Chartered Building Surveyor, RICS Adjudicator, RICS and CEDR Accredited Mediator • Qualified Expert with specialisms in the following: • Building defects and pathology - investigation of structural failures, water ingress, damp and mould, workmanship quality, and compliance with regulations; assessment of causation and quantum of remedial works. • Contractual disputes - interpretation of JCT, NEC and PPC2000 contracts; breach and termination matters; assessment of work completed; quality of construction work completed; delay analysis, disruption and variation claims; ...

I am qualified to deal with a number of general practice & building surveying matters. In recent years I have been involved in providing expert advice in connection with a wide range of property types & scenarios, including • Environmental issues to dilapidations • Effect on value of proximity of an organic landfill site • Valuations for development purposes, particularly in relation to housing associations • Alleged valuation disputes & negligence relating to unidentified defects in survey reports. I have provided expert witness evidence at court &a...

During the 39 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 ...

Building defects • Defective workmanship & construction defects • Survey reports • Mobile homes • Dilapidations • Architectural design • Building surveying General building cases: South West England & South Wales; mobile home cases: UK-wide

I am a Chartered Building Surveyor and a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors with over a decade of surveying experience. I have also completed the RICS Expert Witness Certificate, and am familiar with providing CPR35-compliant reports. The majority of my experience is within core building surveying services, providing building surveys, building pathology and defect diagnosis, damp diagnosis and contract administration. I have a specific skillset within the heritage and listed buildings sector, providing advice on sympathetic repairs and traditional materials....

Valuation of residential properties for taxation purposes (e.g. IHT, CGT) • Valuations for probate, trusts and Court of Protection matters • Valuation of residential property • Consideration of structural defects • Professional negligence of property professionals & solicitors • Boundary disputes • Effect of above matters on property values • Surveying, professional negligence • Structural surveying, professional negligence • Leasehold extension & freehold enfranchisement cases

Air conditioning installations • Chilled water and condenser water services • Commissioning of mechanical engineering services • Gas-fired boiler plant installations • Heating installations (LTHW, MTHW or HTHW) • Heat pump installations • Commercial hot and cold water services • Kitchen ventilation systems • Laboratory ventilation • Local extract ventilation systems • Pipework installations • Steam and condensate installations • Supply and extract ventilation systems • Thermal insulation in respect of MEP engineering

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

Building surveying • Building pathology and building defects • Construction disputes • Professional negligence in relation to building surveying and contract administration • Dilapidations • Party wall matters

• RICS Registered Valuer • RICS Accredited Expert Witness An experienced expert witness in the following valuation matters: • Professional negligence claims • Dilapidations disputes (Section 18 (1) valuations) • Diminution valuations • Commercial and residential property disputes • Restrictive covenants • Matrimonial disputes • Landlord & Tenant Act 1954 lease renewals • References to arbitrators and independent experts • Mediation

Land use and development planning • All aspects of town planning, including national and local planning policy • Planning and related legislation • National planning practice guidance • Local planning policy • Listed buildings and conservation areas • Development management/control • Case examples include numerous planning appeal inquiries • Contractual disputes • Casino licensing hearings and appeals • Compulsory purchase/Lands Tribunal • Judicial review of planning decisions • Injunctions, etc.

Nigel is a well-respected and experienced building surveyor. He has particular expertise in the design and management of disabled adaptations. Nigel's early career (1977-1985) was spent as a District Building Officer with NHS Estates. Nigel was responsible for the management of capital programmes, overseeing the refurbishment of the NHS Estate and managing the maintenance teams. Nigel started his own practice in 1985 to provide surveying and project management services. Nigel has built a varied client base, including private individuals, local authorities, companies and work in relation to ins...

With over 20 years of experience, Dr Ahmed Rezk has worked with numerous lawyers and clients, providing expert reports on matters involving cooling, heating and heat pumps, as well as complex thermal and renewable systems, energy efficiency and sustainability. His reports are supported, where necessary, by non-invasive measurements and thermographic analysis of complex systems, which also support evidence-based RCA investigations. Dr Rezk is a Mechanical Engineer by education and is internationally recognised as a consultant and academic. He is a Chartered Engineer with the U...

Party wall disputes • Building contract disputes - typically domestic to a value of £250,000 • Residential service charge disputes - acting for either freeholder or leaseholder • Housing disrepair - Section 11 complaints - acting for either landlord or tenant • Building element condition and compliance for personal injury cases (and similar)

Fenestration & Building Envelope Consultant • Glass • Glazing • Frames in wood, steel, aluminium, PVC, etc. • Curtain walling • Conservatories • Overhead glazing • Safety verification • Conservation glass • Stained & coloured glass • Rainscreen cladding • Thermal imaging • Thermography infrared surveys • Building defects • Water ingress • Thermal performance • Accredited & Registered Mediator

Building defects • Works not in accordance with Building Regulations • Reviews of design information in relation to scope • Reviews of the design/construction of external walls with respect to Part B (Fire Safety) of the Building Regulations (e.g. material specification, cavity barriers) • Performance of the architect or lead designer

Construction/civil engineering - delays, including the following disciplines: • Highways • Structures • Marine • Building • M&E • Facades • Infrastructure • Airports • Rail • Civil engineering • Construction • High-end residential

Quantity surveying matters • Building surveying matters • Delay matters • Specialising in mechanical and electrical services

Chartered Surveyor and Registered Valuer specialising in all types of residential property across most of East Anglia. Providing expert witness advice on valuation and residential survey work.

Compulsory purchase public inquiry & assessment of compensation at Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) • Section 18 LTA 1927 dilapidation cases • Viability in respect of affordable housing & Section 106 obligations for planning appeals • Negligence claims against surveyors, valuers & solicitors • Option agreements • Boundary disputes • Electricity wayleaves & easements • Marriage value • Ransom value • Mixed use retail & leisure development • Residential development • Retail & business premises valuation ̶

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: ...

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 single joint expert witness on construction disputes of all sizes and at al...

40 years' experience in mechanical building services on housing developments, hotels, industrial, health care, education, data centre, hotel, commercial, custodial, religious, retail, hospitality and high-end residential developments covering new build, refurbishment and refitting projects • Roles at partner and director level in the design of projects and running maintenance teams • Numerous expert instructions over the past 25 years

Experienced in sewerage and land drainage matters to include: • drainage investigations • drainage design • preparation of drainage contracts • supervision and management of drainage contracts • management of consulting engineers • hydraulic modelling and masterplanning of sewerage networks. Experienced in allegations of professional negligence against consulting engineers Experienced in allegations of bad workmanship against contractors

Domestic building disputes • Building surveying • Valuation disputes, including professional negligence matters • Surveying & valuing • Boundary disputes • Party wall matters

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 • Architect professional negligence

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

Provides professional services in the following field of expertise: • Construction defects • Building contract and property title disputes • Landlord and tenant dilapidations • Section 11 housing disrepair

Building pathology • Construction defects and costs • Boundary disputes • Professional negligence Other experts in the company: Mr Richard Brasnett Chartered Building Surveyor & Mr Aidan Stephenson Chartered Quantity Surveyor

I am a Chartered Surveyor/Registered Valuer and a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors with over a decade of surveying experience. I also have memberships with the National Association of Estate Agents, the Association of Residential Lettings Agents and The Property Institute. I am familiar with providing FPR25 and CPR35 compliant reports. My expertise is within valuation services, providing valuation reports for a variety of purposes and asset types from standard residential and commercial properties to some more specialist work, such as development appraisals and fi...

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

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 • Charte

Building defects • Building surveys • Dilapidations • Family disputes • Housing disrepair • Landlord and tenant compensation • Matrimonial disputes • Professional negligence • Party wall disputes • Valuation disputes

Building surveying: • Structural surveys & valuation • Boundary disputes • Party wall administration • Building defect diagnosis • Construction & contract administration • Building disputes • Subsidence damage • Leasehold dilapidations • Duties of a Chartered Surveyor or Valuer & negligence • Double glazing & conservatory disputes • Fire damage • Fire precautions & means of escape • Kitchen & joinery installation disputes Simon Levy is the Principal of an active, multi...

I have worked in private practice for in excess of 50 years handling non-contentious private client work, including conveyancing, wills, trusts, estate administration, legal and solicitors accounting, and probate work and more latterly in leasehold reform and residential landlord and tenant law, including acting for both freeholders and leaseholders alike. I have wide experience dealing with right to manage claims, right to enfranchise (collective) claims and claims under the Leasehold Reform Act 1967. I have a thorough grasp of the practicalities of the legal system, jurisdictions and co...

Short-term lettings, Airbnb and serviced accommodation: • Operations • Property management • Revenue management • Dynamic pricing • Occupancy analysis • Online travel agency (OTA) policies • Guest disputes • Damage claims • Industry standards • Housekeeping and maintenance practices • Landlord and management agreements • Loss of earnings • Business interruption • Compliance with UK short-term letting practices

Full-time expert witness experienced in technical report writing for building, development and construction project disputes and insurance claims • For claimant, defendant, contractor, employer, insurer • 40 years of professional industry experience, including 20 years at partner or director level in international property firms • Worked in the UK, Europe, US, Hong Kong, Australia and Dubai Building surveying • Building defects pathology diagnosis and causation • Inspections and survey reports • Professional negligence • Competence of...

• Chartered Architect • Full time Expert Witness • RIBA Register of Experts • Academy of Experts • Society of Construction Law • Experienced in architectural and contractual disputes • CPR 35 reports; has been cross-examined • Registered Mediator Expert architect in buildings and construction and professional negligence • Expertise on fire regulations, fire stopping & fire compliance • Recognised as an expert in the external envelope brick timber and cladding • Architect's negligence • H...

Iain specialises in the valuation of residential, commercial, agricultural and forested real estate in the rural and market town sector in Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire and the Home Counties. He also provides advice on many rural estate and development issues, including the value of restrictive covenants. Iain has over 30 years' experience of the real estate sector, providing valuation, planning and estate management advice and services to Central and Local Government, charitable sector and private landowners. 17 years were spent managing and advising the UK Ministry of Defence, Fores...

Geotechnical engineering • Geotechnical analysis • Geotechnical design • Desk study • Ground investigation • Geotechnical asset management • Foundations • Shallow foundations • Deep foundations • Bored piles • Driven piles • Retaining structures • Reinforced earth walls • Gravity retaining walls • Gabion walls • Concrete walls • Modular block walls • Embedded retaining walls • Contiguous piles • Secant piles • Sheet piles • Hybrid retaining walls • Earthworks R...

Japanese knotweed • Boundary disputes • Residential construction disputes • Leasehold enfranchisement • Valuations • Easements • Restrictive covenants

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

Architecture • Building defects and regulations • Building information modelling (BIM) • Design coordination

Expert Witness - Preparing reports under CPR Part 35 concerning boundary disputes, building disputes, party wall matters, professional negligence, Landlord and Tenant matters and building defects. Acting as single joint and party appointed expert witness, including numerous appearances in the county court and Landlord and Tenant Tribunals as Expert Witness. Boundary Disputes - Extensive experience undertaking boundary surveys and preparing reports for court. Professional Negligence Matters - I have experience of carrying out building surveys and Homebuyer surveys on a wide...

Building surveying • Building technology • Buildings • Alterations to buildings • Damp in buildings • Dilapidations • Dilapidation of buildings • Construction of buildings • Construction • Architecture • Fire • Fire safety • Building regulations • Boundary disputes • Party walls • Building design • Building defects • Construction defects • Building inspection • Building condition • Building Act • Building engineering • Building pathology • Commercial buildin

Professional - Neighbourly I am appointed as party wall surveyor for building owners and adjoining owners. I frequently provide advice to parties wishing to undertake work 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 of the boundary, matters concerning access over another person’s land and proper...

Chartered Architect, Chartered Building Engineer, Chartered Arbitrator, accredited Adjudicator, practising Member of The Academy of Experts I am a Chartered Architect, Chartered Building Engineer and Chartered Arbitrator with over 40 years’ experience across a wide range of building types, scales and professional roles. I hold an MSc in Construction Law and Arbitration from King’s College London and Diplomas in International Commercial Arbitration and International Maritime Arbitration. I practise as an arbitrator and adjudicator and carry out forensic work in rel...

Housing disrepair • Accommodation • Building contractor disputes for residential refurbishment and extension projects

Market valuations for all purposes • Homebuyer reports • Building surveys • Single defect surveys • Boundary disputes and determinations • Disputes relating to building works • Design of remedial works • Party wall work • Applications to Land Registry • Expert witness reports

General civil & structural engineering • Reinforced concrete design • Foundations design • Settlement & subsidence • Bridges • Drainage • Waterproofing • Roofing

Disrepair • Construction defects • Design and specification • Construction procurement and tendering • Programme management • Contract administration • Housing • Educational buildings

Architects' professional negligence • Architects' appointments & fees • Building contract disputes • Building defects & failures • Cladding & performance in fire • Contract claims, including adjudication response • Land & property disputes, including matters referred to Lands Tribunal • Liability within the design team • Historical analysis of buildings • Preparation of visualisations • Preparation of expert reports • Attendance at court • Participation in all forms of ADR • Representations in respect...

Building contract disputes: financial and contractual analysis • Dilapidations claims • Dampness and disrepair claims • Party Wall Act • Defective or incomplete building works • Building defects: commercial and residential Mr Frias-Robles is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS), Party Wall Expert and Fellow of the Pyramus and Thisbe Club Learned Society.

Structural engineering including: • Subsidence • Structural stability • Structural design of all major construction materials • Vibration of structures • Domestic, residential, commercial properties • Highway structures • Disputes in design • Housing disrepair (structural engineering) • Compliance with Building Regulations and Codes of Practice • High-rise construction • Foundation design (structure)

Disputes between parties involved in the design, specification, installation, inspection, service, maintenance and commissioning of mechanical and public health building services comprising: • Air conditioning • Ventilation • Heating • HVAC controls • Renewable energy systems • Hot and cold water services • Above ground drainage, gas and water utility services

Design of housing for people with mental & physical disabilities • Accommodation expert - housing needs resulting from medical negligence or personal injury • Housing adaptations for the disabled

Building pathology • Construction defects and costs • Boundary disputes • Professional negligence • Building surveying • Residential valuations

I am a Chartered Building Surveyor, Chartered Project Manager and RICS Registered Valuer with over 25 years’ experience in project management and general building consultancy across the public and private sectors. I have completed the Legal Experience Training Advanced Professional Award in Expert Witness Evidence and am a member of the Academy of Experts. I have prepared numerous CPR-compliant expert witness reports either as a single joint expert or a sole expert. This includes disputes over: • Professional negligence • Building and construction works • Hou...

• Dispute resolution claims, adjudication and arbitration • Professional negligence claims - Philip regularly acts for parties that are seeking compensation from a negligent surveyor or representing surveyors where an allegation of negligence has been made • Expert witness reports acting as a claimant, defendant and/or single joint expert in building dispute matters • Party wall consultant and published author on the Party Wall Act, first person to undertake doctoral research into the Party Wall, etc., Act 1996 • Landlord and tenant dilapidation di...

My field of expertise is in commercial and domestic buildings, having undertaken extensive instructions from individual clients, generally concerning defect analysis and forensic analysis of building defects within private practice (small Chartered Surveying practices and national organisations). In addition to this, I have considerable experience within the subsidence field, acting for both insurers and insured parties.

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 ̶...

I am an architect with 30 years’ experience, running a busy small practice. I have spent the last 20 years working on residential projects, including refurbishments, extensions and loft conversions for private individuals, and flats for institutions and developers. I have an engineering background and an interest in technical matters. Early projects included a fire testing facility, an emergency ambulance control room, repair and cleaning of historic building stonework, and warehouse bomb damage repairs. I led the technical design of a swimming pool built below a historic hou...

Building control and regulations • Construction contract disputes • Negligent construction and design • Housing disrepair • Building defects and pathology • Surveyor negligence • Valuation of property, including family, proceeds of crime, land with development potential, diminution, etc. • Party wall and boundary matters Also consulting at: 140 Ewell Road, Surbiton ,KT6 6HE.

Rating appeals embracing Tribunal attendances (including Upper Chamber) • Valuation disputes • Building defect disputes • Deed plans for buildings • Homebuyers reports • Industrial buildings - valuation surveying • Land valuation • Probate valuations • Property valuations - marital disputes • Compulsory purchase

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 single joint expert witness on construction disputes of all sizes and at al...

Building contract disputes • Disrepair claims • Defective design & workmanship negligence claims • Building pathology • Building conversion & restoration • Party Wall, etc., Act Mr Mathieson is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Managing Director of Ellis Belk Associates Limited and a practising Chartered Building Surveyor with many years' experience investigating building defects of both design and workmanship. In addition to his expert witness workload, Mr Mathieson has been involved with Channel 4 and the BBC on such ...

Tom Docker is an experienced Chartered Surveyor, RICS Registered Valuer and Accredited Accommodation Expert Witness. Mr Docker is a Tier One Expert for the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) and also holds the Certificate of Expert Witness Accreditation from Cardiff University Law School. He specialises in designing residential adaptation schemes and new-build properties for people with a wide range of complex disabilities, including spinal cord injuries, acquired brain injuries, cerebral palsy and amputations. He is actively involved, on a day-to-day basis, ...