2026 in construction: a look ahead
19 February 2026
Insight Hub
4 November 2024
Back in July we took a look at what the King’s Speech had in store for the construction industry. We saw grand plans for boosting infrastructure and construction with planning reform and government-led initiatives like GB Energy. What we didn’t see at that point was the funding behind them – so what did the Budget…
Read more24 July 2024
With a new government avowing to ‘get Britain building’, the construction industry has cast a keen eye over the contents of the first King’s Speech of this parliament and will be thinking of what comes after. We look at the key pledges in housebuilding and infrastructure and what might happen next. Housebuilding Arguably taking centre…
Read more2 July 2024
Smash and grab adjudications arise when a contractor under a construction contract has made a payment application to which the employer has yet to respond with a payment or pay less notice. As a result, the contractor can accrue a right to payment for sums claimed without any reference to the substance of the sums…
Read more17 January 2024
Smash and grab adjudications are a perpetual thorn in employers’ sides. A claim will pop up that a pay less notice has been missed and significant sums are now owed. Employers then need to cobble together procedural arguments to resist the claim. That’s hard enough as it is. But what if the contractor could also…
Read more20 December 2023
Our associate, Michael Comba and paralegal, Shyann Sheehy examine key case law relating to the NEC suite of contracts, building on the topics explored by our colleagues in this series previously. How much case law is there? We are often asked why there is relatively limited case law on the NEC suite. Compared to…
Read more28 August 2023
Termination notices can be fraught with risk. One misstep and terminating parties can find themselves at risk of repudiating a contract themselves, even where the other party is in breach of contract. This case considered what happens where a terminating party first issues an invalid termination notice followed by a valid termination notice. Did the…
Read more25 August 2023
Those exposed to adjudications understand that a dispute can only be adjudicated upon once. That, together with the limited ability to challenge decisions, can indeed be the source of frustration for some parties. But what if one dispute overlaps with another and is adjudicated on separately? To what extent would a later adjudicator be bound…
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