All aspects of architectural practice & procedure • Building contracts administration • Investigating, identifying & reporting on defects in all types of building design, construction & workmanship • Mr Cleveland has considerable experience of giving evidence in the High Court, the Edinburgh Court of Session, various County Courts, in arbitration & in assisting in pre-action settlement of disputes

Consultant for expert opinions on: • Architectural design • Listed building alterations • Construction cost estimates • Workmanship • Architects' services & fees • Professional contract dispute • Byelaw requirements • Areas of work as expert: • Design, planning & conservation • Building standards & practice • Construction technique & management • Forms of building contract & contract administration • Professional negligence & misconduct • Professional fees • Town planning ...

Experienced in accommodation & housing needs of the disabled, e.g. from medical negligence or road traffic accidents • Design of house adaptations for the disabled • Design of nursing homes & facilities for geriatrics & those with physical handicaps & head injuries

Architect's appointment: practice, international contracts, fees, professional negligence • Building contracts & subcontracts: obligations, delay, disruption, extensions of time, architect's instructions, certificates, practical completion, partial possession, liability • Building technology & construction: failures in materials, workmanship & design • Scott schedules • Intellectual property: architectural copyright • Town & Country Planning Act appeals • Public Inquiries • Adjudication • ADR • Mediation

Assessing accommodation needs at home & in the workplace for severely injured or physically/mentally disabled people • Formulating reports on suitability of properties to accommodate disabled persons in terms of mobility requirements, access & special needs • Designing suitable accommodation for disabled users based on expertise developed over 30 years specialising in designing for the disabled • Assessing & commenting on third party reports by other expert witnesses • Advises plaintiffs & defendants ...

ADR support • Boundary disputes • Party wall matters • Professional negligence • Expert witness for construction contract disputes • New-build housing • Refurbishment housing • New-build commercial buildings • Healthcare premises

Building surveying • All aspects of building litigation, including boundary disputes & defective construction • Subsidence claims, including subsequent remedial measures

Christopher Miers is a Chartered Architect and Chartered Arbitrator and is the Managing Director of Probyn Miers Limited. He is an expert witness, arbitrator, mediator, adjudicator and dispute board member with over 30 years' industry experience, and is listed on the FIDIC President's List of international adjudicators. He has an in-depth knowledge of building regulations and construction legislation. ...

Practised since 1973 • Practice of architecture: how architects work & standards expected of them • Construction of buildings: how buildings are procured, designed & constructed • Work of building contractors: how contractors work & standards expected of them • Defects in buildings: investigating problems, identifying causes & responsibility; advising & organising remedial work • Building contract & claims: standard forms of contract, their use & interpretation; contractor's claims for delay, loss & expenses, etc.

Nationwide service • Architect specialising in accommodation needs: • Reporting on the long-term accommodation needs of claimants • Assessing & surveying existing accommodation • Identifying claimant's specific long-term accommodation needs • Evaluating accommodation options • Providing full architect services: designs, obtaining approvals, specifying the adapted & extended or purpose-built work, including specialised equipment & fittings to meet claimant's specific needs

Architects' professional negligence & implied contract terms • Architects' appointments, contracts & fees • Building contract disputes • Building defects & failures • Management of contract claims, including adjudication response • Land & property disputes, including matters referred to Lands Tribunal • Determination of liability within the design team • Historical analysis of buildings • Execution of measured surveys • Preparation of visualisations • Preparation of expert reports • Attendance at court • Participation ...

Building defects & disputes • Boundary disputes • Building contracts disputes • Building negligence • Professional negligence

Building litigation including investigations, reports, Scott schedules & evidence in court: • Faulty construction, building defects & structural defects • Defective design & inadequate supervision of building works by architect or surveyor • Failure of components & coatings • Dampness • Defective building materials or components • Frost & other damage • Non-compliance with statutes, etc. • Dilapidations & acts of waste • Boundary disputes • Party walls ...

Water ingress • Building & construction: • Professional negligence • Contractual disputes • Contractor & subcontractor disputes • Architectural design: • Building design • Design defects • Construction works: • Project management (construction) • Architectural & building technology • Structures: • Construction defects • Construction failure

Architecture generally, particularly: • Residential work • Refurbishment, conversion & alteration schemes • Professional practice • Party Wall matters • Defects & building failures • Town planning • Educational schemes • Commercial schemes • Fee scales & payment on quantum meruit basis

All aspects of quantity surveying • Negligence: • Professional • Architectural & surveying • Constructional • Disputes: • Home improvements • Contractual • Fees • Costs • Boundaries • Contractual claims • Surveys & valuations: • Residential & commercial • Fire insurance valuations • Dilapidations: • Schedules of condition • Building repair & refurbishment • Defects & failures: • Construction, quality & failure in all elements • Plans: • Architecture & design • Personal injury: • Resulting from ...

Accidents at work & on construction sites, including slipping & tripping cases • Paraplegic accommodation reports • Boundary disputes • Rights of light cases • Daylight & sunlight studies • Building defects • Construction disputes • Architect negligence cases • Cost of injury, disability, death • Registered Adjudicator • Chartered Arbitrator • Accredited Mediator

Architect's negligence • Building defects • Construction contract disputes • Personal injury, falls down stairs, site accidents • Personal injury, adaptation of dwellings to accommodate resulting disabilities • Party walls • Boundary disputes • Construction trouble-shooting • Offices also in Manchester, Leeds & Chester

Experience in architectural practice both pre-contract & post-contract with particular reference to terms of appointment & construction methods & detailing • A detailed knowledge of building regulations involving legislation & building contracts • A member of the RIBA panel of adjudicators • A wide knowledge of landscape contracting disputes as a Director of Deberris Landscapes Ltd • Experience in preparation of reports under legal instruction as an expert both prior to issuing of proceedings & court ...

Construction & building contracts • Building insurance claims • Building disputes • Party wall awards • Rights of light • Architects' appointments • Architects' services • Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2007 • Construction technology • Building defects • Boundary disputes • CDM coordinator services

Personal injury: • Expert reports & single joint expert reports with regard to personal injury, including slips & trips • Expert reports into accommodation needs of disabled people • Construction defects: • Advice & reports into defects in commercial buildings & industrial elements • Construction contract matters: • Reports with regard to delays on site • Construction troubleshooting: • Investigation into causes of delays & implementation of strategies to complete works on site ...

Experience of giving evidence under cross-examination both as a party expert and a single joint expert • Able to accept instructions on: • Professional negligence by architects & building surveyors • Building conservation & listed buildings • Building contract disputes • Failures of contract administration • Programming & time disputes • Design, architectural & construction defects • Building design • Claims for professional fees • Construction professional indemnity claims • Accredited Adjudicator • Chartered Arbitrator

Chartered Architect • Director of C G Brophy • Over 25 years' experience in private architectural practice • Broad spectrum of buildings: residential, commercial, retail, industrial & listed buildings ...

I am an Architectural Practitioner, an Educationalist, an Author and an Expert Witness. All this is described in detail on my website www.tonymonk.com. As an Architect I have been in practice for some 40 years, and during that period first with Hutchison Locke & Monk, of which I was a founder partner, and now as a Consultant with Edgington Spink & Hyne. I have built over 30 projects, including civic centres, hospitals, residential, commercial, leisure and ecclesiastical buildings. ...

Building construction problems: • Negligence • Professional negligence (architecture & construction) • Home improvement disputes • Contractual disputes • Contractor & sub-contractor disputes • Improper contract administration (construction) • Claims investigation (property insurance) • Town & country planning: • Listed buildings • Architectural design: • Building conservation • Listed buildings • Design defects (faults) • Architectural defects • Construction works: • Project management (construction) ...

Construction defects: advice & reports on building defects & constructional elements • Building contract matters: advice & reports on building contract issues & disputes • Professional negligence: expert reports on site management & third party negligence • Property matters: advice & reports in respect of party wall matters, boundary disputes and landlord-tenant dilapidation matters • Building surveys • Personal injury: access auditing & reports on disability adaptations in buildings • Conservation: advice ...

Architect • 30 years' experience in private & public architectural practice • Partner in commercial practice • Broad spectrum of building types: leisure arena, sport stadium, assembly, residential, technical, commercial, industrial & transportation • Design, information production & construction of building projects • Television & radio transmitting stations, UK & overseas • Exhibition centre • Offices • Hotels • Stations • Airports • Museums • Housing • Swimming pools • Risk assessment • Health & safety audit • ...

Murray Armes is a Chartered Architect, adjudicator, CEDR-accredited mediator and expert witness with almost 30 years' experience in the industry and is a Director of Probyn Miers Limited. He has an in-depth knowledge of building regulations and construction legislation. ...

Chartered Architect, 30 years' experience • In-depth knowledge of building regulations & construction legislation • Able to accept instructions on: ...

Architectural & building matters related to the following areas of potential instruction: • Personal injury, e.g. assessment of accommodation needs, etc. • Disability & disabled accommodation needs • Adaptations to buildings in connection with the above categories • Disabled access • Building design & defects therein • Sustainable design & 'green' buildings generally • Village halls & community buildings • Report writing in relation to any of the above ...

Urban Designer & Town Planner with 36 years' professional experience in the private & public sectors, with expertise in strategic & detailed development planning • Specialist areas: • Masterplanning • Planning feasibility studies • Environmental assessments • Urban design & conservation studies • Listed buildings • Environmental & planning law • Planning appeals • Negotiating planning agreements • Principal author of Planning Applications, now in its third edition, published by Blackwells ...

John Priestley Associates provides assistance with the merits of construction & professional negligence disputes, together with the provision of expert opinion for lawyers, insurers & corporate & private clients involved in construction • Long-term experience in giving evidence under cross-examination ...

Professional negligence - architecture • Adjudication - construction • Mediation - construction • Building contracts - disputes • Building failures - architectural • Single joint expert - construction • Project briefing & procurement

Architecture & construction ...

An architect with 26 years' experience on a range of building types & sizes • I have advised upon claims against architects; investigated defective building fabric, especially external walls & flat & pitched roofs; condensation & air leakage; & disputes concerning inspection, valuation & certification • I have acted in mediation, arbitration & adjudication, as an SJE, & have given evidence at the TCC • I work throughout the UK for insurers, building owners, contractors & material suppliers

Acoustics • Professional negligence • Architecture • Auditing construction • Building alterations • Building defects • Building inspection • Building materials • Building refurbishment • Building Regulations • Conservation • Construction • Construction (Design & Management) Regulations • Construction technology • Copyright • Design • Feasibility study • Forensic analysis • Planning • Project management • Renovation • Repair • Restoration • Surveying • Traditional construction • Venacular architecture • Weatherproofing • Workmanship

Building & architectural acoustics • Noise control • Planning & noise • Licensing & noise • Noise nuisance assessment • Noise impact assessment • Hearing damage causation • Occupational noise • Inaudibility criteria • Audio & public address system engineering & performance audit • 1990 Environmental Protection Act • 1979 Control of Pollution Act • 1993 Noise Act • Common Law tort of nuisance • DETR PPG/24 planning & noise • Building regulations, Approved Document E • BS4142 • Health & Safety at Work Act, 1989 Noise at Work Regulations ...

Audio recording enhancement, transcription & authenticity analysis • Industrial deafness • Workplace noise assessment • Hearing protection • Noise & vibration from roads, railways, industry • Noise from airfields & airports • Noise from leisure activities, including motor sports & shooting • Architectural acoustics • Acoustic aspects of product design

Noise & vibration: • Road traffic • Railways • Aircraft • Construction • Industry • Mineral extraction • Landfill • Entertainment & recreation • Motor sports • Gun clubs • Hearing damage • Hand-arm vibration & vibration white finger • Sound insulation • Development proposals for housing, retail & commercial uses • Air quality: • Traffic emissions • Dispersion modelling • Pollution monitoring • Process emissions • Dust

Acoustics • Noise & vibration measurement & analysis • Planning appeal & public inquiry evidence, noise • Environmental impact assessments, noise • Transportation noise • Mineral working & waste disposal noise • Entertainment, recreational & sporting activity noise • Architectural & building acoustics

Noise & vibration: • Abatement notices • Analysis & control • Nuisance • Environmental impact assessment • Pollution control & surveys • Planning appeals & public inquiries • Acoustics (buildings & architectural) • Sound insulation • Entertainment noise • Construction noise & vibration • Occupational noise • Air, rail & road transportation noise & vibration • Licensing • Air conditioning & ventilation systems

Railway noise • Railway vibration • Environmental noise • Planning & noise • Environmental vibration • Planning & vibration • Building vibration • Building acoustics • Sound in buildings • Sound insulation • Noise at Work Regulations (holder of IoA Certificate of Competence in Workplace Noise Assessment) • Environmental impact assessment • Entertainments licensing • Pop concert or rave noise • Industrial noise • Noise nuisance • Vibration nuisance

Environmental noise: • Community noise problems • Sports noise • Music noise, including public entertainment licence & Environmental Protection Act hearings • Planning inquiries • Pop festivals • Transportation noise: • Prediction & expert evidence on aircraft noise • Railway noise & vibration • Road traffic noise • Architectural & building acoustics: • Building acoustics from studios to synagogues • Building services noise • Workplace & industrial noise: • Occupational hearing damage assessments & ...

Monitoring, assessment & control of: • Environmental noise & vibration • Industrial noise & vibration • Mining & quarrying noise & vibration • General noise & vibration • Noise-induced hearing loss • Vibration white finger • Product development & noise testing • Assistance in planning applications & inquiries • Transportation noise • Planning noise & vibration • Building services noise & vibration • Entertainment noise • Building acoustics • Construction noise & vibration

Environmental noise impact assessment • Measurement of noise & vibration • Sound insulation • Road traffic noise • Railway noise • Noise, nuisance • Industrial noise • Noise, planning • Building acoustics • Recreation noise

Over 25 years' experience in all aspects related to sound, acoustics, noise and vibration • Specialises in entertainment, leisure and sport sectors • Presented evidence at licensing hearings, high court appeals, public inquiries and Government Select Committees • Fellow of the Institute of Acoustics (IOA), Chairman of the London Branch of the IOA and was awarded the Institute's Tyndall Medal for his work in acoustics • Presented over 30 technical papers in acoustics in both the UK and overseas

Environmental noise: • Community noise problems • Sports noise • Music noise, including public entertainment licence & Environmental Protection Act hearings • Planning inquiries • Pop festivals • Transportation noise: • Prediction & expert evidence on aircraft noise • Railway noise & vibration • Road traffic noise • Architectural & building acoustics: • Building acoustics from studios to synagogues • Building services noise • Workplace & industrial noise: • Occupational hearing damage assessments & ...

Building, construction problems: • Construction negligence • Professional negligence (architecture & construction) • Home improvement disputes • Contractual disputes (construction) • Contractors, subcontractors disputes • Improper contract administration (construction) • Cost disputes (construction) • Professional fees claims • Programming, time disputes (construction) • Property insurance, claims investigation • Risk assessment (property insurance) • Claims investigation (property insurance) • Personal injury ...

Building & construction problems • Negligence (construction) • Professional negligence (architecture/construction) • Home improvement disputes • Contractual disputes (construction) • Contractor & subcontractor disputes • Improper contract administration (construction) • Cost disputes (construction) • Professional fees claims • Programming & time disputes (construction) • Property insurance & claims investigation • Claims investigation (property insurance) • Public liability insurance (construction) • Contractor ...

Building contract disputes • Surveyor, architect & engineer professional negligence • Valuation of construction works • Final account auditing & evaluation • Measurement of construction works • Fire damage & flood restoration costs • Contractual claims • Insolvency issues relating to construction industry • Performance bond guarantee claims

Building & construction problems Negligence (construction) • Professional negligence (architecture & construction) • Home improvement disputes • Contractual disputes (construction) • Contractor/subcontractor disputes (construction) • Improper contract administration (construction) • Cost disputes (construction) • Professional fees claims • Programming & time disputes (construction) • Claims investigation (property insurance) • Professional indemnity (construction) ...

Construction contract disputes: UK contracts of any value in residential & commercial construction utilising most forms of contract, JCT, NIC, bespoke, operating either traditional contracts, design & build, management contracting or construction management • Professional indemnity & consultancy appointment disputes associated with the construction industry: architects, engineers

Building contract disputes • Disrepair claims • Defective design & workmanship negligence claims • Building pathology • Building conversion & restoration • Party Wall, etc., Act ...

Building defects • Defective workmanship & construction defects • Survey reports • Mobile homes • Dilapidations • Architectural design • Party Wall etc. Act • Fire risk assessment

Health & safety aspects connected with the sport of golf • Accidents caused by golfers either to other golfers or to members of the public • Other incidents normally occurring on golf courses, golf driving ranges & golf practice grounds • Double winner of the British Amateur Golf Championship • Designed golf courses • Designed golf driving ranges on land adjacent to public roads & public buildings, specifying all safety equipment & setting out precautionary measures to be taken ...

Expert assessment of garden works, landscape projects relating to standards & quality of construction or workmanship • Professional designer & consultant can advise & report on all scales of work & practice procedures • Reports, surveys & independent assessment provided • Specialist advisor on private garden projects, land use & development of golf-related facilities • Landscape architect for planning appeals & hearings

Landscape design matters • Urban design matters • Landscape contractual matters • Health & safety applied to landscape contracts • Main areas of expertise for public inquiry work: • Landscape character assessments • Visual impact studies • Photomontage specialist, large-scale projects • All environmental impact work carried out to countryside commission guidance & methodology • Expertise in carrying out environmental assessments in Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) & Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty ...

Landscape design & landscape planning • Safety in the landscape • Accident investigation in playgrounds, on sportsfields, all-weather surfaces, tripping, slipping & personal injury • Environmental impact assessment, planning appeals, public inquiries • Advising on trees & Tree Preservation Orders • Plant species suitability

Yachts & small commercial craft • Sail & power craft constructed from wood, GRP, aluminium, steel & ferro-cement • Design, construction, safety & seaworthiness • Surveys for condition, valuation & damage • Professional negligence • Design & construction defects • Operation of small commercial fishing, transport & passenger vessels in developing countries • Compliance examinations for MCA codes of practice for small commercial vessels

Commercial ships - tankers to ULCC, general cargo, bulk carriers, ferries, offshore supply, FPSO • Leisure vessels - sail & power, dinghies to superyachts • Cargoes - grain, bananas, pineapples, fertiliser, timber, steel, cars, trailers, oil (crude & products), heavy lift • Naval architecture - structural & damage inspection, inclining experiments, ship conversions, salvage • Expert witness - arbitration & mediation, County & High Court, Crown Court

Professional fee disputes • Income tax & corporation tax-related matters, including investigations • Company law • Accounting-related matters • Professional negligence • Business partnership disputes ...

Intermediary negligence, recklessness & fraud • Insurance practice & regulation • Insurance policy interpretation • Property insurance & business interruption • Employers' public & products liability • Marine insurance & reinsurance • Reinsurance claims & disputes • Life assurance • I am happy to consider last minute enquiries

10+ years' experience in 'expert' work, including appearances in court & in mediation & dispute resolution proceedings • Specialist in insurance broker's professional duty of care & London insurance market practice • PI insurance advisor to the British Insurance Brokers Association (BIBA) • Properly trained in expert evidence skills & responsibility to the court • Experienced in supporting lawyers in drafting pleadings & finding comparables & evidence • Well known & respected in the industry ...

GBRW Expert Witness incorporates the business of Associated Insurance Experts. The combined practice has access to more than 180 associates, who can cover almost all areas of the financial services field, including commercial, retail and investment banking, investment management, insurance and reinsurance (broking and underwriting), pensions, stockbroking, trading, derivatives, commodities and HR disputes. ...

Insurance claims covering a wide range of various non-marine classes, but with the main specialist area being professional indemnity and liability claims. Over 44 years' experience in dealing with all types of non-marine claims, most of which was in senior decision-making positions. In that time, I worked in two separate Lloyds syndicates and the Lloyds Underwriters Non-marine Claims Office. During the last 23 years of my full-time career I handled claims for Syndicate 10 (Langtons) at ...

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Quantity surveying • Building surveying • Negligence of construction professionals • Construction contracts • Building defects • Contract claims

As an Approved Registered RICS Expert Witness (EWRS) with in excess of 35 years' property and construction consultancy experience, I can offer expert witness advice and report comprehensively on: ...

Building condition surveys (from limited to full inspections) • Architectural work (in-house architects) • Landlord & tenant disputes • Building defect analysis, particularly traditional & historic materials • Historic building conservation specialist (advice on all listed building & conservation area matters) • Prepared to advise on surveyor's negligence claims • Offices at Norwich & Bury St Edmunds

Advice on the use, design, specification & supply of timber & all wood-based materials (plywood, particleboard, fibreboard) in building & construction, joinery, shopfitting & furniture • Evaluation of workmanship & comparison with expected standards, industry norms, British or European Standards & Codes of Practice • Identification of wood species, treatments & finishes, plus comment on suitability for use • On-site examination of problems with wood materials, including moisture, swelling or ...

As a wood scientist, with over 20 years' experience as a consultant in the wood products industry, I am well placed to investigate and report upon the many uses of timber and wood-based products; both in terms of compliance with British/European Standards and to provide an opinion based on industry best practice. I've been involved in most things to do with wood, but have particular expertise in all types of wood flooring, as well as window and door joinery, decking and construction.