Our team comprise expert witnesses with experience of being cross-examined in litigation, arbitration, adjudication and before Dispute Boards.
Disputes requiring technical expertise often involve an elaborate technical matrix of fact and opinion. Complex investigations, interrogation and interpretation of the cause and impact of various competing causes are required.
We will deliver concise reports that explain complex technical interactions in a clear and unambiguous manner.
Disciplines include:
- • Quantum
- • Delay Analysis
- • Architecture
- • Building Services
- • Civil and Structural Engineering
- • Construction and Engineering
- • Contract Administration
- • Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
- • Project Management
We are happy to provide an independent view on the merits of any potential action and of any remedial works proposed or already undertaken.
Our experts comply with a set of strict criteria:
- A minimum of 25 years’ industry experience;
- They have cross-examination experience;
- They have been trained in the expert's duties in both Litigation and Arbitration and hold third party expert witness accreditation.
Mr Sean Gibbs has over thirty years experience in quantum and contract matters on construction and engineering projects in the United Kingdom and internationally. He has been acting as a party representative in construction adjudications since 1998 and has sat as an adjudicator across the globe.
Sean holds various Fellowship with bodies including the RICS, CIARB, CIOB, CICES and Assoc Arb and BIARB. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales by the Middle Temple and has extensive experience of the GCC civil codes.
He regularly advises parties on and appears in arbitrations, adjudications, dispute boards, expert determinations and litigation.
Offices at:
NEW YORK
+1 646 535 5976
americas@hanscombintercontinental.com
HONG KONG
+852 8198 1061
asia@hanscombintercontinental.com
JOHANNESBURG
+27 12 743 6534
africa@hanscombintercontinental.com
LONDON
+44(0)20 3287 8518
eume@hanscombintercontinental.com
A TO Z OF TECHNICAL SERVICES
A
- Acoustics
- Agricultural engineering
- Agrochemicals
- Architecture
- Asbestos
- Aviation
B
- Baggage handling
- Batteries
- Biomass
- Biomass power generation
- Boilers
- Bridges
- Building automation
- Building services engineering
C
- Cargo
- CCS (carbon capture & storage)
- Chemical plants
- Chemical engineering
- Chemistry
- Civil engineering
- Civil infrastructure
- Cladding
- CCGT (combined-cycle gas turbine) power plants
- CFD (computational fluid dynamics)
- Computer forensics
- Concrete structures
- Construction management
- Construction materials – aluminium, carpets, concrete, geotextiles, glass, masonry, steel, tiling, timber
- Contaminated land
- Corrosion & coatings
- Cranes
- Cybersecurity & privacy
D
- Data centres
- AC & DC systems
- Demolition
- Desalination
- Design
- District heating systems
- Drainage
- Drilling & completion
E
- Earthworks
- Electrical engineering
- Electrical & instrumentation (E&I)
- Electrical power generation
- Electrical networks & infrastructure
- Electrical plant & equipment
- Electronics
- Elevators & escalators
- Emissions
- Energy economics
- Energy from waste
- Energy efficiency
- Energy transition
- Engine control
- Engineering management
- Environmental engineering
- Environmental audits & permitting
F
- Façades
- Facilities management
- FEED (front end engineering design)
- FEA (finite element analysis)
- Fire engineering
- Fire investigations
- Fire safety systems
- FPSOs (floating production, storage & offloading units)
- Fluidised bed combustion
- Food & drink
- Foundations
- Franchising & procurement
- Fuel cells & power electronics
- Fuel tanks
- Fuel technology
- Fuel safety
- Fuels
G
- Gantries
- Gas transmission networks
- Gas turbines
- Geology
- Geotechnical engineering
- Geothermal power
H
- Health & safety
- Heat recovery steam generators
- Heavy steelwork & structures
- Horizontal drilling
- HV (high voltage) systems
- HV (high voltage) power distribution
- HVAC (heating, ventilation & air conditioning) systems
- Hydrodynamics
- Hydrology
- Hydroelectric power generation
- Hydrogen
I
- Industrial accidents
- Industrial plant
- ICT (information & communication technologies)
- Instrumentation control & automation
J
L
- Land use
- Legionella
- LRT (light rail & metros)
- Lighting design
- LV (low voltage) systems
M
- Master planning
- Manufacturing
- Marine engineering
- Materials handling
- Masonry
- M&E (mechanical & electrical)
- Mechanical failures
- Mechanical engineering
- Mechanical plant & equipment
- MEP (mechanical, electrical & plumbing)
- Microscopy & NDT (nondestructive testing)
- Mining & minerals
- Mobile & wireless technology
N
- Naval architecture
- Networks
- Noise & vibration
- Nuclear decommissioning
- Nuclear power
O
- Offshore & onshore drilling
- Offshore pipelines
- Oil & gas transportation – onshore & offshore
- Oil & gas processing & refining
- Oil & gas decommissioning
- O&M (operations & maintenance)
- Optical technology
- Ore extraction & processing
P
- Petrochemical plants
- Petroleum engineering
- Pharmaceuticals
- Piling
- Pipeline fluid flow
- Pipelines
- Planning
- Plant failures
- Plant performance
- Pollution control
- Power generation
- Power transmission & distribution
- Pressure vessels
- Process engineering
- Process plants
- Project audits
- Project management
- Public health engineering
Q
R
- Rail systems – rolling stock, safety & operations, signalling & operations
- Refrigeration
- Renewable energy & power
- Reservoirs
S
- Security systems & CCTV
- Seismic & finite element analysis
- Solar power generation
- Stadia
- Steel production
- Steel structures
- Steelwork fabrication
- Steam turbines
- Structural engineering
- Subsea engineering
- Subsidence & instability
- Subsurface drilling & completion
- SCADA
- Sustainable drainage
- Systems integration
T
- Thermal power generation (coal, oil & gas, waste to energy)
- Tidal power
- Trams
- Transformers & electrical networks
- Tribology
- Tunnels
U
- Upstream exploration and extraction (oil & gas)
- Unexploded Ordnance
- Utility services
V
- Valves
- Vehicle manufacture
- Vetting & security clearance
- Vibration
W
- Water & wastewater treatment
- Water desalination
- Water distribution
- Water intrusion
- Water resources
- Water systems
- Water treatment
- Welding
- Wellheads
- Wind power generation (onshore & offshore) - foundations, wind turbine blades & wind turbines
- Windows
X
- X-ray/radiography/ultrasonic testing of welds and other materials
