Construction and Engineering
Our core work is the provision of construction and engineering procurement advice, risk management and dispute resolution.
If you procure, supply or fund any aspect of construction or engineering works or services we can guide you through the process from start to finish. We will make sure that you are aware of the risks to be considered at each stage, how you can efficiently manage those risks and best look after your commercial interests using appropriate contract documents.
Construction and Engineering Procurement
If you do get into a construction dispute we can guide you through the various forms of dispute resolution.
Construction Dispute Resolution
We advise those involved at every level of the development and delivery of construction and engineering projects. Our clients include:
- Public sector procurers and occupiers
- Private sector developers and occupiers
- Construction and engineering contractors and sub-contractors
- Members of the professional team
- Funders
We work in all sectors but have particular expertise in the following:
- Transport – especially rail, bus and air
- Energy – particularly renewable energy and nuclear
- Waste – with particular emphasis on waste treatment and waste to energy projects
- Commercial Property and accommodation projects
The assistance we are able to offer you is due to the quality of experience we have in our team. Partners Marcus Harling and Will Gard, with nearly 50 years of construction experience between them, lead the construction and engineering team of specialist construction lawyers. A number of us have worked as civil engineers or quantity surveyors so we have significant practical experience of the issues affecting your business.
We have a national reputation for providing specialist advice on a wide variety of construction and engineering projects. We won the Energy and Infrastructure Team of the Year at the Lawyer Awards in 2009 and are recognised by all of the major legal directories as being experts in our field.
We also regularly work with other specialist Burges Salmon lawyers in the following sectors to provide a one stop shop for every type of construction or engineering project:
All Partners and Associates in
Construction and Engineering.