Mr Thomas Comerford

Chartered Surveyor

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He trained as a quantity surveyor with a national construction company, dealing with a variety of projects, and carrying out a full range of quantity surveying and commercial management functions. Subsequent to that, he joined an international contractor providing claims and commercial management services on multi-million pound projects both nationally and internationally. Tom has been a consultant for the last 14 years involved in claims, dispute, and expert witness work.

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•	residential).
•	rail (under and over–ground, light rail and tram); 
•	infrastructure (roads, utilities and hard landscaping); 
•	process (waste and sewage treatment plants); 
•	energy (generation, conversion and distribution);
 
He has been instructed on behalf of contractors, sub-contractors, engineers, insurers, local and borough councils, governors, and private individuals.

In addition to his various chartered fellowships, Tom is a Member of the Expert Witness Institute; Member of the Academy of Experts, and a Cardiff University Law School Bond Solon Certified Expert Witness.

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TAE Accreditations

  • Expert Witness

Qualifications

  • Batchelor of Science - Quantum Surveying BSc(Hons) (1991)
  • Master of Science - Construction Law MSc (1998)
  • Fellow - Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors FRICS (2004)
  • Fellow - Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors FICES (2004)
  • Fellow - Chartered Institute of Arbitrators FCIArb (2006)

Expert Witness Snapshot

Tom is a chartered quantity surveyor and chartered civil engineering surveyor with over 30 years’ experience in the construction and engineering industries. He particularly deals with the preparation and valuation of variations; claims for prolongation; project disruption and acceleration; disputed accounts; remedial works and damages.

He trained as a quantity surveyor with a national construction company, dealing with a variety of projects, and carrying out a full range of quantity surveying and commercial management functions. Subsequent to that, he joined an international contractor providing claims and commercial management services on multi-million pound projects both nationally and internationally. Tom has been a consultant for the last 14 years involved in claims, dispute, and expert witness work.

Tom has been involved with major projects in many industry sectors including:
• buildings (scientific, educational, commercial, hospital and
• residential).
• rail (under and over–ground, light rail and tram);
• infrastructure (roads, utilities and hard landscaping);
• process (waste and sewage treatment plants);
• energy (generation, conversion and distribution);

He has been instructed on behalf of contractors, sub-contractors, engineers, insurers, local and borough councils, governors, and private individuals.

In addition to his various chartered fellowships, Tom is a Member of the Expert Witness Institute; Member of the Academy of Experts, and a Cardiff University Law School Bond Solon Certified Expert Witness.

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