SKILL ROADMAP 63 · SPECIALISED LEGAL FIELDS

Infrastructure and Construction Law

Project structures → Contracts → Procurement → Land → Claims → Disputes

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1 What this path is

Infrastructure lawyers advise on roads, ports, airports, power plants and other large projects, from contracts to disputes.

The work involves long contracts, government procurement and arbitration.

Learn project structures.
Learn: EPC, PPP and hybrid annuity models.
Practise: by comparing risk allocation in each.
Learn construction contracts.
Learn: standard forms such as FIDIC and their key clauses.
Practise: by reviewing delay and variation clauses.
Learn public procurement.
Learn: how governments tender and award contracts.
Practise: by reviewing a tender document.
Learn land acquisition.
Learn: the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act 2013.
Practise: by mapping the acquisition process.
Learn claims.
Learn: delay, disruption and variation claims.
Practise: by drafting a delay claim.
Learn disputes.
Learn: construction arbitration and the special provisions for infrastructure projects in the Specific Relief Act.
Practise: by writing a case comment on a construction arbitration ruling.

You handle infrastructure transactions and disputes independently.

These checklists are for honest self assessment. They are not an official certification.

Infrastructure practices, construction arbitration teams and project companies.

Reviews and claims.