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Associate Director Mark Blackmore discusses the common types of contra charge used in the construction industry: set-off, counterclaims and abatement.

We are delighted to release our Annual Report and Accounts for 2022. 

Driver Trett UK are delighted to launch their Spring Seminar Series, addressing some of the common issues encountered with the NEC4 form.

Ben Chamberlain, and Rob Foster, discuss the ambiguities in the statutory fire safety Building Regulations Part B, and the practical guidance of Appro...

In this article John Mullen outlines which management failures most commonly lead to problems that can end in claims, dispute and increased costs. See...

Delay Expert Andrew Agathangelou, shares his insight on writing an expert report to assist the adjudicator or tribunal, and shares a first-hand exampl...

Driver Trett COO and Quantum Expert, Tom Comerford, explores ways in which a party appointed expert can provide assistance (or not) to a court or trib...

Diales Associate Director, Rob Gray, discusses how we designed demountable seating to transform the London Stadium into a Premier League football grou...

Diales delay expert, David Wileman, reflects on his long career as a planner, the changing technologies of the industry, and how he sees the future of...

Writing for the Driver Trett Digest, Hamish Lal, Partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, discusses the '1782 disclosure' and how it was used in...

Technical Experts Hooman Baghi and Stuart Holdsworth consider the use of technology in the dispute resolution arena, encompassing AI, virtual and augm...

Get to know our new Director for Canada, Michelle McMillan.

Here at Driver, we are always considering the best way to meet our clients’ needs. Reflecting on this, our CEO, Mark Wheeler, has collected his though...

With experience in international property, engineering, and construction consultancies, Charlotte brings a wealth of experience to the role.

We are delighted to release the second issue of the Driver Trett Digital Digest. This issue takes a global look at the most recent trends and developm...

Ian Hall, Driver Project Services Operations Director, discusses the need for planning at the early stages of a project, and the six rules every plann...

Paul Whatley, Driver Trett Technical Director based in the Middle East, discusses the practical considerations for sectional completions.

Kjeld de Meersseman, Operations Director for the Netherlands, and Hugo-Frans Bol, Managing Director for Mainland Europe, both analyse the new ‘delay a...

Khalid Yousri, Driver Trett Director – UAE Country Manager, looks at the growing trend of contracting parties to use Expert Determination as a vehicle...

Operations Directors for Driver Trett France, Marine Maffre Maucour & Antoine Clouet, discuss recent green initiatives in energy production, and their...

Khalid Yousri has been promoted to UAE Country Manager. We took the opportunity to ask him a few questions about his new role, his career path and wha...

Click here to view the Interim Report 2022

Driver Trett CEO, Mark Wheeler, hosts our first round table session with industry peers and experts in London.

We are delighted to release our Annual Report and Accounts for 2021. Click here to read and download our final accounts.

Jon Sanderson, Country Manager for Oman, takes us through the development of Driver Trett’s service offering in the region, which has progressed along...

...and their contribution to the country’s vision 2030 plans Despite the impact of COVID-19 which resulted in the Kingdom’s borders bein...

In this article, Julian Haslam-Jones, Regional Director and UAE Country Manager, defines the role of a shadow expert, and puts forward an argument tha...

Issues have occurred in the construction of Father Christmas’s Grotto, and the strengths and weaknesses of the various issues will be reviewed. Valuat...

Since the global pandemic of covid-19, virtual hearings have allowed the wheels of dispute resolution to continue to turn, with little delay. I believ...

Construction disputes could end up in litigation from defective and vague arbitration agreements, or failed ADR procedures, and sometimes even, as a c...

Mustafa Abdulsalam, BSc Eng. PMP®, PMI-SP®, Senior Consultant in Kuwait, builds upon our earlier article of the same name in this feature, as he takes...

Daniel Morris, Technical Director in Qatar, considers the challenges faced by the State to deliver on its ambitious plans to host the FIFA World Cup 2...

New office in Seoul, South Korea, headed by Mark Murphy and Jung-Guk Lee, the office will provide our suite of services across key industry sectors, i...

Andrew Miller, Driver Trett Associate Director, discusses the reasonableness of the Plan, and the role of the quantum expert in the dispute resolution...

Driver Trett were Highly Commended in the Consultant of the Year category at the Construction Innovation Awards 2021.

Taking the form of a mock adjudication between a Client and a Contractor involved in an urban realm scheme under an NEC4 contract, the scenario will d...

La majorité des Contract Managers le savent, sur un marché à forts enjeux, il est primordial d’aligner les intérêts des sous-traitants avec ceux de l’...

Ils ont discuté des spécificités du métier de consultant en contract management et de la contribution du Contract Manager externe dans la gestion de l...

Get to know the newly promoted Country Director for Oman, Jonathan Sanderson.

Nous proposons ici de nourrir une réflexion basée sur les apports théoriques et empiriques des deux prix Nobel déconomie 2016 - Oliver Hart et Bengt H...

Alasdair Snadden, Managing Director for Asia Pacific, explores the need for diversity in the construction industry, and the strength of a team over th...

Ben Bury, Partner at HFW, discusses some of the recent events that have affected Hong Kong over the last 18 months, and considers how they may have de...

Driver Group Plc's Interim Report 2021

King Wah Liew, Country Director of Malaysia, discusses the typical challenges faced by contractors in the country during the covid-19 pandemic; and th...

Is mediation a fishing trip or a common sense solution? We are delighted to announce the next of our UK webinar sessions for 2021. This webinar wil...

Operations Manager Jung-guk Lee explores Claims under Contract; Claims for damages; and how to advance hire value claims for plants in the event of de...

Get to know the newly promoted Country Director for Australia, Mukul Soul. In this article, Mukul discusses his career path to date and considers some...

Regional Director for Asia Pacific, Ashlea Read, discusses how the use of drones in construction sites is increasing year on year, and how the benefit...

This short article focusses on the retrospective quantification of acceleration claims, written by Principle Quantum Expert, John Mullen.

Regional Head of Diales APAC, and Quantum and Delay Expert, Garth McComb, shares insight into what sets apart a Diales Expert, and some of his experie...

Joe Durkin, Investment Manager at LCM Finance, gives insight into how contractors are increasingly turning to litigation funding across the Middle Eas...

Asia Pacific Managing Director, Alasdair Snadden, and Danna Er, Partner at Eldan Law LLP, take a look at Singapore's response to the Covid-19 pandemic...

Indonesia is the world’s 16th-largest economy, and as an archipelago country, infrastructure continues to play a key part in the growth of the country...

The second in our UK Spring 2021 webinar series, this session will look at key issues arising under the NEC4 contract, with a particular focus on an e...

Senior Consultant, Angie Chai, discusses the infrastructure developments of the Greater Bay Area, China. Looking at their socio-economic impact, she t...

It is common practice for subcontracts to be placed at varying times during the course of the project. If delays occur during the currency of the proj...

This, the second in the series, covers programmes and progress reports, which show what you planned to do, what you actually did, and when.  The impor...

Our first session will look at key issues arising under the JCT suite of contracts. 

In this Q&A for the Driver Trett Digest, we catch up with Senior Vice President in New York, Simon Braithwaite. We ask how he has found starting a new...

Theo Hermantin and Antoine Clouet from our Paris office deliver this online webinar, in English, sharing their experiences on the operational and cont...

The first of a series of five articles, discussing the common inadequacies and problems with records that Driver Trett face, when producing or assessi...

In this article, Operations Director for Driver Trett in Bristol, Nicola Huxtable, discusses a case where we supported a contractor to recover losses ...

Driver Group PLC Annual Report and Accounts 2020

Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) comes in a variety of forms and fundamentally means a process of resolving a dispute other than through litigatio...

Writing for issue 20 of the Driver Trett Digest, Dr Hamish Lal, Josephine Kaiding and Léa Defranchi of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, discuss the...

Driver Trett and BDO are pleased to invite you to their free webinar on Contractual and Tax Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Kuwait.

Contractors looking to claim relief and compensation for the impact of Covid-19 have often looked at their contract provisions for Force Majeure and C...

Phil Duggan, Head of Expert Services in the Middle East, discusses his recent experiences of comparing the FIDIC 1999 Conditions to those of the 2017 ...

Driver Trett is delighted to announce the opening of a new office in Madrid, Spain, along with the hire of Operations Director, Javier Sánchez Llopes,...

Andrew Miller, Driver Trett Associate Director from our London office discusses the importance for time and cost records, when proceeding with a claim...

With first-hand experience of how contractors’ can spend significantly more than planned on labour and equipment during the course of a construction p...

Consultant Jacob Petrou, based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, discusses how European contractors can ensure oversight and management of supply and sub...

Consultant Laura Geary evaluates and compares Negotiation and Mediation, and summarises the factors to consider when deciding whether either form of A...

Webinar: Common NEC issues explained

In recognition of World Mental Health Day 2020, we asked members of our team around the world, how they have found looking after their mental health d...

We would like to wish a happy Moon Festival to all who are celebrating, and send our thanks to our clients China Gezhouba Group Co., LTD who delivered...

We have collated the questions asked from our webinar on Delay analysis methods and techniques used in UAE court litigation, and provided the answers ...

Driver Trett announces collaboration with EVRA Consulting (PTY) Ltd (EVRA), based in Johannesburg, South Africa

After a break over the Summer, and following the success of our Spring webinars, Driver Trett are pleased to announce the first event in our Autumn we...

Senior Consultant for the Netherlands, Erald Kahmann, discusses some basic principles about the preparation and management of a claim. The article is ...

What’s the rush all about? To accelerate, or not? That is the question.

New office open in Times Square, New York City - along with the hire of two new Senior Vice Presidents, who will be based there.

Driver Trett and Global Advocacy and Legal Counsel are pleased to invite you to their webinar on delay analysis methods and techniques best suited to ...

Driver Group CEO, Mark Wheeler, talks about why the journey to becoming an Expert is just as important, as being a specialist in your field.

Meet Paul Emmett Brown, a witness of fact at an arbitration hearing. The project has suffered Covid-19 related issues, or not, as the case may be... R...

David Wileman deciphers the downsides to mediation, and whether there actually are any...

Phil Duggan, Regional Head of Diales in the Middle East, discusses the impact of Covid-19 on the construction industry and its affects across the regi...

We get to know Chris Sunderland, the new Director of Business Development and Marketing for Driver Trett and Diales. We delve into his past and look t...

PAUL DARLING OBE QC from 39 Essex Chambers offers his insight as an Advocate in the first remote trial in the Technology and Construction Court - host...

Driver Trett  and Charles Russell Speechlys are pleased to invite you to their webinar on disruption claims

Our mental health, and general well-being, has taken a battering in 2020. What methods work for you in achieving positive well-being?

Driver Trett Digital Digest

This webinar looks in detail at four recent cases and explains how those involved in either paying contractors and subcontractors, or those who are is...

Michael Neill looks at common challenges encountered by contractors when dealing with change on construction projects.

Covering key topics such as jurisdictional challenges, “smash and grab” adjudications and enforcement - this webinar will be of interest to all who wo...

Kelvin Ng takes us through his career, experiences, and training enabling him to become a Diales Expert.

Driver Group announce new CEO

Kirsti Olson, Partner at Dentons UK and Middle East LLPA takes a look at why it is crucial to ensure payment and pay less notices are served correctly...

Driver Trett is delighted to announce the next in its series of webinars: Recovery of prolongation and disruption costs under JCT and NEC