Tuesday, 10 March 2026
Legal Implications of Innovation in Construction
The Construction Industry has always been dynamic, adopting new technologies and building methodologies to minimise cost and maximise productivity. Digital tools, such as Building Information Modelling, have gained widespread acceptance. Pre-fabrication and modular building are being promoted as partial solutions to the housing crisis
- How well do existing forms of contract deal with the risk issues arising from these innovations?
- What consequent amendments should you be considering in your contracts?
Presented by Alex Hartmann, Partner, Hall & Wilcox and Devina Maurice, Lawyer, Hall & Wilcox
Chair
Stephen Ipp, Barrister, Greenway Chambers
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is based on NSW legislation
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Presenters
Stephen Ipp, Barrister, Greenway Chambers
Stephen Ipp is a barrister specialising in arbitration, building and construction, commercial, corporations and insolvency law. He acts in a wide range of disputes involving shareholders, commercial fraud, real property transactions, complex recoveries for financiers and liquidators, engineering and infrastructure disputes, general building and strata defect claims. Stephen advises on trial strategy at all stages of the litigation process and works closely with instructing solicitors. He has more than 25 years of experience working with experts across a wide range of professional disciplines. Stephen is recognised in The Best Lawyers in Australia 2021 to 2024 for his expertise in Insolvency and Reorganization Law, for Insurance Law in 2023 and 2024 for Banking and Finance in 2024. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) (FCIArb).
Alex Hartmann, Partner, Hall & Wilcox
Alex Hartmann is a Partner at Baker McKenzie. With over 30 years' experience, Alex Hartmann advises clients in the construction and engineering sectors across universities, state-owned corporations, institutional property owners, developers, utilities, hotel and hospital operators, contractors, major equipment suppliers, financiers and consultants. As a projects and construction lawyer, Alex has experience in all facets of project delivery from contract structuring, drafting and negotiation through to advice on contract administration and dispute resolution (including adjudication, litigation, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution).
Devina Maurice, Lawyer, Hall & Wilcox
Devina Maurice is a lawyer with Hall & Wilcox who works with Alex in the drafting, administration and resolution of disputes arising from construction contracts.
