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Integrated Practice
David Watkins
“Integrated practice allows the best ideas, regardless of authorship, to rise to the top and inform the overall process.”
David Watkins
FAIA
Chairman, President

Integrated Practice
WHR specializes in creating buildings with complicated program requirements, multilayered operational management structures and demanding project delivery needs. In the face of these rising complexities we have found that the traditional design-bid-build process no longer serves client needs. WHR employs an approach that integrates our expertise and capabilities with those of our clients and construction partners, to eliminate duplication, preserve the knowledge created at each stage of delivery, harness the combined talent of the entire team and ultimately increase the quality and speed of the final outcome.

Integrated practice allows the best ideas, regardless of authorship, to rise to the top and inform the overall process. It lets us to tap the most appropriate sources of knowledge for constructability, cost, installation and scheduling. And new software technologies are enhancing the process, allowing the entire project to be modeled pre-construction to enable more accurate quantity take-offs, more informative energy analyses, better detection of conflicts between systems, and smoother transition from conception to fabrication to installation.