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By the mid-1970’s, Roger had worked for various contractors in the UK in planning & programming roles reaching the level of Planning Manager. In 1976 he moved overseas, initially joining the Dutch contracting and engineering company, Ballast Nedam, and working in Saudi Arabia for 6 years; followed by a further 6 year period in Greece with a large construction and engineering company, Consolidated Contracting Company (‘CCC’) taking up the role of Head of Project Control. Roger returned to UK in 1988 to work for Lehrer McGovern Bovis and was primarily involved with the planning & programming of the first phase and early construction works at Canary Wharf in London’s Docklands.
In 1991, Roger joined Gardiner & Theobald Fairway who provide dispute resolution services. Roger received many appointments as an Expert Witness and was appointed a director in 1996. In 1999 he joined the Hill International organisation in their newly-opened London office, again becoming a Director and continued to receive Expert Witness and adjudication appointments.
In March 2001, he formed Gibson Consulting Limited to provide planning, programming and dispute resolution services to parties involved in construction and engineering disputes; with the emphasis on extension of time entitlements, delay & disruption, and associated loss and expense costs. Despite a serious illness in late 2001, Roger is now recovered and has subsequently received many Expert Witness and adjudication appointments.
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| Qualifications/Memberships |
Member of The Academy of Experts
Fellow of the Planning Engineers Organisation
Member of The Association of Project Managers
Member of the Project Management Institute
Member of the Association of Cost Engineers
Member of The Society of Construction Law
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| Highlights
Of Experience |
Roger Gibson has over forty years experience in the planning and programming of all types of building, civil engineering and process engineering projects. He has worked in the United Kingdom, a number of countries in mainland Europe, Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries. His active project experience includes office, hospital and commercial developments; heavy civil works, process & petrochemical, and the Saudi Arabia to Bahrain causeway. His duties and responsibilities included the preparation of all levels of project programmes together with their associated method statements; progress monitoring and advising senior management of recommendations for recovery of any programme delays. During his career overseas, Roger was responsible for managing the planning departments of major international companies.
Roger has considerable experience of claims avoidance and dispute resolution services involving construction and engineering projects. He has provided both written Expert evidence and oral testimony in Court and before Arbitration tribunals.
His speciality is evaluating delay and extension of time claims, involving concurrent delays, mitigation and disruption, through detailed analysis of programmes and other documents. Use of critical path analysis techniques as appropriate. He has a proven ability to communicate complex issues through simple easily understood graphics, illustrations and exhibits; and the linkage to time related costs.
His first book, “Construction Delays: Extensions of Time and Prolongation Claims”, was published by Taylor & Francis in April 2008. He is currently working on his second book, “Construction Delays: Disruption and Productivity”, which is due to be published in early 2009.
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| Dispute
Resolution Experience |
Roger Gibson has been appointed as an expert on time related issues in numerous disputes up to more than £100M in value, carrying out forensic planning and delay analysis studies, for Contracting and Employer organisations. The projects include a major hospital, new student accommodation, bioscience and other laboratory facilities, heavy civil and tunnelling projects and a commercial development in Dublin. Past appointments overseas have included a new international airport in the Middle East, a large military airbase in Bahrain, an LNG jetty in Brunei and a new cement manufacturing complex in Saudi Arabia.
He has testified many times as an Expert Witness before Arbitration tribunals and in the Technology & Construction Court, including being the only Planning Expert who testified in the ‘landmark’ case of Royal Brompton Hospital NHS Trust v Frederick A Hammond & Ors [2000] EWHC Technology 39.
Roger Gibson is a practising Adjudicator, and continues to receive appointments by adjudicator nominating bodies such as The Technology and Construction Solicitors Association and Construction Industry Council. |
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