A civil engineer with more than 40 years’ experience.
After many years of Project and Construction Management, Christiaan is now concentrating on dispute avoidance and resolutions through the life cycle of construction projects. He is an avid 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. He is actively involved in training and awareness campaigns of the positive role that Dispute Boards can play in avoiding and resolving disputes in projects.
Christiaan is a registered International Professional Engineer (under the IEA Agreement). He is also 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 has also been accepted 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.
Christiaan has spent a substantial part of his career managing large infrastructure projects in various parts of the world. He has worked in Southern Africa for about 14 years before branching out to the international arena. He worked on projects in Libya, Middle East, Pakistan, Ethiopia as well as in Southeast Asia. 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.
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