Construction & Disputes Management, London UK
Construction Management Services
Overview
We provide end-to-end construction management across preconstruction, procurement, contract administration, and delivery. Our team integrates cost, schedule, quality, and HSE controls to keep your programme on track and compliant with JCT and NEC4.
Scope
• Feasibility & scope definition
• Procurement & contract strategy (JCT, NEC4)
• Cost planning & schedule baselining
• Contractor coordination & site supervision
• Quality, HSE & compliance assurance
• Change, risk & stakeholder management
• Testing, commissioning & handover
Highlights
• NEC4 & JCT administration
• Earned value & risk registers
• Programme recovery support
• Audits, reporting & governance
Preconstruction
Feasibility, scope, procurement strategy and baselines for cost & time.
Delivery
Site management, quality & HSE oversight, change & risk control.
Closeout
Commissioning, O&M documentation, handover, defects & warranty.
Notice: We administer contracts fairly and transparently in accordance with JCT and NEC4, maintaining clear registers for changes, risks, and decisions throughout delivery.
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The same discipline, examined under pressure.
Extension of time, prolongation and disruption claims — built from primary programme and cost records, and defensible under cross-examination.
Overview
Most disputes are lost before they reach a hearing — in a claim that was never properly substantiated, correspondence that was never issued on time, or a programme that cannot be reconstructed once challenged. Because our starting discipline is construction management, we read a project the way it was actually delivered, not the way a claim narrative would prefer it to have gone.
We act for developers, contractors and legal teams — preparing claims to be advanced, and testing claims received from the other side. Where an independent, appointed role is required, we support as delay or quantum expert; where a party needs an advocate for its position, we prepare and stand behind it.
Building a claim that holds up
A claim is only as strong as the record behind it. We build that record before we build the argument.
A — Entitlement Review
Contract, correspondence and site records tested against the relevant clauses before a position is committed to — so a claim is only advanced where it is actually supportable.
B — Programme & Delay Analysis
As-planned versus as-built reconstruction, critical path and time-impact analysis, using recognised SCL Protocol methodologies matched to the contract and the evidence available.
C — Quantum Preparation
Prolongation, disruption and loss and expense build-ups, cross-checked against cost records and valuations — figures that survive scrutiny, not just an initial read.
D — Notice & Procedural Compliance
Checking that notices, particulars and supporting detail were issued within the contractual time bars — the most common reason a valid claim fails on a technicality.
E — Narrative & Submission Drafting
A clear, evidence-led submission — cause, effect and entitlement set out so a contract administrator, adjudicator or tribunal can follow it without reconstruction of their own.
F — Response & Rebuttal
Where a claim is received rather than made, we test its programme logic and quantum build-up for the gaps a well-prepared response can exploit.
When a claim is contested
01 — Expert Witness
Independent delay and quantum expert reports, prepared to the standard required to withstand cross-examination in adjudication, arbitration or litigation.
02 — Adjudication Support
Referral and response preparation for statutory and contractual adjudication under UK and international procedures.
03 — Arbitration Support
Technical and quantum input through the arbitral process, drawing on London's position as a global centre for international construction arbitration.
04 — Mediation & Negotiated Settlement
Where a commercial resolution serves the client better than a prolonged process, we prepare the technical basis for a negotiated outcome.
Independence is set out before instruction. Where we are appointed as an expert, we act as expert only; where we advise a party, that role is clear from the outset. We do not hold both roles on the same matter.
Facing a delay, a claim, or a dispute?
The earlier we're involved, the more of the record we can still put right.
The same discipline, applied before capital is committed.
Feasibility and delivery risk reviewed with the rigour of someone who will later be accountable for the programme — because that is exactly who is reviewing it.
Overview
Most development advisory is written by people who have never had to deliver against their own numbers. Ours is written by the same team that runs programmes, controls cost, and defends claims when those numbers turn out to be wrong. That is the difference: a feasibility study is only useful if it holds up once the project is actually underway, not just at the point of investment decision.
We advise developers, investors and lenders before commitment — testing whether a project's programme, cost plan and risk profile are realistic, not just achievable on paper. Where a project proceeds, the same assessment becomes the baseline we hold it to.
Scope of service
Technical Due Diligence
Independent review of design, programme and cost information ahead of acquisition or investment — testing what has been assumed, not just what has been presented.
Feasibility Studies
Realistic assessment of programme, cost and delivery route, benchmarked against comparable projects and current market conditions rather than best-case assumptions.
Delivery Risk Review
Identification of the risks most likely to affect time and cost outcomes, with mitigation that can actually be implemented — not a generic risk register.
Procurement & Delivery Strategy
Advice on contract form, procurement route and delivery structure suited to the project's risk profile, ahead of appointing a design or construction team.
Cost Plan Verification
Independent testing of cost plans and budgets against current market rates and realistic contingency — before they are relied upon in an investment decision.
Bankable Feasibility Support
Feasibility documentation prepared to the standard required by lenders and financing partners, aligned with the due diligence they will expect to see.
Notice. We do not undertake development as a principal. Our development advisory is delivered independently of any developer, contractor or financing-party interest — including our own.
Evaluating a site, an acquisition, or a development opportunity?
Let's review it before the numbers are committed to.
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