Big projects mean big risks.

Ziegler Gardner Bell devotes the vast majority of our practice to construction law, representing architects, engineers, code inspectors, licensed surveyors, landscape architects, design-builders, general contractors, subcontractors, construction fund managers, and specialty contractors and consultants in litigation and business deals involving major construction projects worth billions of dollars for over 25 years.  Ziegler Gardner Bell’s lawyers have developed a reputation of respect and admiration for serving as go-to outside counsel for ENR Top 100, mid-sized, and small design and construction firms and their liability insurance carriers as lead counsel in lawsuits, arbitrations, mediations, claims-avoidance/loss prevention activity, project monitoring, contract negotiations, and mergers and acquisitions.  Ziegler Gardner Bell also serves as outside general counsel for several design and construction firms and monitoring counsel for liability insurance carriers.  With over two decades of experience helping design professionals and construction contractors, we have developed a significant depth of knowledge in handling major projects throughout all of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and nationwide involving: 

• Transportation infrastructure (highways, bridges, slopes) 
• Heavy civil, maritime, and waterway infrastructure (ports, dams, wharves, levees, reservoirs, storm/wastewater facilities, ship channels, harbors, mines) 
• Commercial buildings (high rise and mid-rise office and retail, hotels, parking garages, mixed-use, indoor and outdoor shopping centers, and malls) 
• Institutional and government structures (university educational and dormitory, K-12 schools, courthouses, municipal buildings, military base structures/housing, churches)
• Health care (hospitals, surgery centers, laboratories, long-term care and assisted living facilities)
• Multi-family (wood and steel-framed, low, mid, and high-rise apartments, condominiums, and senior living communities)
• Residential development (multi-single-family homes, custom and track housing)
• Entertainment (theatres, civic centers, opera houses)
• Energy (oil & gas, petrochemical, LNG and ECP)
• Sports venues (professional, collegiate, and high school football and baseball stadiums/practice facilities and multi-sport arenas)