A design partnership featuring Atkins, Balfour Beatty, Mott MacDonald and WSP has secured the ISO44001 international accreditation for collaboration.

The Strategic Design Consultant Partnership (SDCP) partnership brings together designers and engineers from four companies to encourage a new level of openness, collaboration and innovation not previously seen within the construction industry while simultaneously creating a new and smarter way of working to deliver safer and more efficient solutions.

This accreditation helps organisations build and develop effective competitive business relationships based upon a collaborative approach.


Atkins and Balfour Beatty also form part of another group which has achieved this standard. The Highways Delivery Community (HDC) brings together Balfour Beatty, Chevron, Hanson, HW Martin, Tarmac, Atkins and Aggregate Industries. It harnesses the knowledge and expertise of leading highways experts to deliver innovative, new solutions; providing specialist, reliable, sustainable and creative advice with a focus on safety, efficiency and quality.

Both partnerships will utilise the ISO44001 accreditation framework to explore and implement new ways of working across the industry; sharing resources, opportunities and successes to generate efficiencies, increase safety and deliver value for customers.

Catherine Crespin, Balfour Beatty's Group Head of Customer Experience, said: "This is a great achievement for our SDCP and HDC partnerships and testament to their continuous drive to improve collaborative working across the industry.  

"Through these collaborative new working methods, we will realise new innovative solutions which will deliver maximum value for our customers while enhancing our performance through improved processes and working methods."

(CM/MH)