Areas of Practice
Building and Construction
As with any construction project, resulting disputes may also become complex and cumbersome. With the wealth of experience at hand, our lawyers focus on distilling and identifying core issues that would determine the trajectory of your matter. By working with you closely, our goal is to achieve a practical and efficient resolution for you.
Our notable engagements include:
- Representing a statutory body in a dispute in excess of $75 million concerning the construction of utilities.
- Advising and drafting an operations and maintenance contract for a floating mega-watt generator set for the then-largest shipyard in Labuan Sabah, Malaysia.
- Acting in a dispute concerning additions and alterations to a penthouse unit along Arthur Road involving, amongst others, various design defects and breaches of the Building and Construction Act and subsidiary legislation.
- Advising the MCST of a large northeast condominium with respect to construction defects and design defects in excess of $7 million.
- Advising a main contractor in a project for the re-cladding of a good class commercial building at Raffles Place. The project sum was in excess of $11 million.
- Acting for owners in a multi-million dispute concerning additions and alterations to a good class bungalow.
- Successfully representing the Singapore branch of a Hong Kong-listed construction company in a claim exceeding $600,000.00 arising from a breach of personal guarantee in connection with a construction project.
- Taking over conduct of a claim involving a temple along Paya Lebar Road. The quantum in dispute was in excess of $500,000.00.
- Acting for a sub-contractor in a dispute concerning a project for modernisation works of double-deck elevators in one of the tallest buildings in Singapore.
- Acting for a sub-contractor in a dispute concerning one of the first installations of pneumatic waste systems in Singapore in a private condominium situated along Thomson Road.
- Acting for a group of shophouse owners over the failure of a retaining wall behind their property against a statutory body in a dispute in excess of $300,000.00.
- Acting for a construction company to injunct a bond call by the largest developer in Singapore worth in excess of $16 million.
- Acting for a Singapore listed construction company in utility infrastructure project.
- Acting for a private developer over the demolition and construction of a detached home in its dispute with the main contractor and the architect.
- Acting for a construction company in defending allegations of building defects by a large condominium in the northeast of Singapore.
- Acting for a main contractor to defend against allegation of power surge leading to damage to sensitive equipment.
- Acting for insurers of a contractor who had allegedly caused damage to sensitive equipment in a wafer fabrication facility leading to alleged damage in excess of $2.2 million.
- Acting for a Chinese government linked construction company against a claim for indemnity by an international insurance company.
- Advising a main contractor with respect to delay and imposition of liquidated damages by a statutory board over the construction of a major building in the Marine Parade area.
