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SOCOTEC ADVISORY LTD

Professional Description:

Quantum Expert Witness and Quantity Surveying Practice

Address:
SOCOTEC ADVISORY LTD
Queens House
55-56 Lincoln's Inn Field
London
WC2A 3LJ
Area of work:

UK and International

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SOCOTEC Advisory Ltd provides expert witness and dispute resolution services to a variety of clients undergoing formal action relating to construction claims and disputes. Our team is influential in achieving positive and equitable settlements in some of the most substantial global construction disputes.
 
We are appointed from our offices in the UK to projects across 6 continents, ranging in value from below £50,000 to over £1billion. We provide expert services in relation to all aspects of quantity surveying, including disruption and prolongation claims, variations, repricing and price adjustments, remeasurement, interim and final account disputes, quantum and delay, insurance and reinsurance rebuilding and damage claims, and other types of loss, cost or price-based claims.

Duncan Hughes-Phillips
Chief Executive Officer
MBA BSc (Hons) MRICS MEWI FInstLM ACInstCES ACIArb
Duncan, managing director of SOCOTEC Advisory (formerly Base Quantum Ltd) is a chartered quantity surveyor and a member of the Expert Witness Institute with almost 30 years' experience in the engineering and construction industries. Along with ‘live’ experience working on major projects, such as the New Hong Kong Airport and the King’s Cross Station Development, he has had a long, formative career as a consultant on a diverse range of short-term, troubleshooting roles, working at all levels of the supply chain.

Duncan’s experience, particularly with specialist subcontractors, provides him with an in-depth grasp of the complex minutiae of construction technology. This, together with experience gained across many, often difficult, commercial situations, provides him with an excellent skill set for his role as a quantum expert.

Duncan provides detailed quantum analysis in a pragmatic and proportionate manner. He has undertaken analysis on major projects around the world, including on airports in the UK, Middle East and Africa, power stations in Africa, oil and gas projects in Australia and Iraq, and highways, hotels and holiday resorts in the UK, Asia and Eastern Europe.

Alongside his experience of testifying in major international arbitrations, Duncan regularly accepts instructions from across the UK on smaller disputes in adjudication, litigation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution. He continues to provide hands-on advice on live projects alongside his growing team at SOCOTEC Advisory (previously Base Quantum Ltd).

Duncan’s testifying experience includes several major, complex, high-value international arbitrations on construction projects, litigations in the Channel Islands and international investment treaty disputes.

Tom Taylor
Managing Director
MSc MA MRICS FCIArb
Tom is a chartered quantity surveyor, quantum expert and managing director at SOCOTEC Advisory (formerly Base Quantum Ltd). He has over 15 years’ experience in construction across a wide range of sectors, including energy, pipelines, civil engineering, and major infrastructure projects, such as airports, highways and marine structures.

He has worked throughout the supply chain on projects of all sizes in the UK and Europe, and on major construction projects whilst based in Africa and the Middle East. His varied career has provided him with hands-on experience of claims and commercial issues under various forms of contract.

More recently, Tom has been instructed as an expert witness in over 100 contentious matters of varying size and value. He has been appointed by public and private clients, contractors, and subcontractors in litigation, international arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution fora, in courts including the TCC in the UK. He has testified and been cross examined, both virtually and in person, as a party-appointed and single joint quantum expert. Tom’s recent experience of international arbitration proceedings relates to major projects in Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Australia.

Tom's subcontractor background enables him to recognise that his advice and opinions must be concise, practical, and proportionate. This focus on clear and effective output allows him to tackle the key issues of a dispute and is of particular value to clients.

Paul Greenwell
Paul Greenwell is an expert witness for forensic planning and project management matters and director of Delay and Project Management Performance at SOCOTEC Advisory (formerly Base Quantum Ltd). He acts for clients in international arbitration and litigation and has provided expert witness testimony in the UK Technology and Construction Court (TCC), in Dubai under Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) rules, virtually in international arbitration under ICC rules and in litigation in the Polish Regional Court (via translation). He also provides expert opinion in UK domestic adjudication.

Alongside these expert roles he also provides independent expert project review and advice on the programme, commercial and contractual aspects of major projects in progress, recently in the rail, power and hospitality sectors.

He has a planning and project management background with experience as contractor’s planning manager, consultant project manager and clients’ representative on high-profile projects.
Paul has more than 20 years’ live project experience along with a further 12 years’ experience in forensic planning and project management disputes on a wide range of major construction claims. He has been responsible for development of project systems and governance on a series of major projects.

Paul has strong programming, legal and contractual skills all stages of the project life cycle and has worked on disputes involving NEC, JCT, FIDIC, GC/Works1, PPC2000, Alliancing and various bespoke contracts.

Tom Walters
Associate
BSc (Hons) LLM MCIArb MCInstCES MICCP AssocRICS
Tom is an experienced commercial and construction claims practitioner with over 15 years’ experience working in the UK construction industry and, more recently, in the Middle East (Qatar).

Tom has predominantly worked for main contractors, however he also has experience working for consultants, including lead designers on major state projects. Tom successfully completed the LLM in Construction Law and Adjudication, achieving a distinction from Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. He has a strong background in dispute resolution and preparing and defending construction claims.

Damian Waters
Managing Director, Forensic Expert Witness Services
Damian’s experience includes:
Damian is a legally qualified quantity surveyor with over 35 years of construction industry experience as a commercial director, commercial manager, quantity surveyor and contracts consultant.

Damian has worked on a broad range of projects for a varied UK and international client base in the building, civil engineering, infrastructure, oil and gas, power and utilities, marine and offshore renewable sectors. Damian has provided commercial and contractual advice to contractors and employers on a number of major international projects and has significant experience in managing large multi-disciplinary teams both in pursuing and defending construction claims. He has strong commercial and contractual knowledge and has worked with a range of standard forms of contract, including JCT, NEC3, FIDIC, GC Works, IChemE, ICE, PW/CF, RIAI and various bespoke forms of contract.

Darren Cayton
Director, Forensic Expert Witness Services
Darren has worked on a wide range of projects from buildings and civil infrastructure, to process and power generation and ship building in the UK and internationally.

He specialises in the preparation, negotiation, and settlement of claims for disputed variations, prolongation, resource thickening, disruption, and verification of costs and has worked with various standard and bespoke forms of construction contract (including JCT, NEC, ICE, and FIDIC). He has experience of dispute resolution including drafting referral documents and responses for adjudication process.

George Melo
Associate Director
BEng (Hons) MSc FCIArb
George’s experience includes:
Lead quantum analyst in offshore LNG facilities arbitration in Australia.
Lead quantum analyst in combined-cycle power plant arbitration in Africa. Lead quantum analyst in geothermal heating system arbitration in Central Asia. Lead quantum analyst in airport arbitration in the Middle East.
Report drafting and quantum analysis in numerous matters and types of claim.

Danny Frost
Managing Director
BSc (Hons) MRICS
Danny’s experience includes:
Commercial lead for the contractor in obtaining a £120m highway scheme in southern England and the procurement of all major suppliers. Fully conversant with standard forms of JCT, NEC and ICC.

Provides training on the practical use of JCT and NEC for both clients and contractors. Acting as assistant expert witness on a dispute concerning a term maintenance contract Quantum assessment of loss and expense claim involving both prolongation and acceleration on large private hospital and quantum assessment in respect of anticipated construction cost of £60m residential development.

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