FIDIC Adjudicator, Adjudication

FIDIC Adjudicator

Anthony Edwards

Anthony Edwards - FIDIC Adjudicator

Anthony Edwards, FIDIC Adjudicator specialises in heavy construction disputes arising from building & engineering activities both nationally and internationally, relating to: -
breach of contract, delay & disruption, time extensions, prolongation, payment provisions, acceleration, loss of productivity, final accounts and professional negligence actions against professional advisers including architects/engineers, surveyors and solicitors.

He has extensive experience in mediation, adjudication, arbitration and litigation.

He has worked with most of the standard forms of contracts amongst others;

JCT, ICE, FIDIC, NEC, IChemE

Worldwide Services

Anthony undertakes work worldwide and has carried out dispute resolution in amongst other countries UK, Iraq, China, Hong Kong, France, Norway, Turkey, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Uganda, Tanzania, Egypt, Rwanda, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Ethiopia, Montenegro and Middle East.

Qualifications

Barrister-at-Law

Chartered Arbitrator FCIArb Dip ICArb

Accredited Adjudicator (CIArb, FIDIC, IChemE, TECBAR)

Mediator, (CEDR, CIArb, TeCSA, TECBAR)

Quantity Surveyor, BSc (Hons).

Professional Membership & Panels

CIArb., LCIA, FIDIC, TECBAR, SCL, CIOB, ICE, IChemE, TeCSA, CEDR, ACE

Personal Information

Prizes: Awarded the CIArbs' Cedric Barclay Prize for the best International Award Writer of 2005

Awards / Decisions: Made a number of awards as Adjudicator / Arbiter concerning; construction and commercial disputes

Publications: Numerous articles in practitioners’ and learned journals

Author: Currently writing a book "Acceleration & Productivity Disputes in Construction" under contract with Blackwells.

Hobbies: Rowing, Running and Travel

Recent Instructions

Sole LCIA Adjudicator on an European wind farm construction & engineering dispute

DAAB on express road Uganda

Arbitrator DIFC LCIA arbitration regarding a development on Palm Jumeriah, Dubai

Sole DB regarding a consultant dispute in Dubai under a Silver Book project

Acting as FIDIC Mediator regarding an employer and consultant dispute in Abu Dhabi

Chairman of a DAB escalation clause dispute London.

Acting as counsel in an ICC arbitration dispute in Montenegro concerning consultant’s delay

Chairman of a DAB regarding disputes concerning piling, LV Cabling and ductile Iron Pipes.

Adjudicator on an European gasification plant

Chairman of a DAB regarding Hydro Power, Rwanda

Adjudicator on an European biomass plant and cofferdam sheet piling defects

Chairman of a DAB regarding disputes in a water treatment and supply project, Iraq

Adjudication Forth Bridge delay and disruption claim on concrete formwork

Chairman of a DAB in Dubai, defective concrete rebar pile foundation

Sole DB – highways Uganda.

Chairman of a DAB regarding variations and final account dispute Paris.

Chairman of a DAB in Nairobi, price adjustment/escalation claim

Sole DB – Uganda road, infrastructure

Sole adjudicator anaerobic digestion plant negligent design

Chairman of a DAB in Tanzania Commercial, Office and leisure building

Arbitration, Serbian power station preferred engineering dispute

Irrigation dispute Saudi Arabia

Arbitration, Turkish power station nr Ankara, extension of time dispute

Arbitration appeal (TCC)

Anaerobic digestion plant biogas facility final account dispute Adjudication

Cross Rail Paddington Station (UK)

Drax bio plant adjudication

Italian bio plant, final account DB Adjudication

Sole DB highway infrastructure dispute Africa

Counsel for end of life plastic to fuel plant, repudiatory breach, delay & disruption, Ireland

Norway, petro-chemical platform delay & disruption dispute Arbitration

Contract interpretation and construction of NEC3 contract clauses

European sports stadium defective design dispute Arbitration

Motorway infrastructure dispute Arbitrator

ICC arbitration Paris, power station material handling dispute

Architect’s negligent design regarding fireproof cladding to a block of apartments

Arbitration cement plants breach of contract regarding material handling plant & equipment

Adjudicator DAB African pipeline

Petro-chemical defective design arbitration

Arbitration bio plant breach of contract, Scotland

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