In July 2023, the Construction Management Association of America hosted a webinar discussing the merits and use of artificial intelligence (AI) in construction.

STEERING MAJOR CAPITAL or infrastructure projects to achieve successful outcomes involves navigating multiple risks.

We have often graduated from college or university, having learned valuable lessons about life and work.

Of all the risks engineers, contractors, and owners face on construction projects, unknown ground conditions are some of the most critical and costly.

While the quest for solutions to engineering failures is as ancient as the field of engineering, the increasing complexity of the discipline has led to a need for novel investigative methods.

As first published in the Commercial Dispute Resolution Magazine as a part of their Expert View series.

It has long been established in English law that an arbitration agreement may be separable from the principal contract of which it forms or formed part (Heyman v Darwins Ltd. [1942] AC 356).

Design-build is a project delivery method in which the owner contracts the design and construction of a project to a single entity. These types of projects shift the risk away from the owner to the design-build entity.

CRUX is HKA's integrated research program which provides unprecedented insight into the common claim and dispute causation factors for engineering and construction projects on a sectoral and regional basis.

CRUX is HKA's integrated research program which provides unprecedented insight into the common claim and dispute causation factors for engineering and construction projects...

Delay analysis methodologies divide between consideration of assessing the critical path from either a prospective, contemporaneous or retrospective view.

Multi-tiered dispute resolution clauses are an increasingly common feature in high-value domestic and international construction and engineering contracts.

On Tuesday, May 14, James Newland, partner in Seyfarth's Construction practice and co-chair of the International Dispute...

An essential principle of the client/lawyer relationship is the privileged status of information shared between them. This information might be contained in traditional media, such as hard copies...

Africa Construction Law (ACL), for which Herbert Smith Freehills partner and Joint Global Head of Construction Disputes, James Doe, is an Advisory Board member, is launching...

Typical contracts include milestones, which rely upon a sequence of works and prescribe the completion of a certain aspect of a project within a specified period.

Turmoil in the global economy is exposing an increasing number of large projects to unprecedented productivity and financial pressures. Severe microeconomic issues can arise on projects...

On 29 November 2023 the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in TUI UK Ltd v Griffiths.

To achieve ‘Zero Emission Future Urban Air Transport', rather than considering just the ‘air vehicle' in isolation as the means to achieve this result, it is important to recognise...

It has been nearly four years since the U.S. Congress enacted the $1.9 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act