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Construction law builds upon general legal principles and methodologies and incorporates the regulatory framework (including security of payment, planning, environmental and building regulations); contract methodologies and selection (including traditional and alternative forms of contracting); subcontract issues; causes of action. and liability, arising in contract, negligence and on other grounds; insurance and performance security; dispute resolution and avoidance.

Construction law has evolved into a practice discipline in its own right, distinct from its traditional locations as a subpractice of project finance. real estate or corporate law. There are often strong links between construction law and energy law and oil and gas law .

In the United Kingdom. there has been an active Society of Construction Law[1] since 1983, and there is now a European Society of Construction Law, and Societies of Construction Law in Australia. Hong Kong. Singapore. and the UAE. The Joint Contracts Tribunal works on the most popular type of standard construction contracts.