From 1924 to 1930, the company excavated the foundations for the Statler Hotel & Office Building, the Aetna Headquarters, the Sears Building in Boston, the Harvard Business School, the Fogg Art Museum.

[2] The company played a key role in the Boston Big Dig project.

[3] Notable contracts during the Big Dig included the Ted Williams Tunnel (Joint venture with Morrison-Knudsen and Interbeton), the North End section of the Central Artery tunnel (CA/T) (Joint Venture with the Slattery division of Skanska USA and Tutor Perini),[4] and the Central Artery I-90/I-93 jacked tunnel which involved ground freezing.

White was part of a joint venture with Skanska Civil USA and Ecco III Enterprises on the $1.1 Billion contract to build the Catskill-Delaware Water Ultraviolet Disinfection Facility.

[6] In 2014, the firm was sold to ACS Group for an undisclosed amount after being operated by three generations of the White Family.