Lucilla Waugh

Lucilla advises on a vast array of education projects, ranging from the building and refurbishment of schools and academies and further education colleges to university accommodation.

Examples of these projects include working with Newcastle University on three iconic buildings at Newcastle Helix; working for Aura Newcastle and its project companies on the building of new PFI schools, procured under the Building Schools for the Future initiative; and the redevelopment of East Durham College’s Houghall campus in Durham.

Lucilla advises on a range of housing projects, primarily acting for national residential social landlords on the design and construction aspects of affordable housing development projects. She also advises Right to Manage, and Resident Management companies across the country on a variety of contracts in relation to re-cladding residential blocks of flats post the Grenfell tragedy. These include grant funding agreements with the Greater London Authority and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, design and construction contracts, and related collateral warranties required for the re-cladding works.

Lucilla advises clients on many types of energy-related projects, adopting a wide variety of contracts, including the NEC suite of agreements, MF1, LOGIC and FIDIC. Examples include the development of facilities at the Port of Tyne for processing wood pellets for power generation; acting for electricity companies in drafting and negotiating multi-million contracts for generating plants, interconnectors and submarine cables; the construction of heat recycling and CHP units; and anaerobic digester projects, for the conversion of waste material from the food production industry into green energy.

Lucilla has over 30 years experience advising the public sector on a range of contracts, including strategic partnering agreements with the private sector for the design, build, finance and operation of accommodation and infrastructure projects, development agreements, design and construction contracts, facilities management contracts and interface agreements. She advises cross sector including local government, education, health, energy and renewables, transport, and infrastructure. 

Lucilla is a partner in the Construction and Engineering. Having led multi-disciplinary legal teams to deliver partnership projects between the public and private sectors over many years, she is very experienced in project managing the legal workstreams required to deliver projects to her clients’ requirements. She works closely with her clients, their other advisors and all the other parties and their advisors involved in the projects, including delivery partners, their supply chain and funders. She pre-empts issues and provides constructive and practical solutions.

Her projects have included the delivery of new local authority office accommodation, joint service centres, leisure centres, police headquarters and firing range, town police offices, household waste recycling centres, waste recycling plants, schools, further and higher education buildings, hospitals, and GP surgeries, These have been procured under a number of Government initiatives: the Private Finance Initiative, NHS LIFT and Building Schools for the Future and similar models. She is currently advising Tees Valley Combined Authority on their City Region Sustainable Transport programme.