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
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Highest project value
Our experience in Buildings
HKA is engaged on complex building projects across the public and private sectors, advising on high‑value developments where commercial, contractual, and technical risk intersect.
Our experience includes:
- Commercial offices and large‑scale workplace developments
- Education projects, from schools to universities and research campuses
- Government and civic buildings, including military facilities, prisons, embassies, and courts
- Healthcare facilities, including hospitals and specialist care centres
- Hotels, resorts, and major mixed‑use hospitality developments
- Cultural and public assets such as museums, libraries, and civic spaces
- Residential, mixed‑use, and urban regeneration projects
- Retail and leisure destinations
- Sports, leisure, and community facilities
- Places of worship and heritage buildings
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.
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.
