Personal bio
Christiaan Grosskopf is a civil engineer with more than 40 years' experience. He is a registered International Professional Engineer (under the IPEA Agreement), a Fellow of the Institute of Construction Claims Practitioners (ICCP), a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and a member of the South African Institute of Civil Engineering (SAICE). He is also on the FIDIC President's List of Approved Adjudicators, South African Institute of Civil Engineer's President's List for ADR Practitioners and on the UK Adjudicators list as DB practitioner. He has spent a substantial part of his career managing large infrastructure projects in various developing countries mainly in Asia and Africa and the Middle East. He understands the challenges and potential pitfalls that the Parties face during the construction phase of projects and is currently concentrating on dispute avoidance and resolutions. After many years of Project and Construction Management, he is now concentrating on claims avoidance and resolutions through the life cycle of construction projects. He is a vivid supporter of the FIDIC suite of contracts and the approach of balanced risk distribution to assist in proper management and dispute avoidance and resolutions on projects.