Buildings
Buildings – and the way they are developed, constructed, and operated – are becoming increasingly complex. Navigating this complexity demands specialist, multidisciplinary expertise.
HKA can help you to achieve positive outcomes amid intense commercial pressures – from market and supply chain uncertainties to tariff variations and contractual conflicts.
Global expertise in the built environment
For more than four decades, HKA experts have been anticipating, investigating and resolving the risks and challenges that arise in the planning, construction, and management of buildings worldwide.
Our expertise spans the disciplines – technical, project, digital, commercial, and environmental – that are critical in this sector.
We provide expert support to owners, contractors, suppliers, investors, lenders, insurers, state agencies and their counsel on most buildings-related matters, including:
- Construction claims & disputes
- Project planning & governance
- Building defects & failures
- Economic loss & damages
- Insurance claims
- Climate-related structural damage
- Environmental impact & contamination
Why HKA
The depth and breadth of our expertise in buildings is unmatched. HKA employs many of the world’s foremost technical experts in this field – from architecture to fire or structural engineering, lifts to seismology, and environmental and MEP (mechanical, electrical & plumbing) to BIM (building information modelling).
With more Lexology Index-commended construction expert witnesses in than any other firm, HKA is also the largest accredited corporate provider of expert services with The Academy of Experts.
Our people have supported clients involved in many of the world’s most iconic structures, including landmark buildings such as the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, Kuala Lumper’s Petronas Twin Towers, Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, and London’s Wembley stadium.
Our Expertise
HKA’s experience covers the full spectrum of building projects, including:
- Commercial offices
- Educational (schools to universities)
- Government buildings (from military and prisons to embassies and law courts)
- Healthcare facilities
- Hotels and resorts
- Public buildings (museums, libraries, parks)
- Real estate (residential, mixed use, urban renewal)
- Retail complexes
- Place of worship
- Sports and leisure facilities
How we can help you
Drawing on our global network, we deploy the expert, specialist, or seamless multidisciplinary team that best fits your needs to:
The heavy impact and underlying causes of conflict in buildings projects is revealed in our CRUX research programme. Each year, we help clients resolve billions of dollars’ worth of claims and disputes in this sector.
Our experts cut through the complexity – whether of delay, quantum, technical problems, insurance claims or commercial damages – providing clear, robust and impartial evidence to clients, counsel and courts.
We set up projects and organisations for success with insightful, industry-tested support at every level and stage, from project to enterprise and inception through construction.
The heavy impact and underlying causes of conflict in buildings projects is revealed in our CRUX research programme. Each year, we help clients resolve billions of dollars’ worth of claims and disputes in this sector.
Our experts cut through the complexity – whether of delay, quantum, technical problems, insurance claims or commercial damages – providing clear, robust and impartial evidence to clients, counsel and courts.
We set up projects and organisations for success with insightful, industry-tested support at every level and stage, from project to enterprise and inception through construction.
Incisive, independent, in-house
HKA can offer you a global team of specialists who provide incisive and impartial advice, opinion, and testimony on all matters related to buildings – planning, delivery, contractual, commercial, environmental, and technical and scientific.
