitment to integrated processes and relationships.

A unique advantage of David White Associates’ understanding is derived from the core skill base and experience from both the contractor and client requirements within the partnered environment across all levels of responsibility.

In its capacity as a facilitator of whole partnership processes, David White Associates additionally:

• Assists workshops of all stakeholders to work towards better synergy on specific partnered projects through facilitated seminars
• Gives presentations on sustainable partnering to various national forums such as BRE, Movement for Innovation and SCALA
• Produces a training programme focusing on
  • Partnering techniques
  • Change management
  • Interpersonal skills and teambuilding
  • Brainstorming techniques
  • Value engineering and value management
  • Risk assessment and risk management

David White Associates’ own unique understanding of whole partnership processes has given it invaluable leadership skills. It deploys these to integrate common processes and identify economies of scale wherever possible, thus reducing costs for parties, improving efficiency, and increasing customer satisfaction.

Ensuring all party objectives are met in this way culminates in mutually satisfactory project delivery. David White Associates firmly believe this, in turn, leads to long-term repeat business to the benefit of all.