FIDIC Adjudicator Details

International Client Manager

Leo  Grutters

  Country of residence: Germany

  Citizenship: Dutch

  www.c2s-global.com

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Countries with experience

Other countries with experience:

Global regions

  • East Asia
  • South Asia
  • East Europe
  • West Europe
  • Middle East
  • Central Asia
  • Sub Sahara Africa
  • Latin America
  • North America
  • North Africa
  • Pacific

Languages spoken

  • English
  • Afrikaans
  • Dutch
  • German

Construction contract experience

  • Construction Contract, 1st Ed (1999 Red Book)
  • Construction Contract, MDB Harmonised Ed, June 2010
  • EPC/Turnkey Contract, 1st Ed (1999 Silver Book)
  • Plant & Design-Build Contract, 1st Ed (1999 Yellow Book)

Consultancy contract experience

  • Client-Consultant Agreement (White Book), 4th Ed 2006

Specialist contract experience

  • Dredgers Contract, 1st Ed 2006

Other contract experience

  • Red Book 1987
  • Gold Book (2008)

CV - Services offered

  • Arbitration
  • Adjudication
  • Contract Expert/specialist
  • Independent expert
  • Expert witness

Technical expertise

  • Airports - air-side
  • Airports - terminals and support
  • Airports - other
  • Building - domestic
  • Building - commercial
  • Building - industrial
  • Civil Engineering - Land Drainage & Dewatering
  • Civil Engineering - River & Flood Control
  • Civil Engineering - Retaining Walls
  • Civil Engineering - Dams and reservoirs
  • Construction law
  • Cost engineering (QS)
  • Energy & Power - Fossil Fuel Systems
  • Energy & Power - Nuclear Fuel Systems
  • Energy & Power - Hydro Systems
  • Energy & Power - Wind Wave & Tidal Systems
  • Energy & Power - Geothermal Systems
  • Energy & Power - Natural gas and LNG Facilities
  • Infrastructure, Railways, Bridges
  • Irrigation and Land Reclamation Manufacturing and Process Plant
  • Metro railway and stations
  • Road and highways - Planning, Layout and Design
  • Road and highways - bridges and car parks
  • Road and highways - other
  • Rail - High Speed rail
  • Rail - Signalling and Communications
  • Rail - Track Engineering and Construction
  • Water - drainage and sewerage
  • Water - Water Supply
  • Water - Water Treatment
  • Water - Sewerage
  • Water - Sewage Treatment
  • Water - Desalination
  • Water - Flooding and Drainage
  • Waste Water - Treatment and Pumping Plant
  • Waster Water - treatment/distribution
  • O
  • Claims and variations

  • Extension of time
  • Project scheduling
  • Other

Short summary experiences

I started my career as a site agent for a road construction company in RSA. Quickly became responsible for all contractual matters for all projects (Head Claims). From there I moved to a Dutch International Contractor implementing a suitable contract admin process for their MENA projects. Through this I was approached to join an international Claims Consultancy in the UK, but was stationed in the USA for an off-shore Oil project. From there I moved to Germany as claims manager for a large international power generation company, but still working for the claims consultancy. I was able to gather experience in most forms of power generation such as fossil fired, thermal, hydro, nuclear and off-shore wind. example projects include the Three Gorges Hydro Plant in China, OL3 Nuclear Plant in Finland, Gubrah Power/Desal Plant in Oman, etc.From 2002 I was also involved as contract admin on large international roads projects as well as airports and railway projects and dams. Example projects include New Beijing Airport, New Doha Airport, T3 Dubai Airport, Cologne Frankfurt ICE Railway, In 2009 I decided to concentrate on doing arbitration and adjudication work. To this end I applied for assessment to be listed on the FIDIC President's List of Approved Adjudicators and was accepted in 2012. I am also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb), as well as a listed Adjudicator for the VBI list in Germany.I provide services for clients that wish to initiate their own in-house contract admin departments by coaching selected staff members into such a position.I have been working with FIDIC Contracts since mid 1990's, and was directly involved in the drafting of the new 2017 version as a member of task group 6B.since 2015 I have also been providing training for FIDIC on their webinar Module 1 advanced series, together with Steen Frederiksen.

Position and experience

Acredited mediator: No
Acredited arbitrator: Yes

Employment status:
Present position: Director ADR and Dispute resolution
Previous positions: Contract Administrator, Trainer / Coach Contract Admin, , , , , , , ,

Experience

  • Contract Administrator / Claims Manager
  • Adjudicator / Dispute Board Member
  • Arbitrator
  • Trainer

Affiliations/Memberships

  • VBI
  • FCIARB
  • DRBF

Qualifications, jurisdiction and discipline

  • Civil Engineer
  • MBA
  • Dipl Arb