ABSTRACT
Partnering is much misunderstood. First, it must be distinguished from ‘partnership’, which is a legal relationship between two or more persons acting together with a view to profit. Partnership is governed by the Partnership Act of 1890. Partnering is not a legal relationship at all. It is simply the name that some people have given to the way in which a building may be procured. It is not a procurement system itself, because the procurement of the building might be by means of a traditional arrangement or any combination of project management, design and build or management contracting even though partnering is being practised.
