About Chris

Chris Armstrong co-founded McLean & Armstrong LLP with Brian McLean in 1998, the same year Armstrong was called to the British Columbia bar (Armstrong was later also called in the Northwest Territories, in 2020). Before law school, Armstrong earned a geotechnical engineering degree from UBC in 1989 and worked in mining and heavy construction, including at Tercon Contractors Ltd. Armstrong is a licensed Professional Engineer as well as a lawyer, and has argued two cases successfully at the Supreme Court of Canada: Tercon Contractors Ltd. v. British Columbia (2010) and Valard Construction Ltd. v. Bird Construction Co. (2018). The practice covers construction contract drafting, dispute resolution, procurement, insurance and bonding issues, and Armstrong holds fellowships in major construction law organizations and lectures at industry conferences.

Education & credentials

Law school
University of Calgary
Undergraduate
University of British Columbia, B.A.Sc. in Geotechnical Engineering
Other degrees
Professional Engineer (P.Eng.), Civil

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