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Practice Areas:
Focus on Infrastructure
BR&H provides targeted legal expertise to infrastructure-development projects during program development, project delivery, and dispute resolution. We have a team of experienced attorneys—many of whom have significant engineering, architecture, and construction experience—who are committed to working hard and providing innovative and effective representation to their clients. We have specific, in-depth experience on a wide variety of civil construction projects including highways, bridges, surface roads, power plants, water-treatment plants, intermodal ports, and buildings of all sorts.
Public-Private Partnerships
Major infrastructure projects have suffered in recent years from a dramatic decline in public funding. As a result, our nation’s roadways, bridges, and other essential infrastructure have not kept pace with the needs of our population. Public-private partnerships (PPPs) play an increasingly important role in filling the resulting funding gap. International investment banks as well as other major institutional lenders are parlaying billions of private dollars to develop and maintain infrastructure projects throughout the United States in “partnership” with the public.
Major projects financed, built, and operated in their entirety by private entities under long term leases include the SR 125 Toll Road in San Diego County, California, developed by Bell, Rosenberg & Hughes’ client, South Bay Expressway, a subsidiary of Macquarie Infrastructures Group.
We have a long history of interest and involvement in PPPs, including efforts to assist a private owner develop a light-rail connector between the BART system and a major Bay Area airport. Our attorneys sit on several committees investigating the suitability of specific infrastructure projects for private participation. We regularly lecture on the intricacies of dispute resolution provisions for PPP projects.
Infrastructure Expertise
- Extensive experience handling some of the most complex construction-claims cases in California and nationwide
- Coordinating development efforts with federal, state, and local agencies, including Caltrans.
- Familiarity with federal, state, and local statutory rules and regulations, including the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), the California Public Contract Code, Caltrans rules and regulations, and California licensing requirements.
- A thorough understanding of all project delivery systems, including design-build, fast-track, and design-bid-build systems.
- Contract drafting and administration.
- Dispute resolution and avoidance, including bid protests, differing–site-condition claims, and delay and impact claims.
- Extensive expertise in land acquisition and land use issues.
Representative Infrastructure Matters
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BR&H presently represents South Bay Expressway, L.P. in connection with resolving claims and schedule issues on the State Route 125 South Project, a $700–$800 million design-build, public-private partnership project located in San Diego County.
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| BR&H represented the City of Richmond in connection claims and schedule issues arising from the $250 million Caltrans-supervised Richmond Parkway Project. The project consisted of a 7.5 mile freeway connector between the Richmond/San Rafael Bridge and Interstate 580. The project involved six major phases, numerous bridges, railroad and utility relocations, and environmental remediation efforts. |
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| BR&H has represented the Port of Oakland in connection with a wide variety of claims on numerous infrastructure projects, including most recently the resolution of claims arising out of the construction of a joint intermodal terminal, new major roads, bridges, and highway connectors, rail improvements, landfill and capping projects, a Johnny Miller golf course, and replacement airport runways. |
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| BR&H has represented the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority on claims issues in connection with light-rail projects, major highway improvements, and contract disputes with local public utilities regarding the relocation of major water, gas, and electric services. |
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| BR&H has represented both owners and contractors in avoiding and resolving claims and schedule issues on major power-generating facilities including gas-fired, hydroelectric, and cogeneration plants. The firm also has substantial experience with water-treatment and pipeline-construction issues on over $1 billion worth of projects involving such facilities. |
Clients
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a list of some of our valued clients.
Forensic Multimedia Support
We offer in-house, state-of-the-art litigation
support at very competitive rates. We can provide everything from
simple charts and document blow-ups to full-blown 3-D animation.
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here to read more about our Forensic Multimedia department.
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