Portfolio

Crowters have been instructed on a wide range of construction disputes. Below are just a few examples of our recent projects.

Airports

Chek Lap Kok International Airport, Hong Kong - experts on cargo centre, southern runway, structural steel frame, terminal security and main terminal disputes

Beirut International Airport , Lebanon - expert on marine, quarrying, civil engineering and building disputes, including runway and terminal building

New Athens Airport, Greece - Chairman of Conciliation Panel (Dispute Review Board)

Manchester Airport Runway 2, UK - permanent conciliator

Bridges

Ting Kau Bridge, Hong Kong - polymer engineering dispute on cable stay bridge

Thelwall Viaduct, M6 motorway, UK - experts on bridge strengthening and repair

Kap Shui Mun Bridge, Hong Kong - experts on cable stay bridge for road and rail traffic to new airport

Highways

Trunk road Suffolk, UK - experts for contractor on new bypass

Tuen Mun Highway , Hong Kong - experts in negligence action relating to widening of existing highway including major rock excavation and marine work

Lewisham town centre, London, UK - experts for London Borough in connection with claims arising out of road remodelling and traffic planning scheme

Hospitals

Onassis Cardiac Surgery Centre, Athens, Greece - new hospital including complex earthquake resisting structure - associated shipping dispute over delay in delivering key imported materials

St Mary’s Hospital, Newport, Isle of Wight, UK - expert for architect in dispute over cladding design

Nottingham General Hospital , UK - extension to existing building

Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, experts for mechanical and electrical specialists on new hospital

Hotels

Malmaison Hotel, Manchester, UK - expert in arbitration - connected court case Henry Boot Construction (UK) Ltd v Malmaison Hotel (Manchester) Ltd Court of Appeal (2000)

Claridges Hotel, London, UK - refurbishment of luxury hotel

Housing

Portland House, Gibraltar - mixed residential and commercial development

Grand Palisades, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong - new housing and leisure complex

Marine Engineering

Offshore pipeline and SPM, Lithuania - experts for US engineering contractor in international arbitration - crude oil pipeline and off-shore loading and off-loading buoy in extreme Baltic winter weather conditions

Beirut Airport - breakwater - marine protection to new runway including consequences of design failure

Mining and Quarrying

Various open cast mining schemes in Wales, Scotland and England - experts for contractors and mine owners

Beirut Airport quarry - exploitation of new quarry as a result of redesign of marine works, including sea transport of boulders

Offices

Little Britain development, Aldersgate Street, London, UK - experts on deep piling and diaphragm walling contract to new offices in City of London

Kowloon Station office development - Hong Kong - experts in dispute relating to the consequences of alleged short piles in foundations

Office development Manchester city centre - experts for developers in disputes with management package contractors

Office development Cambridge - experts for contractor - alleged defects in building; associated court case: Alfred McAlpine Construction Limited v Panatown Limited - House of Lords (2000)

Concord Business Park, Manchester Airport - new office block for telephone service provider

Lewisham Data Centre, London - experts for contractor in adjudication and then litigation with property arm of large US bank - associated court case: CIB Properties v Birse Construction [2004] EWHC 2365 (TCC)

Petrochemical

Butinge Oil Terminal, Mazeikiai Refinery, onshore and offshore pipelines, Lithuania - 90km crude oil pipeline from existing oil refinery to new oil terminal near Baltic coast; off-shore pipeline to loading and discharging buoy - experts for US contractor in international arbitration

Aberdeen to Liverpool ethylene pipeline, UK - experts for pipeline contractor for long pipeline crossing Scotland and north-west England over difficult terrain

Power and Nuclear Stations

Black Point CCGT Power Plant, Hong Kong - $3bn 2,500MW combined cycle natural gas-fired power station - JV between US energy group ExxonMobil and China Light & Power

Sellafield , Cumbria, UK - experts on Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (THORP) - reprocesses spent nuclear fuel rods from power stations in Britain and Japan

Process Engineering and Manufacturing

Soft drinks concentrate plant, Ireland - experts for world-leader in dispute arising from construction of new plant

NEC semi-conductor factory Livingston, Scotland, UK

Wedgwood China Potteries, Stoke on Trent, UK - project manager for design and construct contract - including dealing with consequences of uncharted old mineworkings

Steel mill, Egypt - experts in international arbitration for Eastern European designer and supplier of structural steel for new steel manufacturing plant in the Suez Canal basin

Public Buildings

Avon and Somerset Police Headquarters, UK - experts for Police Authority in dispute with contractors over construction of new force headquarters

Magistrates Court, Southampton, UK - roofing dispute on new court building

Government offices, London, UK - experts on refurbishment contract

Public Departments

Foot & Mouth outbreak, UK nationwide - experts for contractors in dispute with Government Department over amount to be paid for services - related case - JDM Accord Limited v The Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, TCC 16 January 2004

Shopping Centres

Arndale Shopping Centre, Manchester, UK - advice to construction managers

Shopping Centre, St Helens, Merseyside, UK - dispute over manufacturing or design deficiencies in ceramic tile flooring

The Galleries Shopping Centre, Bristol, UK - experts for major insurance company funder in multi-party litigation - associated court case: Schal International Ltd v Norwich Union Life Assurance Society [1992] 28 Con LR 129

Park Plaza Shopping Centre, Hatfield, UK

Sports and Leisure Facilities

The Gate, Newcastle, UK - experts for piling contractors in dispute with main contractor

Swimming Pool, Cambridge, UK - experts instructed by insurers on design negligence case

Transport

Railway station, Liverpool, UK - dispute over manufacture and supply of specialist steel plate structures for new railway station

New Street Station, Birmingham, UK - new footbridge on multi-platform railway interchange

East Rail Extensions, Hong Kong - expert for contractors in arbitration with specialist concrete superstructure sub-contractors on new elevated railway - Ma On Shan Rail

Universities and Colleges

Sheffield University , UK - experts on curtain walling dispute

Cambridge University Law Library, UK - advisers to architect

Cable and Wireless Teaching College, Coventry, UK - dispute with specialist concrete contractors

Water Engineering

Portrack to Bran Sands pipeline, Northumbria, UK

Water pumping facility, Nottinghamshire, UK, including dispute over controlling computer hardware and software