FIDIC Adjudicator Details
International Client Manager
John Papworth
Country of residence: United Kingdom
Citizenship: United Kingdom
www.johnpapworth.com
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Countries with experience
Other countries with experience:
Global regions
- East Asia
- Pacific
- South Asia
- East Europe
- West Europe
- Middle East
- Caribbean
Languages spoken
- English
- French
- Spanish
Construction contract experience
- Construction Contract 2nd Ed (2017 Red Book)
- 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)
- Conditions of Contract for Underground Works (2019 Emerald book)
Consultancy contract experience
- Client-Consultant Agreement (White Book), 5th Ed 2017
Specialist contract experience
- IChemE Red Book
- IMechE Model Form A
- UK Government Forms
Other contract experience
- FIDIC 4th edition Red Book
- FIDIC Orange Book
CV - Services offered
- Arbitration
- Adjudication
- Mediation
- Conciliation
- Contract Expert/specialist
- Independent expert
Technical expertise
- Building - domestic
- Building - commercial
- Building - industrial
- Building services - Heating/Ventilation/Air Conditioning
- Building services - lighting/electrical
- Building services - water
- Building services - Communications
- Building services - other
- Civil Engineering - Site Investigation
- Civil Engineering - Foundations and Subsidence/Settlement
- Civil Engineering - Land Drainage & Dewatering
- Civil Engineering - River & Flood Control
- Civil Engineering - Tunnelling and piling
- Civil Engineering - Retaining Walls
- Civil Engineering - other
- Chemical Engineering - other
- Coastal engineering
- Construction law
- Cost engineering (QS)
- Defence
- Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
- Geotechnics and foundations
- Energy & Power - Fossil Fuel Systems
- Energy & Power - Nuclear Fuel Systems
- Energy & Power - Hydro Systems
- Energy & Power - Geothermal Systems
- Energy & Power - CHP and district Heating
- Infrastructure, Railways, Bridges
- Marine and ports
- Metro railway and stations
- Road and highways - bridges and car parks
- Road and highways - other
- Rail - Infrastructure Engineering and Maintenance
- Rail - Signalling and Communications
- Rail - Track Engineering and Construction
- Rock Anchors & grouting Tunnels and Shafts
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Claims and variations
- Extension of time
- Defects
Short summary experiences
• 55 years’ experience, almost all of it in dispute avoidance and resolution and claims • Served as Dispute Board Member for nearly 20 years and appointed on 34 occasions, appointed Adjudicator, Arbitrator, Expert Determiner, Mediator and party advisor • Oil and gas, mineral extraction • Power plants (CCGT, nuclear, CHP, steam turbine, coal-fired, diesel), water treatment, supply and disposal • Engineering services – electrical, mechanical, instrumentation, piped (underground and over-ground pipelines, internal) • Marine – sea and river • Non-contentious work – contract strategy, drafting agreements and contracts
Position and experience
Acredited mediator:
Yes
Acredited arbitrator: Yes
Employment status:
Present position: sole practitioner in international dispute avoidance and resolution
Previous positions: o 1988-91: Legal & Contracts Executive in international consultancy o 1986-88: Project QS Team Leader in international consultancy o 1981-86: Senior QS in Contracts Department of international construction group o 1979-81: Senior QS of Major Works, then Chief QS of Special Projects Division of national contractor o 1978: Contracts and Claims Advisor with international consultancy o 1977-78: Manager and Consultant with regional contractors o 1975-77: Senior, then Chief, QS with Swiss-owned contractor in Ghana o 1971-75: QS with national contractor o 1969-71: Assistant QS with national contractor
Acredited arbitrator: Yes
Employment status:
Present position: sole practitioner in international dispute avoidance and resolution
Previous positions: o 1988-91: Legal & Contracts Executive in international consultancy o 1986-88: Project QS Team Leader in international consultancy o 1981-86: Senior QS in Contracts Department of international construction group o 1979-81: Senior QS of Major Works, then Chief QS of Special Projects Division of national contractor o 1978: Contracts and Claims Advisor with international consultancy o 1977-78: Manager and Consultant with regional contractors o 1975-77: Senior, then Chief, QS with Swiss-owned contractor in Ghana o 1971-75: QS with national contractor o 1969-71: Assistant QS with national contractor
Experience
- Dispute Board Chairman or Member on 34 occasions – Eastern and Western Europe; East and Southern Africa; East Asia and Pacific; Middle East – civil works and infrastructure works; railways; power plant; consultancy agreement
- Adjudicator on about 20 occasions over 27 years – building; civil; railways; M&E; consultancy agreement
- Sole Arbitrator on one occasion (UK) and ICC Co-Arbitrator (Middle East) on one occasion
- Expert Determination on one occasion – power station; Middle East
- Mediator on two occasions – building (UK) and mining (West Africa)
- Preparation of claims and defences to claims – building and civil
Affiliations/Memberships
- FIDIC Standing Group for Dispute Avoidance and Adjudication
- ICC UK
- ICC Institute of World Business Law
- Dispute Resolution Board Foundation
- Adjudication Society
- Society of Construction Law
- London Court of International Arbitration
- Energy Arbitration Club
- Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators
Panel listings
- FIDIC Certified Adjudicator
- ICE’s Lists of Dispute Resolvers: Dispute Board Members/Adjudicators/Arbitrators/Mediators/Conciliators
- Resolex Mediators
Qualifications, jurisdiction and discipline
- • FIDIC Certified Adjudicator
- Chartered Arbitrator – FCIArb; Carb
- Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers – FICE – Patron of the UK’s Western Counties Branch
- Fellow of the Institution of Chartered Surveyors – FRICS
- Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors – FCInstCES
- Fellow of the Controls and Skills Authority – FCaSA – formerly the Association of Cost Engineers
- Associate Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers – AFIChemE – by invitation
