The construction industry has always been document-heavy. The advent of the computer was supposed to make our lives easier (remember the prediction of the paperless office?) but what it has actually done is spawn a proliferation of documents and a level of information that would have been unrecognisable to a project manager only 30 years ago.

While technology has greatly advanced how construction and engineering are approached, the changes to the volume and types of documentary evidence available in the event of a dispute have presented a challenge to lawyers specialising in the field. Yet the legal sector is catching up and there are now a number of ways in which technology is being used to make the most of the evidence available. Here are some of the tools you need to know about.

Changes to the volume and types of documentary evidence available have presented a challenge to lawyers 

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