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Prepared fit-out contractor’s delay and disruption claim with additional associated costs for a five-star hotel due to construction work delay by the main contractor, the MEP subcontractor, constant changes in fit-out works, and delay in approvals by both the consultant and client.

Prepared interior design/fit-out contractor’s delay claim with additional associated costs for five hospitality buildings, a ballroom, a marina, and external works due to construction work delay by the main contractor, the MEP subcontractor, and delay in approvals by the client.

Prepared main contractor’s claim against employer for extension of time for completion with additional payment for the Dubai Maritime City Project. Prepared Statement of Claim for extension of time with quantum for time-related and non-time-related additional costs. The dispute concerned construction delays due to multiple reasons that were attributed to the employer, such as delay in review and approval of submittals, excessive variations, lack of access and obstructions to site, and delay in issuance of IFC drawings.

Prepared main contractor’s delay and disruption claim with additional costs on two of The Pearl Qatar residential towers, Plots 20 and 21, due to change orders issued by the client for finished works. Testified concerning the validity of the delay analysis and the resultant cause-effect on the project contractual milestones and the validity of the additional costs claimed by the main contractor.

Prepared main design-build contractor’s delay and disruption claim with additional associated costs for the Madina Centrale Project for The Pearl Qatar due to major changes in the structural and architectural design by the consultant and client. Testified concerning the validity of the delay analysis and the resultant cause-effect on the project completion date and the reasonableness and validity of the additional costs claimed by the design-build contractor.

On behalf of an African country, provided a rebuttal report and testimony in international arbitration regarding a claimant’s alleged value of its lost business opportunity after performing, at its own expense and risk, engineering and project development services for a port and rail project that it was not awarded. Evaluated the class of the claimant’s estimates of the project costs before and after it performed its de-risking of the project to lower project costs and determined that the estimates were inaccurate based on the information that was available to prepare the estimates. Thus, found that the claimant’s alleged project savings and its claim amount were speculative.