I have been advising on construction projects and disputes since 1987. I advise on:

• structuring contracts, including innovative and collaborative models
• assessing and managing risk
• legal issues in the procurement and execution stages
• preventing, resolving, and winning disputes.

I advise on ad hoc issues as they arise, and also as project counsel for projects requiring more ongoing strategic legal advice.

I drafted the suite of public works contracts and associated documents, used for almost all public construction in Ireland since 2007. I also drafted the arbitration rules for public works disputes.

I have advised on most of the large public infrastructure projects constructed in the last 20 years, including —

• New children’s hospital, Dublin

• Dunkettle interchange, Cork, and most of the inter-urban national road and motorway network

• MetroLink (and previously Metro North) and other urban rail projects including DART Underground, Metro West, several Luas extensions

• Ringsend wastewater treatment pant (one of the largest in Europe), and several other water and wastewater plants, networks, and programmes

• Ringaskiddy port redevelopment, Cork

• M17 M18 Gort-Tuam, and several other PPP projects, including M8 Rathcormac-Fermoy, Limerick Tunnel, Criminal Courts of Justice

• Gas pipeline and infrastructure projects

• National domestic water metering programme

• industrial projects in the life sciences sector

• landmark city centre commercial developments

• renewable energy projects

• university buildings