Two companies forming part of the Currie Brown Group are facing one of the biggest claims in the history of the construction industry over a PFI project in Wales. The ￡54m lawsuit relates to an incinerator in Crymlyn Burrows near Neath, for which Currie Brown provided technical advice. After the ￡32m plant opened in 2002 locals complained of odours coming from it. It was then shut down over environmental breaches in 2003. A few weeks later it was damaged by fire. Neath Port Talbot council is demanding ￡54m from the defendants, named as Currie Brown Project Management and Currie Brown Consulting, both of which have been dormant companies since Currie Brown changed its status from partnership to limited company. A legal source said: "That sum is a big claim in anyone's books -even large consultants only tend to carry professional indemnity insurance of ￡10-20m. It's unusual for consultants to face a claim of this size." Currie Brown Project Management produced a technical due diligence report on the project for investors in 2000. Currie Brown Consulting was appointed technical adviser to the investors in 2000 and the division was also directly appointed technical adviser to the council in 2002.
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