Real Estate | Construction


We deal with all aspects of construction law, from project commencement through to completion. We provide a full-life service for all of our clients and are there to support you throughout the process. This encompasses advising upon:

New Building Projects

We can assist you in all aspects of the procurement, carrying out and the completion of a construction project. Specifically we can provide advice on:

  • complying with your obligations under the CDM Regulations prior to commencing a project

  • the selection of the form of building contract most appropriate for the project

  • the appointment of designers and professional consultants – including their terms and conditions of appointment

  • performance bonds, collateral warranties and parent company guarantees

  • dealing with the requirements of funders and achieving institutionally acceptable construction contracts

  • payment obligations under construction contracts and the applicability of the Construction Act which may impose statutory payment terms

  • on dealing with the final account

  • the construction law aspects of agreements for lease and development agreements

We have a significant amount of experience in advising in relation to residential/ commercial developments together with high value complex construction and engineering projects in the utilities, power, nuclear, rail and PFI sectors.

Construction Disputes

We can also assist you in resolving any disputes arising from a construction project. In particular we can offer advice in relation to: 

  • interim payment or final account disputes

  • contractual disputes

  • adjudication

  • high court proceedings

  • mediation

Members of the team have a wide range of industry experience and have also worked in-house and so have an understanding and appreciation of the commercial realities facing any organisation undertaking a construction, engineering or development project.


Part of your team

Working with you in long-term relationships, we understand that clients have a diverse range of in-house construction expertise and experience. Depending on the demands of the situation, we will lead from the front or advise discreetly from the background. Whatever our role, we work as part of your team to ensure that the decisions you make are based on technical excellence and are relevant to the needs of your business.


Notable work

Non-Contentious

  • Residential Scheme, South East London (approx. build value £135m)
    Acting on behalf of a residential developer on the placing of building contracts and professional appointments relating to a 650-residential-unit riverside scheme with associated infrastructure and commercial elements. Particular features included extensive remediation works and river-wall strengthening. Also acted on institutional refinancing of scheme and securing of development finance for construction of scheme.
  • Framework Agreement for construction of six datacentres
    Advising an international telecommunications and data company on the tender and finalisation of a framework agreement and the resulting project contracts in respect of a programme for the design and construction of a number of data centres and associated infrastructure for a major UK utility, involving a total construction spend in excess of £100 million over a four-to six-year period.

Contentious

We advise on all aspects of dispute resolution, including mediation, adjudication, arbitration and court proceedings in the specialist Technology and Construction Court, and those matters include professional negligence, loss and expense claims, delay and disruption, bond claims, defects and final account claims as well as issues arising out of contract determination and insolvency. We also have experience in dealing with disputes in the energy, power and renewable energy sectors.

  • Residential Scheme, Surrey
    Defended a national house-builder client from claims made by a landowner for specific performance of a development agreement relating to a 447-unit scheme in Surrey. The claim alleged loss and damage to the value of approximately £20m arising from delay to the progress of the scheme. Matter settled on the eve of trial and part of the settlement involved renegotiating the terms of the development agreement so that the parties could move forward with the scheme as a whole.
 

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