He has been nominated by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, the Construction Industry Council, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the Association of Independent Construction Adjudicators the Contractors Legal Group and through party appointments to act as an Adjudicator in over 200 construction adjudications.
Andrew has conducted adjudications which concern disputes about interim payments, payment notices, final accounts, measurement, re-measurement, valuation of variations for additional or varied work, extensions of time, loss and expense and compensation events.
He has dealt with the legal issues concerning the formation of the contract, the parties to the contract, the interpretation of the contract, including express terms and implied terms; breach of contract, fundamental breach, repudiatory breach, termination, damages for breach, liquidated damages, unliquidated damages, penalties, claims for payment, the rates for payment, disruption claims, global claims, quantum meruit, set-off and counter claims, causation, delay, concurrency, extensions of time, reasonable period of time, time at large; practical completion, non-completion, delayed completion; agents authority, ostensible authority, instructions for additional or varied work, defective work; mistake, waiver, estoppel and economic duress.
He is experienced in dealing with adjudications between all parties within the construction industry supply chain from Main Contractor, Sub-Contractor, Sub-Sub-Contractor, Employers or Clients of all type and Consultants. These have arisen on a vast array of building, civil and process engineering projects under various contracts, including the various standard JCT, NEC, PPC contracts with or without amendments, oral contracts and bespoke contracts with the value in dispute ranging from thousands to multi million pounds.
He has also been appointed to act as a Mediator and Arbitrator to resolve disputes concerning construction and construction supply chain claims and as an Expert to determine the value of the abnormal development costs by Expert Determination.
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