Tilbury Douglas JV loses fight over £22m adjudication ruling

Northumbrian Water has won its fight to enforce an adjudicator’s ruling that a joint venture between Tilbury Douglas and Doosan Enpure pay it £22.4m over delays on a water treatment works job.
The JV had tried to argue the dispute should go to arbitration.
Disputes arose over cost overruns, delays to works and quality issues on the design and build job to upgrade the Horsley water treatment works in Northumberland.
Northumbrian Water terminated the £37m contract, which was awar