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

Building regulations • Fire safety risk assessment • Fire regulations • Timberframe fire safety

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

David is part of the architects' practice Purcell, who have offices around the UK, thus providing a local presence. His direct email is given above. • Practised since 1973 • Special expertise with historic buildings • How architects work and the standards expected of them • How buildings are procured, designed and constructed • How contractors work and the standards expected of them • Investigating defects, identifying causes and responsibility • Building contracts, standard forms, use and interpretation

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.

Architecture • Building defects and regulations • Health and safety

David is part of the architects' practice Purcell, who have offices around the UK, thus providing a local presence. His direct email is given above. • Practised since 1973 • Special expertise with historic buildings • How architects work and the standards expected of them • How buildings are procured, designed and constructed • How contractors work and the standards expected of them • Investigating defects, identifying causes and responsibility • Building contracts, standard forms, use and interpretation

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

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

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.

David is part of the architects' practice Purcell, who have offices around the UK, thus providing a local presence. His direct email is given above. • Practised since 1973 • Special expertise with historic buildings • How architects work and the standards expected of them • How buildings are procured, designed and constructed • How contractors work and the standards expected of them • Investigating defects, identifying causes and responsibility • Building contracts, standard forms, use and interpretation

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

• 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...

David is part of the architects' practice Purcell, who have offices around the UK, thus providing a local presence. His direct email is given above. • Practised since 1973 • Special expertise with historic buildings • How architects work and the standards expected of them • How buildings are procured, designed and constructed • How contractors work and the standards expected of them • Investigating defects, identifying causes and responsibility • Building contracts, standard forms, use and interpretation

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 • Concre...

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)

Accidents at work and on construction sites, including slipping and tripping cases • Disability accommodation reports • Building defects, including investigation of claddings • Construction disputes • Architect negligence cases, including fire design issues • Cost of injury, disability, death • Arbitrator

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...

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, ...

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

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...

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....

Construction defects: investigations and reports into defective work with respect to new and refurbished buildings • Professional negligence: investigations and reports into professional negligence of architects and surveyors • Contract matters: investigations and reports into contract and sub-contract disputes • Accommodation reports for persons with acquired disabilities

Structural engineering • Buildings • Retaining structures • Foundations • Basements • Car parks • Structural analysis • Structural design • Structural strengthening • Remedial works • Structural failure • Collapse • Robustness • Durability • Cracking in concrete • Corrosion • Concrete deterioration • Ground movement • Temporary works • Workmanship • Water ingress • Dynamics • Vibrations • Wind loading • Wind damage • Steel • Reinforced conc

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 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.

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 ...

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

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...

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