Recent appointments include:
- ICC Arbitrator coastal highway Equatorial Guinea
- ICC Arbitrator Ministry of Finance development Romania
- ICC Arbitrator Zabalgarbi Waste & Energy plant Bilbao
Spain
- Arbitration Tribunal Expert Termoli Power Station (ICC/CANI
– Milan)
- DB Chairman Changuinola Hydroelectric project Panama
- DB tribunal Chairman Chacayes Hydroelectric Power
project Chile $275M
- DAB Chairman Merowe Dam Hydroelectric Project Sudan,
$1.8B project
- DB Sole member Dos Mares Hydro Power project Panama
$157M
- DAB tribunal member on Nicola Tesla power plant Serbia
- DAB tribunal on the Maritza East III power plant
Bulgaria
- Sole DB member MCA Honduras S3 & S4 highways projects
- Sole adjudicator on the £120M dispute at the Devonport
Nuclear facility in the UK
- Chairman of the DAB in the
Sudan on an €80M commercial development
- DAB member Mongu Kalabo project Zambia
- DAB member Deglos Solid Waste Landfill project St Lucia
- Sole DAB on Dambovita Solid Waste project Romania
- Sole DAB on Braila Solid Waste project Romania
- Sole DAB Historical Buildings Developments: Braila
County Romania
- Sole DRE on 6 of the Ethiopian National Roads Authority
highway projects
- DAB tribunal member on various infrastructure and
highway projects in Romania
- Sole DAB member Trans European
Corridor IV National Railway projects within Romania
- Sole DAB member Romanian Railways Bucharest – Constanta
Lots 1, 2, 2.2 & 4
- DAB tribunal on 8 highway and
infrastructure projects in Mozambique
- Mediator Nekempt Mekenajo highway project Ethiopia
- Sole adjudicator Save River crossing Mozambique
- Sole facilitator on the Kosovo B power plant
- Sole facilitator / mediator in Sri Lanka on behalf of
the Asian Development Bank, Sri Lankan Government, UNHCR and
the Affected Communities in the $300M dispute relating to
highway development
- Sole facilitator on the €130M dispute at the Burj Al-Fateh
Complex in Khartoum
I have to date issued well over 400 awards and decisions relating to adjudication and arbitration and have extensive experience internationally on the FIDIC form of contract. I also lecture and teach others on behalf of FIDIC on the FIDIC system and present workshops and seminars throughout the world on behalf of FIDIC. I have given teaching sessions within the EU in relation to the ISPA funding programme. I have published papers on the DAB system under FIDIC and am the author of Dispute Board Rules and Procedures published by the ICE for UK and International use. My co-authored book Dispute Boards Procedures and Practice is published by Thomas Telford (2006).
I have served and continue to serve on many Dispute Boards under the FIDIC system throughout the world and am President Listed by FIDIC, having undertaken training and assessment for such listing. I am nominated by FIDIC as required under the General Conditions of Contract when a Presidential Nomination is requested.
I am a Chartered Arbitrator, Accredited Mediator and an international Adjudicator and have extensive experience of dispute resolution on a world wide basis. I have also undertaken the facilitation and mediation of construction disputes where disputed values have ranged from modest sums to claims in excess of $300M.
Membership of Professional Bodies:
- DRBF President 2007 - 2008
- FCIArb Fellow of the Institute of Arbitrators
- FConsE Fellow of the Association of Consulting Engineers
- FICE Fellow of the Institute of Civil Engineers
- CEng Chartered Engineer
- FIDIC President Listed
International Dispute Resolution Panel Membership:
- FIDIC Panel Listed Adjudicator
- International Arbitration Centre Lagos, Nigeria : Listed Arbitrator
- DRB Foundation Sustaining Member (US)
- Centro de Arbitraje y Conciliacion de Colombia : Listed Arbitrator
- ICC Listed Arbitrator : UK, Venezuela
- Centro de Conciliacion y Arbitraje Comercial Bolivia : Panel Listed Arbitrator
- Centro de Conciliacion y Arbitraje Internacional Perú : Panel Listed Arbitrator
UK Dispute Resolution Panel Membership:
- Past chairman Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Wales)
- Panel Member Arbitrator : Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- Listed Arbitrator : London Court of International Arbitration
- Listed Panel Adjudicator Climate Change Adjudication Service
- Construction Industry Adjudicator
- CIArb Panel Listed Adjudicator
- ICE Panel Listed Adjudicator
Other Skills
Lecturing, teaching and giving seminars on behalf of FIDIC and other organisations in relation to dispute resolution and the understanding of the FIDIC form of contract. I have published works on FIDIC and dispute resolution and provide workshops and seminars throughout the world on the subject.
Present Position
Arbitrator, Adjudicator, Mediator, Tribunal Panel Member, Dispute
Adjudication Board member and Facilitator in the fields of:
- Legal interpretation and contract conflict issues
- Civil & Structural Engineering
- Power, Oil & Gas, Infrastructure
- Building
Years of Professional Experience: 40 years since
qualification
Key Qualifications
Specialities
Dispute Resolution & Avoidance, Dispute Boards, Adjudication, Arbitration, Mediation and Facilitation in disputes relating to: Bridges, Dams, Civil Engineering Works, Roadways, Foundations, Infrastructure, Logistics, Multi-storey Structures, Oil & Gas, Power Stations, Tunnelling and Remote Location Projects including Environmentally Sensitive Contracting.
Professional Experience Record (Major Projects):
Changuijola Hydropower, Chacayes Hydropower, Dos Mares Hydropower, Merowe Dam Sudan, Burj Al-Fateh Complex Sudan, Termoli Power Plant, Zabalgarbi Plant, Dos Mares Power Panama, Chacayes Hydro Chile, Sibiu Motorway, DN6 Romania, EN1 Mozambique, EN211 Mozambique, Save River Bridge East Africa, various road projects in Ethiopia, QEII bridge Caribbean, Puente Durate Bridge Dominican Republic, Maritza East III power plant Bulgaria, Kosovo B power plant, Nicola Tesla Unit A power plant, Davenport Dockyard nuclear facility UK, Alexander Court (UK), Awara Dam (Nigeria), Baakens River Crossing (SA), Camisea Gas (Peru), Cata Dam (SA), CERN (France), Eko Akete (Nigeria), Gibraltar Land Reclamation, GIFMAC (Gibraltar), Grahamstown Sewerage (SA), Liverpool Loop Line (Underground Railway), Malongo Terminal (Angola), Oyimo Headworks (Nigeria), Port Elizabeth Freeway (SA), Soyo Terminal (Angola), Urucu River Project (Brazil), Coari/Urucu pipeline (Brazil), STDP Freeway Sri Lanka.
International Experience:
Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China,
Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gibraltar, Honduras, Italy, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kosovo, Latin
America, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Panamá, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Romania, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Venezuela, Zaire
Recent Tribunals have included such Employers as:
- UK Government
- Mozambique Government
- European Agency for Reconstruction
- Kosovo Trust Agency
- Sri Lanka Government
- Asian Development Bank
- Government of Romania
- Davenport Nuclear Facility
- Millennium Corporation
- Pacific Hydro
- AES Power
- Maritza East III Power Company
- Alstom Power Service
- Entergy USA
- Government of the Dominican Republic
- The Government of the British Virgin Islands
- Energia Molise
- Sener Ingenieria y Sistemas
- Ethiopian National Roads Authority
- Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Company
- Government of the Sudan
- Government of Equatorial Guinea
- Government of Zambia
- GDF Suez
Published Work
- Underground Concreting (1975)
- Project Management and the Control of Risk (1996)
- Official Translation of the Bolivian Law of Arbitration
(1999)
- Arbitration in Latinamerica I (1999)
- Arbitration in Latinamerica II (2000)
- DRB Procedures Under FIDIC (2002)
- Chairman of draughting panel for new UK ICE DRB/DAB
Procedures (2004)
- Dispute Boards: Procedures & Practice (2007)
Brunel Tunnelling Prize (1975)
Bronze Award for contribution to Civil Engineering in Cape Province
SA (1978) |
