Mr Mark Holden-Smith

OVERVIEW
Mark has over 30 years of experience in construction, and specialises in Construction Claims Quantum, Forensic delay Analysis, and Dispute Resolution.

Mark is a a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with the RICS, a Chartered Construction Manager with the CIOB, a Professional Dispute Resolver with the CIArb, and has successfully handled over 500 claims for Employers/Clients, Contractors, and Subcontractors in respect of avoidance and resolution of disputes arising under JCT, NEC and bespoke forms of construction and engineering contracts.

Mark accepts appointments to act as Delay & Quantum Expert, is a Registered Adjudicator on panels for the RICS and CIArb, and is a Registered Arbitrator for the CIArb.

General Experience

• Acting as the Adjudicator and issuing awards under the RICS Consumer Dispute Service.
• Acting as the Adjudicator and issuing awards under the CIArb Low Value Construction Adjudication service.
• Acting as a Delay & Quantum Expert in the Adjudication of construction and engineering disputes.
• Acted as Adjudication Party Representative for the Referring Party and Responding Party in approximately 40 adjudications as of December 2025.
• Quantified approximately 500 construction, engineering and delay claims as of December 2025, including but not limited to claims concerning: internal partitioning, ceilings, mechanical and electrical, joinery, painting, external cladding, structural steel framing, warehouse racking, concrete reinforcement, screeding, rendering, glazed balustrading, groundworks (including excavation, piling and concrete reinforced slabs).
• As of December 2025, over 100 Contract Review Risk Registers were provided in relation to NEC3/4, JCT, and Bespoke forms of contract & subcontracts. Advice on the successful negotiation of terms during the agreement process was followed in most contract reviews.

Specialisms

• Quantification of Claims.
• Forensic Delay Analysis.
• Independent Expert Reports.
• Adjudication Party Representative.
• Adjudication Decision Writing.
• Arbitration Award Writing.

Chartered Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS); Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb); Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Builders (MCIOB); Member of the Conflict Avoidance Pledge; Member of the Conflict Avoidance Coalition; Member of the Adjudication Society; Joint Author of Construction Industry Collective Voice (CICV) Practice Notes https://cicvforum.co.uk/downloads/; Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Committee Member; Fellow of the Institute of Construction Claims Practitioners