Engineer Law

Resolving any and all issues under engineer law is another task that has long formed part of TSP’s core expertise. The level of competence in engineer law we are able to offer our clients is one that few of our competitors can match.

Also when it comes to engineer law, our law firm fulfills all the requirements.

As regards the contract award for technical planning services in the traditional categories and their implementation – such as site planning, civil engineering, traffic infrastructure planning, building services engineering, and structural design – our legal practitioners can rely on excellent compendia of templates. These were conceived, and are continually updated, by a committee of which TSP attorney Dr. Rolf Theissen is a member. TSP will be happy to provide you with assistance on how to use them.

Any client awarding a contract for engineering services is well advised to have in place a system for managing fees and supplemental services / change orders. This particularly holds true for major projects involving the planning of infrastructure. Putting legal safeguards in place for this purpose forms part of TSP’s core expertise. We have published a set of tables on partial services, the “TSP Teilleistungstabellen,” that allow an objective evaluation of the essential services rendered by planners.

TSP offers qualified consultancy services on all matters of engineer law, particularly in the following fields:

• “Traditional” contract award to individual technical planners – particularly for technical equipment & fixtures – as well as to general planners;
• Review and assessment of the fees charged, whether or not they are governed by the Honorarordnung für Architekte und Ingenieure (HOAI, Official Scale of Fees for Services by Architects and Engineers);
• Issues of planner’s liability;
• Conceptualization of bidder consortia.