Personal bio
Dr Shaun Crawley is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor. He has worked in East Africa, the Far East and the Middle East with some experience in Eastern Europe and has considerable claim and dispute resolution experience on a wide variety of building, civil engineering and MEP projects. He is a practising arbitrator acting as a party appointed Co-Arbitrator for ICC and QICCA Arbitrations and as a sole Arbitrator and chairman in QICCA arbitrations. He has acted as a Tribunal appointed Expert in respect of quantum matters and the interpretation of contractual provisions in DIAC arbitrations. His appointments have been for Employers and Contractors. He is a faculty member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators UK, teaching International Arbitration, an accredited Expert with the Academy of Experts, London, a Certified Member of the UK Register of Expert Witness, and a practising Dispute Board Practitioner and Expert Determination. He has over 45 years’ experience in international construction being involved in major developments, tower blocks, residential, hotels and industrial buildings, infrastructure, high speed rail and metros, roads, tunnels, pipelines, interchanges and major MEP installations. Consequently, he has a sound knowledge of methods of delay analysis allowing for a practical and effective evaluation of extensions of time claims, associated prolongation costs and disruption claims, and assessing what constitutes a Variation as determined by the Conditions of Contract. He has experience with commercial transaction disputes arising out of standardised purchase orders. He has had articles published in the International Construction Law Reports (ICLR) and the Arab Law Quarterly (ALQ) concerning the interpretation of contracts and application for the resolution of disputes.