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Construction

Sharpe Pritchard’s expert team of construction lawyers works with a broad range of clients, including central government, local authorities, higher education institutions, hospital trusts, registered providers, developers, project sponsors, consultants, and charitable institutions. Our construction team has substantial strength and depth, and deals with a wide range of construction and infrastructure projects, from large-scale national projects to major waste-to-energy sites and town centre regenerations.

Our projects include:

  • School expansion programmes
  • High-profile and politically sensitive new builds and large-scale refurbishments
  • Major infrastructure and engineering projects (including many of national significance)
  • Higher educational facilities
  • Commercial premises
  • Mixed-use schemes
  • Large-scale housing schemes
  • Student and affordable accommodation
  • Historic restorations

Our team also supports clients in resolving construction disputes, whether through negotiation, mediation, or, where necessary, formal dispute resolution procedures. The team advises on all aspects of construction disputes, including extension of time and loss and expense claims, professional negligence claims, and general damages claims.

We are highly experienced in all forms of dispute resolution including mediation, arbitration, litigation, expert determination, and adjudication. We have a dedicated adjudication unit (SP Adjudication) which deals exclusively with construction disputes, and also a standalone mediation team (SP Mediation).

We regularly lecture and run training workshops on JCT and NEC contracts, procurement in the construction industry, and dispute resolution.

The team works closely with clients to resolve disputes during the operation of PFI/PPP contracts, and has considerable experience of successfully operating the specialist dispute resolution procedures found in such Project Agreements.

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Inside Adjudication

Our podcast series, Inside Adjudication, focusses on construction adjudication and adjudication related case law. Listen to the series now.

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Work highlights

  • Advising Central Government departments on amajor flagship design and build construction project in central London.
  • Advising Southend-on-Sea Borough Council onBetter Queensway the Council’s most significant and largest ever regeneration project.
  • Informing authorities across the country on large-scale development and construction joint ventures, including town centre regenerations, commercial developments and major housing projects.
  • Advising London councils on extensive school expansion projects.
  • Advising a London Council on a complex construction dispute, crystallising in a “Christmas adjudication”.
  • Advising Brentwood Borough Council on an Asset Development Joint Venture Procurement, with a competitive dialogue procurement for projects with gross development value of > £1 billion.
  • Advising major contractors and PLCs on construction disputes in respect of extension of time claims, loss and expense claims and ‘smash and grab’ adjudications.
  • Advising a higher education institution on a major new build.
Juli Lau, Helen Arthur and Shyann Sheehy look into the new Commercial Payments Bill and what it means for both public authorities and larger contractors. As referred to in our article on the implications of the King’s Speech 2026 for the construction sector, the government has announced new legislation which intends to improve commercial payment... Read more
Aanya Gujral and David Owens set out five top tips on how best employers can protect their interests when it comes to construction defects Construction defects are an almost inevitable feature of construction projects. The real issue is rarely whether defects arise at all, but how they are identified, managed and, where necessary, pursued. Recent... Read more
In this article, Rachel Murray-Smith, Conrad Turnock and Helen Arthur explain the significance of Crest Nicholson v Ardmore Ardmore [2026] EWHC 789 (TCC); [2026] EWHC 1069 (TCC), one of the first major decisions to consider the scope of building liability orders under the Building Safety Act 2022 and its impact on available routes to recovery.... Read more

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