Expert Witness Snapshot

Mr Crane is an award winning, and accredited, testified construction expert witness specialising in delay, disruption, and / or programming matters.

He has 20 years\' experience, of which he has acted as an independent expert witness on several major projects; has given expert testimony to Queen\'s counsel whereby the matter settled entirely in favour of his assessment and has prepared independent forensic analysis for use in mediation, adjudication and arbitration during the past decade.

Lance has experience of major projects including commercial, residential, oil and gas, infrastructure, land reclamation, marine, rail, and aviation. He has worked throughout the UK and internationally in the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, the Far East, and Australia.

Prior to his experience in alternative dispute resolution, Lance has gained valuable experience with top UK contractors in roles as live project bid management, site access control coordinator, and project planning; whereby he was promoted to lead planner on Europe\'s largest project (approximately £14 billion), as well as gaining valuable experience in the financial sector whereby he learned the importance of project controls and management principles.

Lance is a chartered construction professional, an accredited expert witness via the Academy of Experts, and a fully Accredited expert witness via the RICS. He is highly technical with all forms of programming software and delay analysis methodologies; however, he ensures his opinion is predominantly derived from fact and common sense.

Lance is educated to Masters degree level and is a fully accredited member of the CIOB and the CIArb. Furthermore, he has received relevant training from the Academy of experts, the RICS, the CIArb and advanced level P6 Planning software. He has expert user working knowledge of Primavera P6 planning, Asta PowerProject, MS Project, and Tilos planning softwares.