Our team provides specialist construction expertise in the delivery of major projects and capital works.
We cover the life cycle of public and private sector projects, from initial structuring and inception through to decommissioning and remediation, including securing tenure, government funding and private sector financing, tender and procurement, design and construction, operation and maintenance, transportation, haulage and offtake arrangements.
Disputes lawyers within our team include experts in alternative dispute resolution, adjudication, international and domestic arbitration and construction litigation.
We provide our clients with support across all aspects of a major project including:
- Project planning – structuring and development, including tendering and risk management, foreign investment and taxation and public private partnerships
- Land & planning – land access and managing site conditions, tenure and property issues, planning and regulatory approvals
- Governance & compliance – delivery of Commonwealth and State funded projects, including advice on licensing, competition, native title and cultural heritage
- Financing – debt or equity financing and restructuring, including asset refinancing and Personal Properties Security Act implications
- Contracting – preparation, negotiation and administration of project, tender and contract documents including consultancy agreements, construction and engineering contracts (D&C/EPC/EPCM/ECI/MC and alliancing) and procurement contracts
- Maintenance – negotiation of long-term offtake agreements, O&M agreements and services agreements, including advice on regulation of third party access to infrastructure facilities
- Dispute resolution – regulatory investigations and government inquiries
- End of life – decommissioning, refurbishment and repurposing of project sites and assets.
Work highlights - front-end construction
Santos
Papuan Oil Search Limited, a subsidiary of Santos, in relation to its KPS Papua New Guinea Project including development of a floating storage offtake vessel and associated infrastructure to replace the existing offloading terminal.
Sunwater
Procurement of the Burdekin Falls Dam Raising Project, which involves a two-metre raise to increase the storage capacity (the largest water storage asset in Queensland). The project will be delivered as an alliance.
Australian Turf Club
Unsolicited proposal submitted to the NSW Government relating to the development of the Rosehill Gardens Racecourse and associated facilities.
Arafura Resources
Development of the Nolans Rare Earth Project, encompassing a mine, process plant (comprising beneficiation, extraction and separation plants) and related infrastructure to be constructed and located 135 km north of Alice Springs.
Albemarle
Expansion of their Kemerton Lithium Hydroxide processing plant facility, making it the largest of its kind in Australia.
Accord Property
Documentation and ongoing advice for administration of the contracts with Nuveen Global on a 500 bed student accommodation facility in Melbourne.
Work highlights - back-end construction
Great River City Light Rail
O&M contractor to the Parramatta Light Rail Project, including providing strategic advice on project delivery issues and acting on several significant disputes against other project participants.
Townsville Private Hospital
Complex and significant dispute concerning the construction of the hospital.
Mirait Technologies Australia
Dispute arising on the MacIntyre Wind Farm, which is part of the largest wind energy precinct in Australia.
Golder Associates
Gateway Upgrade Project litigation on claims that portions of the motorway were defective due to design and construction, requiring major rectification works.
Hamersley Iron
Dispute with a joint venture between Acciona and Clough, in relation to a contract for the construction of a rail formation in the Pilbara.
WSP Australia
Claims by Transurban for breach of contract, negligence and misleading or deceptive conduct regarding the Lane Cove Tunnel.
