Cripps Harries Hall

Construction and engineering projects can be huge, bringing together scores of different trades and professional advisers. The legal relationships are equally complex. A serious dispute can generate unbudgeted costs and cause delay and disruption.

What we do

Hiring quality consultants and contractors and negotiating effective contracts will help to ensure the project gets off to a good start, while appropriate risk management procedures can prevent problems further down the line.

We deal with procurement, risk assessment, construction contracts and engineering contracts, partnering agreements and project vehicles, letters of intent, warranties, novation agreements, performance bonds, assignments, and purchase and supplier agreements.

Should a dispute happen we can help to resolve it as quickly and cost-effectively as possible. We try to avoid lengthy court battles, using alternative methods of dispute resolution such as arbitration, adjudication and negotiation.

Why Cripps Harries Hall?

We work closely with you, becoming an integral part of your team advising on both contentious and non-contentious issues. Most important of all, as part of an integrated team of property specialists we understand the construction world.

Next steps

For further information please contact Bill Mackie.

Our construction lawyers have a strong track record in advising clients. Here are some examples of our work:

• Successfully completing a complex PFI transaction for a University involving the negotiation of a development agreement and associated construction documentation using private finance to build around 500 bedrooms for students at the University at a build cost of over £22 million
• Advising the UK Border Agency in respect of a development agreement for refurbishment works to various floors totalling over 200,000 sq ft, including the instruction of tenant fitting-out works worth around £11 million
• Acting for the private developer of one of the largest mixed-use developments in Europe (comprising 2.2m sq ft of commercial office space, 2,750 residential dwellings, 100,000 sq ft of retail) in relation to the negotiation of their building contracts and professional appointments for their office, residential and infrastructure construction projects and providing disputes advice
• Advising a private hotel on construction documents for a refurbishment of a Grade II listed country house in the Sussex countryside
• Providing urgent advice to Town & Country Housing Group on the termination of TPC 2005 following the sudden administration of Connaught Partnerships and on the administration of Simon Wright Homes