FIDIC Adjudicator Details
International Client Manager
Erhan Ozturk
Country of residence: Turkey
Citizenship: Turkish
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Countries with experience
Other countries with experience:
Global regions
- East Europe
- West Europe
- Middle East
- Central Asia
- North Africa
Languages spoken
- English
- Turkish
Construction contract experience
- Construction Contract, 1st Ed (1999 Red Book)
- EPC/Turnkey Contract, 1st Ed (1999 Silver Book)
- Plant & Design-Build Contract, 1st Ed (1999 Yellow Book)
Consultancy contract experience
- Not applicable - none of the above
Specialist contract experience
- Not applicable - none of the above
Technical expertise
- Building - commercial
- Building - industrial
- Building services - lighting/electrical
- Building services - Communications
- Building services - other
- Civil Engineering - Site Investigation
- Civil Engineering - Foundations and Subsidence/Settlement
- Civil Engineering - Land Drainage & Dewatering
- Civil Engineering - Tunnelling and piling
- Civil Engineering - Retaining Walls
- Civil Engineering - other
- Control & Automation
- Construction law
- Cost engineering (QS)
- Geotechnics and foundations
- Infrastructure, Railways, Bridges
- Metro railway and stations
- Road and highways - Planning, Layout and Design
- Road and highways - bridges and car parks
- Road and highways - other
- Rail - Hardware and Software, Control and Monitoring Systems, Equipment and Drives
- Rail - High Speed rail
- Rail - Infrastructure Engineering and Maintenance
- Rail - Operation Control, Passenger Information Display and Entertainment
- Rail - Signalling and Communications
- Rail - Track Engineering and Construction
- Rail - other
- Water - drainage and sewerage
- Water - Sewerage
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Claims and variations
- Extension of time
- Project scheduling
- Defects
Short summary experiences
Erhan Ozturk is a civil engineer who holds a LLM degree in construction law and arbitration and an MSc degree in construction project management. He has nearly 20 years of professional experience in contract interpretation, claims, and dispute avoidance/resolution for construction projects funded by IFI’s such as the World Bank, EBRD, and EIB. He has been involved in a wide variety of infrastructure projects, including railways, tunnels, highways, and industrial plants. For construction disputes, he serves as a dispute board member, arbitrator, and claim consultant. He is DRBF Country Representative for Turkey and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the Turkish Engineers and Architects Association, and the Society of Construction Law.
Position and experience
Acredited mediator:
No
Acredited arbitrator: No
Employment status:
Present position: Dispute Board Member, Arbitrator, Dispute Resolution & Claims Consultant
Previous positions: Ass. Project Director
Acredited arbitrator: No
Employment status:
Present position: Dispute Board Member, Arbitrator, Dispute Resolution & Claims Consultant
Previous positions: Ass. Project Director
Experience
- Arbitrator – Nuclear Power Plant project
- Adjudicator – Intercity Railway Line
- 378 km long
- EuropeAid
- €326
- 7M (FIDIC Yellow Book)
- Adjudicator – Construction of Wastewater Treatment Plant
- EuropeAid
- (FIDIC Yellow Book)
- Adjudicator -Sewage & Storm water Network Project
- IBRD
- €20 M
- Dispute Board Party Representative; Railway project with undersea tunnel; JICA
- (FIDIC Silver Book)
- Adjudicator - Storm water Network Project
- (AFD financed)
- Dispute Board Party Representative; Construction of suburban rail lines; EIB & CEB financed €1.4B (FIDIC Silver Book)
- Dispute Board Party Representative; Provision of rolling stock; CEB
- €590M (FIDIC Silver Book)
Affiliations/Memberships
- DRBF - Country Representative for Turkey
- Member of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb)
- Member of ATCEA (Association of Turkish Consulting Engineers and Architects)
- Member of Society of Construction Law (SCL)
- Member of DRBF (Licensed Professional & DB Practitioner)
- Member of Charter of Civil Engineers Istanbul
Qualifications, jurisdiction and discipline
- FIDIC Certified Adjudicator
- LLM Construction Law & Arbitration (Robert Gordon University -UK)
- MSc Degree in Construction Management (Middle East Technical University)
- Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering (Middle East Technical University)
- Associate Degree of Justice (Istanbul University)
- Member of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
