"Identifying and managing your legal expectations to avoid pitfalls in an increasingly demanding project role"

July 2011

In this paper, Nicholas Gould reviews professional liability with a particular emphasis on modern project management practice. In reality, this means a traditional form of forward thinking construction professionals (quantity surveyors, now commercial cost managers, or some other derivation, building surveyors, architects, engineers) that have expanded into the area of project management and those acting as employer’s agents (there are of course those who have qualified as project managers (PM) or taken a masters degrees in the subject).

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"Project security & guarantees"

May 2011

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"The Defective Premises Act 1972"

November 2011

Peter Collie, in a paper given at the latest Fenwick Elliott Construction Law Update Seminar, reviews the Defective Premises Act looking at what damages are recoverable under the Act, specifically focusing on claims for loss of rent.

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"The legalities of being sustainable"

23 February 2010

Barry Hembling presented this paper, written by Simon Tolson at the RICS Sustainability Conference, in which he deals with the sustainability requirements for new build and re-fits contracts.

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"Sustainable development in the construction industry"

30 September 2008

In an introductory paper given to the Lexis Nexis Conference on Sustainable Development in the Construction Industry, Simon Tolson sets out to answer the question “what is sustainable development?” In doing so, he reviews sustainable development policy and its basis in theory considering for example, the Equator principles and the European Principles for the Environment as well as a number of UK Government initiatives.

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"Duties and liabilities of construction professionals"

7 November 2006

Victoria Russell, in a paper given at the third Fenwick Elliott seminar entitled “Capital Projects in the Education Sector”, discusses the duties and liabilities of construction professionals from architects, engineers and quantity surveyors to project managers and facilities managers. The paper considers duties and liabilities owed to the employer, duties owed in tort and to third parties as well as the duties and liabilities of in-house construction professionals.

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