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Chartered Quantity Surveyors / Construction Contract Consultants / Expert Witness Services
Arbitration / Adjudication / Dispute Resolution / Expert Determination

LIST OF SERVICES...

1. Valuation of construction / building works. Ascertaining building / construction costs. Assistance with accounts, pricing of variations / resolving
    final accounts etc. Costing dilapidations and building repairs etc.

2. Adjudication services / assistance with the preparation of Referral notices and defences / responses to Referrals etc. Acting as representative
    in adjudications

3. Contract Administration, Project Management and Commercial Management of Construction Projects.

4. Procurement advice / assistance with sorting out contracts with Employers / Clients, Subcontractors and Suppliers etc. Review and comment
    on contract documentation prepared by parties to identify risks and potential problems etc and drafting suitable responses to orders etc.

5. Pre-contract or post contract legal and contractual advice, either verbally or in reports, on matters in contention / dispute.

6. Loss and Expense Claims / claim evaluation and defence. Advice on Counterclaims & set offs. Resolving contra charges, set offs and
    counterclaims imposed by the other party.

7. Applying for extensions of time. Defences to delay / claims from Employers and Main Contractors. Resolving Liquidated and Ascertained
    Damages.

8. Arbitration or Litigation support. Acting as Expert Witness and providing Expert Determination services.

9. Debt collection / Payment difficulties.

EXAMPLES OF ASSISTANCE PROVIDED TO SOLICITORS.

10. Preparation of Joint Expert Reports: a) on the building costs of a restaurant in Aberystwth and b) on the condition and costs of repairing a
      dilapidated Public House in Birmingham.

11. Assisting with the defence to an adjudication Referral concerning the delays and costs for an extension to a house in Leicester.

EXAMPLES OF ASSISTANCE PROVIDED TO MAIN CONTRACTORS.

12. For a Design & Build Main Contractor, operating in the Health Sector -Adjudication assistance i.e. preparation of Referral Notice and
      managing process, for a dispute, on a £1.5 million project. Dispute settled part way through process with settlement of £150,000.00.

13. Design & Build Main Contractor operating in commercial and housing sectors – preparation of loss and expense / extension of time claims for
      a £4.25 million and £11 million project.

      13.1 For same company – review and defence to delay / loss & expense claim totalling £600,000 from an M&E  subcontractor.

      13.2 Ditto – assistance with resolving problem M&E variations.

      13.3 Preparation of Adjudication Referral Documents.

EXAMPLES OF ASSISTANCE PROVIDED TO SUBCONTRACTORS.

14. Assisting with resolution of disputed account / variations for labour only electrical and plumbing companies employed under sub-sub
      contracts by national M&E company.

15. Assisting an M&E subcontractor with account problems on a £1 million plus labour and material school subcontract in London and providing
      adjudication input / assistance in 2nr.successful adjudications against large international contractor

      15.1 For same company, providing similar input but in respect of a magistrates court for a data cabling sub-sub contract which went to
              adjudication. Assisted with successful adjudication against the M&E subcontractor.

16. Assisting with contractual correspondence and loss & expense claims on an apartment project in London.

17. Flooring Subcontractor – review and comment on subcontract documents prepared by main contractors and drafting suitable responses.
      Preparation of standard terms and conditions.

18. For fix only Window Installers - Review subcontracts prepared by Main contractors and drafting suitable responses on risks and items
      to clarify etc. Assisting / helping, with the resolution of problem accounts and debt collection. Preparing, disruption / lack of productivity
      claim documents. Attending contract negotiation and pre-let meetings with main contractors.

19. For Curtain Walling Subcontractor - defence to contra charges / set off costs for delay i.e. preparing extension of time applications and loss
      expanse claim submissions.

20. Assisting a dry lining, plastering & ceiling subcontractor with an account in dispute with a main contractor and assisting with an adjudication.

EXAMPLES OF ASSISTANCE PROVIDED TO A SUPPLIER.

21. Window Supplier - assisted with the resolution of set offs / contra charges imposed by Main Contractors operating in the Manchester area.

22. Drafting / preparing conditions of contract / sale

EXAMPLES OF ASSISTANCE PROVIDED TO CONSUMERS / MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.

23. Assisting a Client with the defence to a claim from Building Surveyor for disputed fees and with a counterclaim for negligence in respect
      to the contract administration of a house extension..

24. Acting as a Contract Administrator on an extension to a property.

EXAMPLES OF ASSISTANCE PROVIDED TO OTHER CONSULTANTS.

25. For a Construction Contract Consultant – part of a team working on a Litigation case, against a Structural Engineer, for design problems
      on an apartment / commercial complex job in Scotland.

     25.1 For same firm - part of a team working on a Litigation case against a Management Contractor who organized the construction of a
            Hotel in London.

     25.2 For same firm - part of a team working on an arbitration concerning a bridge.

26. For another Construction Contract Consultant – part of a team working on a London Stadium in the initial stages of the dispute between the
      Main Contractor and the structural steelwork subcontractor. Report for a power supply subcontractor working on a railway contract
      on possible claims..