Industry: Construction & engineering

A panel at GAR Live Construction Disputes discussed the growing trend of expert reports signed by multiple expert witnesses – and whether they give vital experience to junior experts but also potentially lead to an abuse of process.

17 April 2025

A construction company has been awarded more than US$300 million in an ICDR dispute with a Colombian government agency over a highway project that was halted because of its proximity to freshwater springs.

15 April 2025

UPDATED: A Chinese state-owned engineering company has disputed the accuracy of reports that it is preparing an ICC claim against Serbia over cost overruns on a power plant project.

28 February 2025

A Spanish construction consortium says that Mexico’s state-owned electric utility has paid a US$22 million LCIA award over cost overruns at a power plant project – as the utility faces a bid to enforce another award. 

14 February 2025

The Singapore Court of Appeal has refused to set aside a SIAC award ordering India’s Reliance Infrastructure to pay US$146 million to a Chinese energy group, rejecting allegations that the underlying guarantee was forged.

19 December 2024

Panama has agreed to satisfy a US$26.7 million ICSID award obtained by a US company over a cancelled mining concession, while settlement negotiations continue with another investor in a dispute over a construction project.

05 December 2024

A construction contractor has failed to annul an ICSID award that dismissed the bulk of its US$150 million claim against Peru over a delayed project to improve a stretch of the Pan-American highway.

27 November 2024

A Thai construction company has failed to persuade a SIAC tribunal to provisionally restrain a group of Chinese state-owned entities from taking control of a billion-dollar highway project in Bangladesh.

23 October 2024

The main shareholders of Austrian engineering group Strabag have filed for arbitration in Amsterdam against a sanctioned minority investor previously linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. 

10 October 2024

A Thai construction company has filed for SIAC arbitration against Chinese state-controlled entities as they battle for control of a billion-dollar highway project in Bangladesh. 

07 October 2024