Join us for a special episode of Construction Cast when we'll be joined by doyens of construction adjudication; Matt Molloy and Jonathan Cope.

Renowned for their regular column over many years in Practical Law and their work in training adjudicators, the two will join us for a look at their careers, their experience and of course their latest work - the book.

The book (Adjudicating Construction & Engineering Disputes) provides a cradle to grave guide to the process of construction industry adjudication from the perspective of the adjudicator. It covers the whole process of adjudication, from the initial enquiry through case management, the conduct of the proceedings, the production of the Decision and post-Decision matters. The purpose is to provide a resource for aspiring and practising adjudicators, both in the UK and internationally.

With Matt and Jonathan, we'll not only be discussing the book, we'll be taking a wider look at dispute resolution, their careers and hopes for the future. Join us in a few weeks to hear more from the extremely dynamic duo.

ConstructionCast returns for the Autumn season, with three experts looking at the importance of biodiversity net gain (BNG).

Stuart is joined by Amelia Ku-Neale of Desimone Consulting Engineers, Rhys Williams of Civic Engineers and Marta Holton of Ingleton Wood. BNG is a very broad concept and quite difficult to quantify. The law changed a few months ago to make it compulsory on many developments.

We will be looking a few aspects of this topic including:

- What are the new rules and how did they come about?
- Onsite gain / offsite gains / offsetting
- How does it affect you in your field of work?
- Are the rules different across the country?
- What methods are available?
- Do you have to comply and what if you can't comply?
- Is there greenwashing to be found?
- Existing / conflicting rules


We hope you find this episode insightful, see you next time for the next ConstructionCast episode.
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Delay Analysis - ConstructionCast S1 Ep11

In this episode of ConstructionCast, Stuart was joined by Tom Francis (Decipher), Michelle Metz (HKA) and David Stone (FieldStone DA).

Stuart joins Elvin Box, Anjali Pindoria, with David Barnes and Daisie Rees-Evans of the CIOB looking at mental health in the built environment. 91% of people in our industry will feel overwhelmed and one in four will consider suicide. What can be done to reverse these worrying statistics?

This episode looks at defects in buildings, with a focus on RAAC. The panel discussed how to define a project going wrong, what happens on the legal and insurance side of a broken building and what you can do to avoid having a broken building.

The speakers were:
• Jerry Tate, Tate + co - https://tateandco.com/about/#teamModal48
• Ruth Kavanagh, Archor - https://archor.co.uk/ruthkavanagh/
• Richard O’Brien, Ross Gower - https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-o-brien-73936316/?originalSubdomain=uk
• Ralph Gifford, Ward Williams Associates - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ralph-gifford-92226168/?originalSubdomain=uk

Variations in Construction Contracts - ConstructionCast S2 Ep5

In this episode, we discuss changes and variations in construction projects, often one of the largest sources of disputes in construction. We are joined by three specialists from the Middle East and London: Suzannah Fairbairn (Dentons), Andy Hewitt director (Hewitt Decipher Partnership) and Michele De Gregorio (Crown Office Chambers).

Annie Clift was joined by Mark Wheeler (Diales) and David Rintoul (Hill Dickinson) to discuss the role of technical expert witnesses in resolving construction disputes.

In this episode of ConstructionCast the panel looked at expert shopping.
The practice of expert shopping has been a huge topic of discussion in the past few years.
But what is it and how can you be avoiding it?
Annie was joined by Katherine Butler a solicitor from Fenwick Elliott: https://www.fenwickelliott.com/team/butler and Simon Murray and expert from William J Marshall: https://www.williamjmarshall.co.uk/our-people/simon-murray/ .