Mr Derek Nelson

Chartered Quantity Surveyor

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A Chartered Quantity Surveyor and a Chartered Engineering Surveyor and Commercial Manager, Derek is an Accredited and Certified Expert Witness, an Accredited Mediator and Accredited Expert Determiner.  His experience covers 40 years in the construction industry.

Derek specialises in the preparation, negotiation and settlement of claims for disruption, acceleration and prolongation and in the investigation, assessment and settlement of such claims presented by others.

Derek is widely regarded as an expert who is both well qualified and highly experienced in complex construction matters. He has acted in a number of arbitrations and conciliations relating to construction, civil engineering and process engineering disputes and acted as Claim Team Manager in major disputes internationally.  He continues to provide clients with contractual advice, claims preparation and contract administration services on major contracts worldwide.

Derek is frequently retained to prepare Independent Expert Witness Reports in Construction and Engineering disputes in Litigation, Arbitration, Adjudication and Conciliation.  He is an Accredited Expert and Fellow with both the Academy of Experts and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, as well as a Certified Expert Witness through Cardiff University/Bond Solon, who has been appointed in the role of independent expert witness addressing issues in combination of delay, quantum and disruption and the interaction of the same and has testified in both court and arbitration proceedings on such matters including giving concurrent evidence. 

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TAE Accreditations

Expert Witness
Expert Determiner

Specialist Registers

Expert Determiner

Qualifications

Civil Expert Witness Certificate, Cardiff University
Member, Dispute Resolution Board Foundation
Bachelor of Science BSc Quantity Surveying (1992)
LLM (Construction Law) (1997)
Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators MCIArb (1999)
Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors MRICS (1999)
Member Singapore Institute of Arbitrators MSIArb (2001)
Member of the Association for Project Management MAPM (2002)
Fellow of the Quantity Surveying Institute FQSi (2004)
Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors FCInstCES (2004)
Post Graduate Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration PG DiplCArb (2006)
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators FCIArb (2007)
Member, Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International MAACEi (2008)
Certified Cost Professional CCP (2010)
Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute FCMI (2010)
Fellow Singapore Institute of Arbitrators FSIArb (2011)
Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors FRICS (2013)
Fellow, Academy of Experts FAE (2014)
Qualified Dispute Resolver, Academy of Experts QDR (2016)
Masters of Science, Construction Law & Dispute Resolution (Merit), King's College London MSc (2020)

Expert Witness Snapshot

Derek Nelson is a Fellow of The Academy of Experts, having acted as Expert Determiner, Adjudicator, Mediator and panel member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Business Arbitration Scheme (BAS), with extensive experience as an independent expert witness in litigation and domestic and international arbitration.

A Chartered Quantity Surveyor and a Chartered Engineering Surveyor and Commercial Manager, Derek is an Accredited and Certified Expert Witness, an Accredited Mediator and Accredited Expert Determiner. His experience covers 40 years in the construction industry.

Derek specialises in the preparation, negotiation and settlement of claims for disruption, acceleration and prolongation and in the investigation, assessment and settlement of such claims presented by others.

Derek is widely regarded as an expert who is both well qualified and highly experienced in complex construction matters. He has acted in a number of arbitrations and conciliations relating to construction, civil engineering and process engineering disputes and acted as Claim Team Manager in major disputes internationally. He continues to provide clients with contractual advice, claims preparation and contract administration services on major contracts worldwide.

Derek is frequently retained to prepare Independent Expert Witness Reports in Construction and Engineering disputes in Litigation, Arbitration, Adjudication and Conciliation. He is an Accredited Expert and Fellow with both the Academy of Experts and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, as well as a Certified Expert Witness through Cardiff University/Bond Solon, who has been appointed in the role of independent expert witness addressing issues in combination of delay, quantum and disruption and the interaction of the same and has testified in both court and arbitration proceedings on such matters including giving concurrent evidence.

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