Construction – Recent experience
Front-end
Our recent, front-end construction experience includes:
Roads
Acting for the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority on the $400 million Ballina
Bypass alliance.
Advising the Queensland Department of Main Roads on the A$1.88 billion duplication of the Gateway Bridge and upgrade of the Gateway Motorway.
Advising Main Roads WA on the Early Contractor Involvement contracting strategy in its project to upgrade sections of the Great Northern Highway in the Kimberley.
Acting for Interlink as concessionaire of the M5 toll road on all operational aspects including tolling, road widening and interoperability.
Advising Leighton Contractors, Baulderstone Hornibrook and Bilfinger Berger in their role as the construction contractor in the successful bid to build, operate, and maintain the A$2 billion North South Bypass Tunnel in Brisbane.
Advised on all aspects of the A$650 million Eastern Distributor extension, including advising the O&M contactor on current operational issues.
Acted for the successful consortium on the Cross City Tunnel BOOT/PPP project, the first road project developed under the NSW Government's PPP guidelines.
Advised Brisbane City Council on all aspects of the Brisbane Inner City Bypass project, including maximising the involvement of the private sector on a design, construct, maintain and operate basis, the tender documents and contracts and on issues arising out of the tender process.
Energy
Advising Stanwell Corporation on work being undertaken at its Stanwell Power
Station.
Advising Acciona on the development of its Waubra wind farm.
Advising Centennial Coal in relation to construction issues associated with the Anvil Hill project in New South Wales.
Advising Melbourne Water on the construction and tendering aspects of several of its key water infrastructure projects, including the Northern Sewer Project, the Tarago Water Treatment Project and the Melbourne Main Sewer Project.
Advising Shell on its project management and construction contracts for implementation in its retail fuel alliance with Coles Group Limited.
Rail
Advising the Victorian Government in relation to the Southern Cross Station
Redevelopment, the first transport project to be undertaken by the Victorian
Government under the Partnerships Victoria guidelines for the delivery of PPP
projects in Victoria.
Advising Transport Infrastructure Development Corporation on the A$1 billion Sydney South West Rail Link.
Acting for the Public Transport Authority on the New MetroRail Project, a A$1.6 billion infrastructure project.
Commercial developments
Acting for Queensland Investment Corporation on the development of their
Brisbane Central, Robina, WestPoint and Watergarden shopping centres.
Advising GPT on the Rouse Hill development.
Acting for GPT in connection with the 'One One One' CBD commercial office tower.
Acting for Investa on the proposed design and construction of 1 Richard Johnson Square, Sydney.
Back-end
Our recent, back-end construction experience includes:
Petroleum
Acting on behalf of a petroleum company, which is in a dispute with a
contractor over the construction of a gas plant and off-shore flow lines.
Energy
Acting for generator in multiple security of payment adjudication
and arbitration over power station upgrade.
Engineering
Defended a
design engineering company in a A$30 million law suit arising from the
duplication of a bridge, and represented a contractor in an arbitration
concerning work to a Hong Kong office building.
Transport
Acting for a
state government department in dispute with contractors over the development of
new transport infrastructure.
Defence
Acting for a contractor in
several defence contract disputes.
Civil
Acting on behalf of a
contractor in relation to earthworks and excavation litigation being conducted
in the Norfolk Island Supreme Court.
