Plant Engineering and Construction
Whether a marzipan factory, cooling tower, oil rig or refinery, each project is unique. So is the legal position. This calls for widely diversified expertise.
Plant construction involves a whole web of individual contracts with different contents and time scales. Taylor Wessing offers the full range of services. Drafting the contract is just the start of our focussed efforts to support your negotiations and manage the contracts. From the battle to obtain the building permit to the "just in time delivery" order for the very last component.
Every construction project requires contracts which fully secure the legal position yet remain flexible enough to meet the individual, practical requirements of a construction project, which may change over the course of the building work. Taylor Wessing offers a wide range of flexible contracts.
Numerous legal problems will occur during the construction stage. The German standard building contract terms (VOB - Verdingungsordnung für Bauleistungen) as well as the German Civil Code contain numerous formal aspects and requirements and, accordingly, many pitfalls. Therefore, legal support for a construction project will always have to include control functions.
During the period between acceptance and the date at which claims become time-barred there are many more formal legal requirements to meet and obstacles to overcome before warranty claims or collaterals can be enforced, which could destroy the profitability of the project.
You may rest assured that our professionals are very well versed in technical matters.