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Iain Aitchison is a Managing Director and a Delay Expert in the Global Construction Practice in based in London, formerly a Director with Navigant, acquired by Ankura in 2018. He is a dual-national British-German citizen. Iain has given expert evidence under cross examination as a Delay Expert in ICC Arbitration. He has experience with online joint expert meetings, mediations, and hearings. As a FIDIC contracts specialist he has given expert evidence on FIDIC contract administration issues in ICC Arbitration. He is a DBF accredited Dispute Board Member and FIDIC specialist with experience of major international DAB/DRB. Iain has authored papers published in the peer reviewed academic journals and has been a panelist and speaker at international conferences. He is a practicing arbitrator. He has been involved in the Vis Moot since 2012, sitting as arbitrator and chair, and was invited to sit in the elimination stage of the inaugural online final in Vienna, and to chair elimination rounds in Vienna and Hong Kong. Iain is bilingual in English and German, with certified German skills at CEFR C2. He trained as an Architect in the UK before registering as an Architect in Germany. He has international experience of lead design and management of major projects in the public sector, international private sector, and in multi-disciplinary practice. Until 2010, Iain worked on project lead architect on industrial, research and development projects in Germany on industrial and industry led projects with exceptional technical demands achieving firsts in planning, building and environment permissions for multinational clients in automotive, chemical and space infrastructure. He has extensive experience in leading/coordinating design. From 2010, Iain focused on dispute analysis and resolution of international construction claims and disputes. He has acted as lead strategist on construction disputes. His expert insight, team leadership, and dispute resolution skills have facilitated the structured settlement of major and highly complex underlying disputes on a World Bank funded distressed infrastructure project in South Africa.
He has acted as construction expert on financial audits of major new tunneling and track realignment and regrading works, and railway station upgrades and refurbishments for a state regulator of national rail infrastructure in Europe. |
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Murray Armes is the founder of Sense Studio, a leading firm of architects, specialising in global dispute avoidance and resolution for construction projects. Murray has over 35 years’ experience in the industry working on many types of construction projects in the UK and around the world. He is a Chartered Arbitrator, Accredited Adjudicator and Mediator, Dispute Board Member and included on the FIDIC President’s List of international adjudicators. He is also a Past President of the Board of Directors for Region 2 of the DRBF. Having been instructed in over 300 cases as expert in the UK, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, he has been appointed as adjudicator in about 60 cases for disputes concerning design methodology, building defects and failures, valuations and payments, water ingress, planning, practical completion, quality issues, variations, design issues, professional negligence, sustainability and delays as well as arbitrator in about 30 cases. He is also appointed to the Dispute Board for the ITER Prototype Fusion Energy Project in France, which is the world’s largest energy project and also to the Adjudication Panel for the new High Luminosity Project at CERN in Switzerland and for a large nuclear project in Scandinavia. Murray is a published author and regular speaker at international conferences on DBs, he is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (since 2007) and is on various panels with the RIBA, CIArb, RICS, FIDIC, ICC, IDRS, and CEDR. |
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Paul Battrick has over 40 years’ experience in the construction industry and is from a quantity surveying background. In addition to providing training, acting as expert witness, and mediator; Paul has mostly supported international clients’ throughout the dispute process, especially during arbitration and litigation. Projects have been relative to all sectors of the industry, and geographical locations have been throughout Europe, Americas, Canada, the West Indies, Africa, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East; contract types have varied from standard forms such as FIDIC and various bespoke forms. Paul’s background has provided him with an understanding of clients; the scope of works they undertake, their methods of operation and the locations and cultures in which they work. In addition, he is experienced in methods of avoiding disputes and the causes and remedies. |
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Wolfgang Breyer |
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Sietsche Eppinga |
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Geir Frøholm is general counsel for one of the largest Norwegian general contractors and real estate developers. He was a partner by Schjødt for almost twenty years developing and heading their construction, infrastructure and PPP department later head in SANDS construction, infrastructure and PPP department. Prior to his law practice Geir has been deputy judge, corporate and later general counsel by Skanska Norge AS. He holds particular expertise in construction contracts, PPP contracts and agreement with public authorities within the building and planning sector. He provides drafting, continuous advice and negotiation support representing mainly domestic and international contractors, advisors, and investors in PPP road projects. In addition to being a law graduate from the University of Oslo Geir has attended post-graduation education in US-law, business/management and mediation/arbitration. He was Co-chair of the Project Establishment Sub-committee, International Construction Project committee, International Bar Association 2008-2012, Chair of The Norwegian Bar Association Committee for mediation 2013-21, Board member of Forum for zoning and building regulation law 2006-2011, Chair Forum for zoning and building regulation law 2012-2014 and Member of Committee for building and regulation law, The post graduate education for lawyers 2006 – 2016. He currently serves as DRBF Representative for Norway.
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Jeremy Glover is a partner at Fenwick Elliott LLP , the UK’s largest construction law firm and is listed as a leader in his field in Who’s Who Legal. Jeremy is an accredited adjudicator, Vice-President of the Conflict Avoidance Coalition, and a member of the CIArb Adjudication Sub-Committee. He is also a FIDIC Certified Adjudicator, Member of the FIDIC President’s List and of the FIDIC Net Zero Task Group TG23. Jeremy is the co-author of Understanding the FIDIC Red and Yellow Book: A Clause by Clause Commentary, the third edition of which was published in 2018, and lead editor of Building Contract Disputes: Practice and Precedents. He is a member of the Board of Examiners on the Construction Law MSc programme at King’s College, and also teaches on the MSc Building Information Modelling Management Programme at Middlesex University. Jeremy serves as the President of the DRBF Executive Board.
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Diane Gollhofer Raines has over 35 years of progressive engineering, technical, and procurement experience in the construction industry mainly overseeing major capital construction projects with Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) and currently serves as DRBF Director for Region 1. Her signature projects were overseeing the award winning $1B Light Rail Green Line (CMGC), the Downtown CBD Mall Line, a mile-long commuter line grade separation bridge for TRE - built during operations, and a LEED’s Certified Police Headquarters in a historic trolley building. Diane’s projects were all completed on-time and claims free. As the South-Central Region Dispute Resolution Board Foundation’s (DRBF) Representative Diane successfully brought and implemented the DRB concept to DART, using it successfully for over 15 years. In 2011, Diane established DGR Consultants LLC, an engineering consulting firm specializing in construction management and dispute resolution and has since worked with DART, DFW International Airport, and TxDOT on claims avoidance and resolution, quality and safety management. DGR Consultants is a certified DBE, SBE, and WBE. Diane graduated from Texas A&M University, College Station with a BS in Civil Engineering specializing in Construction Management and holds a Professional Engineering License in the State of Texas.
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Nicholas Gould, BSc (Hons), LL.M., FRICS, FCIArb, MCIOB, is Past President of the Executive Board of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation and a partner in the specialist construction, engineering and energy lawyers Fenwick Elliott LLP, where he conducts a mix of international dispute resolution and non-contentious work. He is a solicitor-advocate, chartered surveyor, accredited adjudicator and CEDR Chambers lead mediator. He acts for contractors, employers and governments in the building, construction, engineering, infrastructure, transport, energy, oil and gas, and process engineering sectors. Dispute resolution experience spans litigation, arbitration (domestic and international), adjudication, DAB/DRB, mediation, early neutral evaluation and expert determination. He regularly acts as lead mediator in multi-party multi- million disputes. Nicholas is a certified adjudicator and sits on international dispute boards and as arbitrator. Chamber & Partners 2011 notes Nicholas for his “ability to pre-empt potential problems and provide advice in a clear manner that maintains the individual needs of clients”. Legal 500, 2011 edition list Nicholas as a leading figure for Construction and Mediation who is “extremely knowledgeable and listens carefully to his clients”. The IBA’s 2008 and 2013 editions of International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers Today listed Nicholas as one of the “ten most highly regarded individuals internationally for construction law” and the IBA’s Who’s Who Legal 2015 listed Nicholas in the top five in Europe.
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Leo Grutters is a seasoned Professional with over 35 years of experience specialising in Dispute Avoidance, Collaborative Project Management, and the Human Factor in construction disputes. He holds a Civil Engineering degree, an MBA, a Diploma in Arbitration (Dip Arb), and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb). Throughout his extensive career, Leo has served as both a Dispute Board Specialist and an Arbitrator. :eo’s expertise spans a diverse array of international projects in sectors such as roads, airports, transportation, offshore & marine, infrastructure, power generation, and renewable energy. His dedication to minimising disputes and fostering collaboration has made him a trusted figure in the field of dispute resolution. He is passionate about knowledge-sharing and frequently coaches and trains professionals on Dispute Avoidance as well as the inherent Human Factor therein. He is also an accomplished author of several industry books, notably on the FIDIC rainbow series. As a regular speaker at international industry events, and as a former President of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation (DRBF) for Region 2, Leo has played a pivotal role in promoting best practices for dispute avoidance and collaborative project management strategies globally.
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Luc Imbrechts
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Nektarios Mattaiou
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Gerard Monaghan is a Chartered Engineer with some 30 years’ experience in the delivery of major construction projects in Ireland and internationally with a particular focus on energy and renewables. Gerard is a Chartered Arbitrator and Fellow at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a CEDR accredited mediator and a member of the Engineers Ireland Arbitration, Conciliation and Adjudication
panels. He is an experienced ADR professional and is appointed regularly as arbitrator, adjudicator, mediator/conciliator and Dispute Board member. Gerard is a FIDIC Certified Adjudicator and member of the FIDIC President's List of approved Dispute Adjudicators. Gerard is also a member of the Minister’s Panel of Adjudicators established in accordance with the provisions of the Irish Construction Contracts Act 2013. Gerard is the current Chairman of the Engineers Ireland Disputes Resolution Board, a former Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Irish Branch) and is the Ireland country
representative of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation.
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Monique Nillessen |
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Giorgiana Tecuci Construction lawyer and DB member with over 25 years of experience. She is also trained in project management. She is a co-author of two FIDIC accredited modules (‘FIDIC Basic’ and ‘FIDIC in Public’) and a friendly reviewer of the FIDIC 2017 Yellow and 2019 Emerald books. Giorgiana is a FIDIC internationally accredited trainer. She is a founding partner of the first Romanian construction law firm SCPA Tecuci Păltineanu (2001) providing integrated advice: construction law, related public procurement and/or EU / MDB financing. She is a member of several professional associations (DRBF, ArbitralWomen, IBA, ARIC a.s.o.). She sits as an arbitrator and FIDIC national list adjudicator. Giorgiana currently serves as the President of the DRBF Region 2 Board of Directors and DRBF Representative for Romania. |
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Arent Van Wassenaer specialises in PPP, construction projects, and real estate and public procurement, both contentious and non-contentious. He focuses on DB, DBM, EPC, DBFM, Concession and Alliancing contracts. Arent primarily works for clients in the projects and utilities sector: investors; contractors; owners; lenders; and consultants. He frequently lectures on innovative aspects of construction projects. Arent is The Netherlands’ Chair of the IPFA Council. He was Chair of the Section on Energy, Environmental, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law of the International Bar Association from 2010 to 2012. Arent is DRBF Representative for the Netherlands. |
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