The impact of climate change regulation, legislation and policy
now affects many aspects of business life. Increasing media
coverage and stakeholder, donor and consumer awareness and pressure
will only serve to push sustainability to the top of the commercial
agenda.
As well as presenting the business community with a series of
challenges, the climate change challenge also opens the door to
many new opportunities for forward thinking companies.
The Climate Change team at Blake Lapthorn has a true breadth of
service offering and impressive credentials built over years of
experience in providing advice on a wide range climate change
related issues.
Buildings are responsible for almost half of the country’s
carbon emissions, half of its water consumption, about one third of
landfill waste and one quarter of all raw materials used in the
economy. Our Construction group is fully alive to the importance of
sustainable construction. We act for a number of clients for whom
the issues of sustainability and climate change feature highly on
their business agenda.
Recent examples include:
- acting for several local authorities on a number of flagship
regeneration schemes in which sustainability in the method of
construction was a key objective
- advising one of the country's leading suppliers of renewable
timber (for whom sustainability and awareness of the issue is a
benchmark by which its suppliers are measured) in relation to its
standard terms of supply and sub-contracting on a wide range of
projects
- advising a leading energy management company in relation to
terms upon which they were undertaking work on a major
refurbishment of a world-class hotel in central London
Members of the group are also active within the sector promoting
awareness of the environmental impact of the construction process,
such as by speaking at industry meetings and by holding events and
seminars specifically focusing on the subject.
The group provides a complete legal service to those in the
construction, engineering and technology industries and their
customers, including cover advice, assistance and action on all of
the following:
- building and engineering contracts
- consultants’ appointments and warranties
- project structuring financing and PFI
- European regulation and public procurement
- litigation
- arbitration
- alternative dispute resolution
- adjudication
- construction insolvency
- construction employment
- intellectual property.
