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24 Sep 2026

Thursday, 12:00–12:45 pm AEST · 30 min + 15 min Q&A

The SOPA Tabletop: One Project, Three Payment Fights

Kreisson team · Microsoft Teams · Live Q&A

What is Common Ground

Complex issues, worked through in the open.


We take one complex issue in construction and engineering law, set out how it works in practice, and answer the questions you bring.

Each session gives you the mechanics of the issue: what the contract or the Act actually requires, where builders and subcontractors most often lose their position, and the steps that protect it. We work from real matters, anonymised, and put the decision points to you as they arise, so you leave knowing the notice to send, the record to keep, and the point at which to pick up the phone.

The second half belongs to the room. The questions raised by other builders, contractors and subcontractors across NSW are often the ones you have not hit yet. That shared ground is the point of the series.

Why Common Ground

Expertise earned through application.

Expert-led

Presented by Kreisson’s construction and engineering lawyers, who advise builders, contractors and subcontractors on these issues every day.

Twenty years in the industry

Two decades acting for the NSW construction sector, from tender to final certificate. The examples we use come from that work.

Connected to the industry

Long-standing partnerships with the state’s peak industry and contractor associations keep each session on the issues the sector is actually facing.

Built for the trades

For builders, contractors and subcontractors working in NSW. A shared understanding, practical steps, no legal background assumed.


Inside every session

What you leave with.

One issue, end to end

A single question in construction and engineering law, taken from first principle to what it means on your project.

Case studies from NSW matters

Drawn from work Kreisson has run, with the names removed. What happened, what it cost, and what would have changed it.

Live scenarios

You call the next move. We show where it leads under the contract and the Act, and where the room split on the answer.

Clause references you can use

The provisions, notices and timeframes that decide the issue, set out so you can take them back to site.

Your question, answered live

Fifteen minutes with the floor open. Bring the situation from your job and put it to the presenter directly.

The recording, kept here

Every session stored on this page, so the reference is there when the issue arrives on your project.

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