Personal bio
Gerry Brannigan is Partner and Head of Forensic Technical Services (FTS) at HKA. Gerry leads a global team of engineering, architecture, scientific, and technical specialists providing expert witness and expert advisory services. Since 2012, Gerry has been appointed more than 50 times as an expert witness in building services engineering (MEP) and has acted as the lead expert in multi-disciplinary construction disputes. He has given oral evidence at arbitrations, adjudications and dispute adjudication boards. In addition, he has assisted at mediations and provided a deposition in the USA. Gerry’s appointments have concerned disputes in different jurisdictions including; Scotland, England, Ireland, Norway, UAE, Qatar, Australia and USA Federal Court. As well as undertaking individual building services / MEP expert witness appointments, Gerry has experience of managing and coordinating multi-disciplinary expert teams on complex construction disputes. He has opined on liability, design responsibility, client scope, performance issues, risk, professional responsibility, design duties, contractor duties, systems failures and contributed to the assessment of delay factors. Gerry is listed in Who’s Who Legal as an expert witness in Construction and Consulting. WWL says: Gerry “delivers genuine independence and objectivity” and “is steadfast in his opinions once they have been reached.” He “earns plaudits for his ability on complex construction disputes and his impressive work as an expert witness in high-value proceedings”.