Roderick Pearson, an expert and experienced practitioner in delay and disruption analysis and project controls, who has prepared and provided expert evidence to support claims and claims defence at arbitration and other dispute resolution proceedings, established this firm in December of 2018.
Roderick has performed cost and schedule analysis demonstrating delay, disruption, acceleration, and performed damage and loss of productivity calculations, as-built schedule reconstruction, issue and entitlement identification during the claims development phase. He has both prepared, and defended against, a variety of claims for contractors, employers and insurance companies. He has extensive work related experience, gained in the Middle East, Europe, UK and North America. He has lead claims and project controls teams. He has technical and commercial experience of most forms of project delivery used in the building, civil works, infrastructure, marine, power, process, oil and gas sectors.
The firm and its associates provide delay, quantum, commercial and project controls support services to clients in the building, civil, power, oil and gas, petrochemical, infrastructure, transport and marine sectors.
Its core services include:
- expert services for litigation, arbitration and other forms of dispute resolution;
- claims preparation;
- claims defence;
- delay analysis (forensic planning);
- quantum support;
- commercial support;
- dispute avoidance;
- dispute resolution; and
- project planning and control.
The firm is familiar and practiced in the use of the main delay analysis techniques, both prospective and retrospective and is conversant and familiar with relevant practice guides, including those of SCL and AACEI.
The firm is experienced in the interpretation and application of most contract forms, including FIDIC, JCT and NEC.
Roderick Pearson has undertaken extensive professional research into the subject of concurrent delay and able to explain this frequently misinterpreted phenomena in simple layman's terms.
A pertinent extract from such research, which distinguishes between true and functional [or non literal] concurrency, appears to the right and this distinction is further elaborated in the
contents pages.
This broader non literal more common form of concurrent delay, which does not require competing causes of delay to start and finish at the same time, or to even overlap, is incorporated into this firm's approach to delay analysis.
The firm is familiar with the evolution of concurrent delay and how currently best to interpret it in different jurisdictions, under different contract formats, different project scenarios, and how best to accurately and correctly apportion entitlement to both time and cost.
