Construction Related Disputes

The construction team at Davis Woolfe provide comprehensive dispute resolution services to the construction industry.  We regularly advise developers, investors, main contractors, subcontractors and construction professionals, enabling them to resolve their disputes as efficiently and effectively as possible.

We can advise on a wide range of construction and engineering disputes including issues related to:

• Claims under the Defective Premises Act 1972 and Building Safety Act 2022
• Latent and patent defects in quality of work and materials and remedial options
• Project delays including:
  • Requests for extensions of time and “Relevant Events”
  • Critical path analysis and concurrent delays
  • Claims for liquidated damages
  • Claims for loss and expense, prolongation and disruption
  • Claims for overhead and profit
  • Valuation of variations
  • Final accounts and retentions
  • Delays, or failure, in making interim and final payments
  • Adjudication under the Construction Act 1996
  • Interpretation of contract terms, including JCT, NEC and RIBA standard forms
  • Contract novations and assignments
  • Exclusion and limitation clauses
  • Suspension or cessation of Works by the contractor
  • Nuisance claims including noise, vibration and damage to adjacent properties
  • Party wall issues
  • Compliance with the Pre Action Protocol for Construction and Engineering Disputes
  • Bonds, warranties and guarantees
• Insurance disputes involving policies such as:
  • Contractor’s All Risks
  • Public and Employer’s liability
  • NHBC type warranties

We also advise in relation to a wide range of construction related professional negligence disputes involving architects, building and quantity surveyors, structural and civil engineers, valuers and environmental remediation.

We can advise clients regarding the selection, instruction and management of a network of experts in these fields that have extensive experience in writing persuasive reports and giving evidence at trial in the County and High Courts.

We have extensive experience of a range of forums including mediation, adjudication, arbitration, the Technology & Construction Court and the Court of Appeal.

For advice and further information in relation to our construction dispute resolution services, please feel free to contact our London Construction Partner, Jerome O’Sullivan, by email at: [email protected].