Practice Overview
The UAE’s construction and infrastructure sector continues to operate at a scale and ambition that places it among the most active development environments globally. Giga-projects in Abu Dhabi, flagship mixed-use developments redefining Dubai’s urban landscape, critical infrastructure programmes across the Northern Emirates, and the UAE’s expanding regional development footprint generate a continuous pipeline of construction legal work of genuine complexity and consequence. The legal framework governing this sector spans FIDIC contract administration under the Red, Yellow, Silver, and Gold Books, UAE Civil Code construction liability provisions including decennial liability under Articles 880 to 883, complex multi-tier subcontracting chains, performance security and bond instruments, and project financing structures that link construction milestones to drawdown conditions.
JUR’s Construction and Engineering practice advises across the complete project lifecycle, from contract structuring, procurement strategy, and risk allocation at the outset through contract administration, claims management, and adjudication during execution, to arbitration, court litigation, and enforcement when projects encounter delay, defect, disruption, or termination. We act for project owners, developers, government and semi-government authorities, EPC and main contractors, specialist subcontractors, construction lenders, and professional indemnity and project insurers.
