Doug Bouey is a partnering veteran. The facilitator of over 80 partnering and alliance workshops, Doug has promoted collaboration and opened the way to new and more productive ways of building since he started partnering work on the Fanning Centre in 1994.

Doug has helped to create a constructive climate for some very pivotal projects including:

• Snap Lake Diamond Mine: $1b in a forbidding climate, pulled back on schedule to a very successful completion for a demanding client
• Honua Kai: $1B new condos on Maui: with Don Kasian as co-facilitator
• Quest Alliance: Radical integrations of oil and gas facilities design and construction for Quantel Engineering and B P Amoco. Shortened hookup of gas facilities by 1/3.
• Design team for the Edmonton International Airport Expansion
• Water and waste water facility for the Municipality of Lake Country, near Kelowna, a project that had once threatened the viability of the community and, thanks to Earth Tech, Maple Reinders and a dedicated team, was completed to everyone’s delight
• Alberta Court Facility: $250m in downtown Calgary: Ahead of schedule!
• $500M Walter C. MacKenzie Hospital (U of A Hospital, Edmonton) Redevelopment, including 6 individual projects – all constructed while the hospital was fully performing
• 1 Service Battalion HQ at CFB Edmonton, constructed for $21M around a huge aircraft hanger during the awful 1998 winter – delivered on time in 10 months.
  

He has worked across the West in everything from significant involvement in the pioneering partnering initiatives of the Defence Department at CFB Edmonton, to waterworks, to shopping centres, from the pre-design, and design phases, to construction, and midcourse correction, and, most gratifying, many celebrations of completed, well-done jobs. Doug has also helped design and bring about longer haul strategic alliances in the oil and computer industries.

“Oil and gas facilities engineering have carried the principles of partnering philosophy far beyond the usual terms of construction partnering. My indepth experience with some of the most adventurous and far reaching examples in the Calgary environment gives me a sense of the possibility and the future of construction partnering that is otherwise simply unavailable. My background as a lawyer with considerable experience in drafting and working with construction companies, owners, designers in both the drafting of agreements and dealing with construction disputes and litigation covers some 20 years and, while not the backbone of my practice, is very extensive and multifaceted. Now I have moved on from law and call myself a ‘recovering lawyer’. My work is almost exclusively in helping groups and executives accomplish what will be deeply satisfying.”