Providing clear & independent financial analysis & evaluation of arguments towards establishing economic measures of damages & loss • Including: contractual & tortious losses • Loss of profits • Business interruption • Reinstatement claims • Business & share valuation • Corporate finance • Intellectual property • Construction claims • Breach of warranties • Professional negligence • Fraud & financial irregularities • Money laundering, e-commerce & internet fraud • Proceeds of Crime Act cases, confiscation of assets & benefit of crime...

Geotechnical engineering • Geotechnical analysis • Geotechnical design • Geotechnical assessment • Heavy civils • Buildings • Bridges • Basements • Maritime structures • Industrial slabs • Infrastructure • Road pavements • External paving • Site investigation • Desk study • Ground investigation • Groundwater • Seepage • Foundations • Shallow foundations • Footings • Raft foundations • Deep foundations • Bored piles • Driven piles • Rock sockets • Pile testing • Earth retaining structures • Reinforced earth walls • Gravity retaining wall • Gabion walls • Precast concrete...

Building & construction problems Negligence (construction) • Professional negligence (architecture & construction) • Home improvement disputes • Cladding 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) Surveying & valuation Surveyor negligence Construction...

Structural engineering • Civil engineering • Residential, domestic, commercial, retail, industrial, infrastructure, education, arts & leisure, oil & gas • Buildings • Retaining structures • Foundations • Basements • Car parks • Offshore structures • Wind turbines • Industrial buildings • Heavy civils • Infrastructure • Portal frames • Tanks • Liquid retaining structures • Structural analysis • Structural assessment • Structural surveys • Structural design • Structural strengthening • Structural repair • Remedial works • Renovations • Professional negligence •...

Suspended ceilings • Partitions • Raised access floors • Dry lining & drywall partitions • Glass & glazed partitions • Shaftwalls • Plasterwork (solid & cast) • External render • Stucco • Subcontract disputes (building) • Interior fit-outs • Extensive experience in acting as expert engaged on behalf of building owners, main & management contractors, subcontractors & specialists in disputes as to quantum, performance, merchantable or satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose & infringement of design copyright • Appointments as expert...

Civil engineering • Steel erection & cladding • Reinforced concrete structures • Steelfixing & shuttering • Pipelines & drainage works • Scaffolding & work at height • Use of ladders • Tunnelling & tunnelling equipment • Marine work & offshore construction • Augered & impact piling • Grouting • Construction site practice • Earthworks & earthmoving equipment • Excavators & cranes • Contractual disputes & cranes Building • Structural surveys • Building defects • Subsidence & underpinning • Reinstatement following fire, flood or storm • Rising damp...

Quantity surveying • Quantum • Construction contracts • Quantification and valuation of work carried out • Quantification of damages, loss and/or expenses incurred • Liability in professional negligence matters • Liability in professional indemnity matters • Programming issues (e.g. delay, extension of time, acceleration and disruption) • Due diligence forensic examination of companies and projects

RICS Registered Expert Witness I am a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with 30 years' construction experience in commercial, education, healthcare, justice, industrial, mixed-use, retail, infrastructure and residential buildings. I have significant hands-on experience in numerous forms of contract, including JCT, NEC, PFI, IChemE and bespoke main and subcontract forms. Quantum • Valuation of work carried out and sums withheld • Application of Construction Act • Payment notices • Payless notices • Notified sums • Extension...

Structural engineering • Civil engineering • Residential, domestic, commercial, retail, industrial, infrastructure, education, arts & leisure, oil & gas • Buildings • High-rise • Underground structures • Retaining structures • Foundations • Basements • Car parks • Bridges • Ports • Petrochemical facilities • Offshore structures • Wind turbines • Industrial buildings • Heavy civils • Infrastructure • Rail • Airports • Stations • Silos • Domes • Concrete shells • Steel grid shells • Portal frames • Tanks • Liquid retaining structures • Structural analysis • Structural...

I am a Chartered Building Surveyor with over 40 years' experience in all aspects of building surveying and defect diagnosis, with particular experience in residential buildings. I am still actively involved in surveying and contract administration, and recent expert experience has related to housing disrepair, defective building works and criminal cases.

Residential and commercial valuations • Dilapidations • Building surveys • Leasehold extensions and enfranchisement • Japanese Knotweed diminution of value

Foundation failures, including heave & subsidence-related problems • Building defects of structure & fabric, including concrete, steel, timber & masonry buildings, whether prefabricated or in situ • Footbridge & cycle bridge-related problems of deck & structure • Concrete failures due to contamination, chloride attack, carbonation, sulphate attack, alkali-silica reaction, together with pollution-related problems & their effect • Prestressing & related problems, including prestressed & post-tensioned in situ concrete •...

Structural connections • Tensile structures • Lightweight structures • Mobile structures • Limited lifespan structures • Engineering for public art • Construction with aluminium • Building materials • Buildings: collapse, construction, structural failure, subsidence • Traditional buildings • Reinforced concrete buildings • Fibre-reinforced concrete • Glass-reinforced concrete • Piling • Foundations: settlement and structural failure • Retaining walls • Structural glass • Structural masonry • Structural timber • Structural steel buildings • Structural...

Mediator • Practising Certified Intl Commercial Mediator • ICE's Mediator/Conciliator • CIArb's Mediator • CIArb's CDP Mediator • CIArb's Personal Injury Mediator • CIArb's LB of Tower Hamlets Mediator • RICS' Mediator • CMC's Mediator • CIC's Mediator • TAE's QDR • TAE BMF's Mediator • Clerksroom's Mediator • ICC's Mediator • IMI's Mediator • IMI's Mentor • FIMC's Mediator • WIPO's Mediator • IOM's Mediator • BIMC's Mediator • AMATI • Mayor's & City of London Court's Mediator Arbitrator & Adjudicator • Practising Intl Arbitrator...

Grant has acted as Expert Witness on projects requiring rigour and expertise in contaminated land, geotechnical engineering and hydrogeology. He has 35 years’ post-graduate experience in engineering geology, geotechnical engineering, contaminated land, hydrogeology and remediation. He has an excellent reputation within his field which stems from his innate ability to effectively communicate, orally and in writing, technically complex matters in terms that his audience understands.

Academy of Experts & Registered Expert Witness Consulting Engineer with more than 50 years' experience in the UK, Middle East, Far East and SE Asia. Design of numerous low- and high-rise commercial, industrial and public buildings and structures, as well as basements, foundations and retaining walls involving: • masonry • concrete • steel • timber. Investigation of defective: • design • materials • construction • fabrication • manufacturing. Investigation of: • failure in duty of care in civil, structural and environmental...

Valuing of: • Pecuniary damages associated with employer delays resulting in extension of time to completion in respect of construction contracts • Pecuniary damages associated with disruption claims as a result of breach by the employer • Additional or extra work due to changes in design disputed by the parties • Monetary costs in respect of insurance claims • Pecuniary damages associated with incomplete work or poor work executed by contractors

Cases of alleged professional negligence involving building surveyors, including: • Structural surveys • Home buyers reports • Valuations • The design & supervision of building works & professional advice generally • Cases involving builders, including allegedly defective works • Cases involving defects in buildings

Expert witness and forensic investigation services relating to civil engineering failures and disputes. Areas of expertise include: • Collapse of steel, masonry and reinforced concrete structures and buildings • Construction site, workplace and other health and safety investigations, including the review of responsibilities under CDM, risk assessments and safe systems of work • Wind-induced collapses • Failure of retaining walls • Roof collapses • Structural damage • Review of structural strengthening and remedial...

Building contract disputes: financial & contractual analysis • Dilapidations claims • Dampness & disrepair claims • Party Wall Act • Defective or incomplete building works • Building defects: commercial & residential • Boundary disputes • Access to neighbouring land • Insolvency claims in construction contracts • Mr Frias-Robles is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS) • Party wall expert & Chairman of the Pyramus and Thisbe Club (Wessex Branch)

35 years of design and project management activity in the commercial fit-out environment provides me with a wealth of experience to solve problems with high levels of intuitive analysis. I have spent my entire career working and delivering complex projects in this field. 2023 spent in Montego Bay, Jamaica, delivering ' Bob Marley One Love' restaurant at the international airport • Caribbean experience • Island process logistic methods and working with offshore Colombian contractors importing finished furniture...

Housing conditions and fitness for human habitation • Building and workmanship disputes, including quantum • Building defects and pathology • Building insurance and warranty claims, including fire, flood, structural, subsidence, etc. • Professional competence and negligence of building surveyors and architectural designers • Forensic analysis of building surveys/reports • Building workmanship and standards • Building accessibility • Personal injury

GBRW Expert Witness is based in the City of London and includes the former practice of Associated Insurance Experts. Since 1995, our directors and associates contracted by us have been instructed as experts in commercial, retail and investment banking, investment management, insurance and reinsurance (broking and underwriting), pensions, stockbroking, trading, derivatives, commodities and HR disputes. Four of our directors - Paul Rex, David Croft, Tim Dowlen and John Turnbull - are active as experts and our...

I have over 28 years of experience as a handwriting expert • Specialist areas of work: suspected forgeries, the identification of signature & non-signature scripts, the verification of disputed documents & notes, anonymous letters & graffiti • Graphological assessments are utilised for psychological profiles, character appraisals & recruitment • Court expertise provided in the UK & abroad • Professional & reliable service • Comprehensive reports • References available

I am a chartered quantity surveyor with over 18 years’ construction experience in residential, Ministry of Defence, education, healthcare, industrial, mixed-use, infrastructure and commercial building. I have significant hands-on experience in quantity surveying and contract administration under numerous suites/forms of contract including JCT, PPC, NEC, EPIC/EPC and bespoke forms, as well as experience of most methods of procurement. I am a Partner at Quantum Experts and able to act as a party-appointed or...

Chartered Quantity Surveyor acting on building, civil engineering and railway construction projects throughout the United Kingdom, the European Union, the Middle East, Australasia and China • Over 30 years' experience of procuring and managing building and civil engineering contracts to completion, creating projects for the design, construction and delivery of major engineering infrastructure projects, procured traditionally and by PFI or PPP methods, including advising on alternative methods of funding projects...

I am an architect with 35 years' experience on a range of building types and sizes and in various capacities. I completed my MSc in Construction Law and Arbitration at Kings College London and I also hold a Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration. I am an arbitrator and adjudicator. I am a Member of the Institution of Fire Engineers and I hold a Professional Diploma in Fire Risk Assessment (Life Safety). Member of the Academy of Experts. Listed on the RIBA Register of Experts. I hold the Cardiff University...

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

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: • 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 (property insurance) •...

Quantum • Construction, civil engineering, railway, highway, infrastructure, building & refurbishment • Loss of profit in construction contracts • Breach of construction contracts • Extension of time analysis • Loss and expense claims • Flood damage • Fire/smoke damage • Storm damage • Professional fees Construction/quantity surveying costs Control • Planning • Forecasting • Estimating • Interim valuations • Delay cost calculations • Cashflow • Valuation of sums withheld Construction contracts Subcontracts • Procurement, selection...

Neighbourly & Boundary Disputes I have been appointed as party wall surveyor for building owners and adjoining owners. I frequently provide advice to parties wishing to undertake works close to or on the boundary, which may or may not fall within the Party Wall etc. Act 1996. This includes commercial and domestic clients. I am employed to help resolve disputes between parties over neighbourly matters, including the undertaking of building works or the removal of boundary features by one party, the position...

I am a chartered quantity surveyor with over 18 years’ construction experience in residential, Ministry of Defence, education, healthcare, industrial, mixed-use, infrastructure and commercial building. I have significant hands-on experience in quantity surveying and contract administration under numerous suites/forms of contract including JCT, PPC, NEC, EPIC/EPC and bespoke forms, as well as experience of most methods of procurement. I am a Partner at Quantum Experts and able to act as a party-appointed or...

Structural engineering • Civil engineering • Forensic engineering • Maritime engineering • Coastal engineering • Design • Construction • Workmanship • Professional negligence • Damage • Defects analysis • Cracking • Buckling • Corrosion • Deflections • Deterioration • Dilapidations • Settlement • Subsidence • Heave • Ground movement • Concrete quality • Concrete durability • Concrete strength • Concrete testing • Basements • Foundations • Refurbishment • New build • Historic buildings • Raised access floors • Floor slabs • Screeds • Structural analysis • Structural stability •...

Nick is a Chartered Civil and Structural Engineer with over 20 years’ experience in the construction industry. He started his career working on construction sites whilst studying civil engineering, obtaining a first-class honours degree. He then worked at a multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy in the UK, qualifying as a Chartered Engineer in 2009. Nick then began focusing on forensic engineering and dispute resolution work at a specialist consultancy in the UK, and has been working as an Expert Witness,...

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 insurance • Professional...

Construction final account disputes • Construction variation accounts • Professional negligence (quantity surveyor) • Bank monitoring • JCT, FIDIC, NEC and other forms of contract • Quantum

Building defects • Professional negligence • Construction disputes • Architectural design • Project management • Party walls • Flat roof defects • Roof defects • Window defects • Cavity wall insulation Simon has over 30 years’ experience in the construction industry where he has practised as a chartered building surveyor and chartered project management surveyor on a wide range of instructions, including building surveys, defects diagnosis, party walls, dilapidations, project management, contract administration and health...

I am a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with significant experience in the construction and engineering industry. My expertise covers professional negligence, contractual disputes, contract administration issues and costs disputes. I am the holder of an expert witness training certificate issued by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

During the 31 years of my business life I have practised as a surveyor advising on many aspects of residential and commercial property, investment, development and management. This includes: • Valuation • Survey • Pathology • Defect diagnosis • Sale • Letting • Purchase • Management • Repair • Advice on landlord and tenant • Dilapidations • Boundary disputes • Party walls • Right to light • Building disputes I have extensive valuation experience on residential and commercial properties throughout London, the South East and UK wide procured...

Extensive experience of building & contractual disputes • Investigation & diagnosis of building defects & preparation of Scott schedules • Advice on costings & building technical matters • Application of building law to boundary disputes • Landlord & tenant disputes, dilapidations & lease renewals • Residential, commercial & industrial valuations, including rental valuations • Insurance claims disputes • Professional negligence of construction professionals • Construction health & safety management disputes