Provides a summary of recent developments in the construction, engineering and energy.

Focuses on the ever-increasing importance of the impact of artificial intelligence and the digital big bang. It looks at the continued march forward of BIM and the contractual safeguards that need to be put in place to work with BIM. It reviews the impact of the Arnold v Britton and Marks & Spencer v BNP Paribas cases and look at the outcome of the Supreme Court?s review about liquidated damages. It reflects on the question of whether or not a prohibition on oral variations can ever be overridden and it reminds you of just how easy it is to sign up to personal guarantees, but how hard it is to try and extricate yourself from having done so. To complement their office in Dubai, the Review has an international flavour and it comments on the Dubai courts which have been considering whether or not an Engineer?s Decision under the FIDIC form is a contractual precondition to the right to bring an arbitration claim. It also provides an update on adjudication, takes a look at the impartiality of adjudicators and arbitrators, considers guarantees and looks at the extent to which the UK courts embrace the principle of good faith.