Roderick Pearson

Roderick Pearson, FCIArb, MSc, BSc, PSP, is an expert in delay analysis and project controls, with extensive work related experience, 27 years of which have been gained in the Middle East. He has provided expert evidence for arbitration in both Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates. He 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 lead claims and project controls teams in the Middle East, North America and Europe. 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.

Skills

• Delay Analysis
• Project Planning and Control
• Provision of expert services for arbitration proceedings and other forms of dispute resolution. 
• Claims and project controls support for clients and contractors in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar since 2009, and in Switzerland, Germany, Australia, India, USA, Saudi Arabia and UK prior to that.  
• Chairing dispute resolution board meetings on behalf of the Engineer.   
• Claim strategy setting. 
• Administration of claims and project controls utilising the main contract forms, including JCT and FIDIC.  
• Professional research into concurrent delay and calculation of entitlement.  
• Programme audits, peer reviews and risk analysis. 
• Leader of project controls and claims teams in North America and the Middle East. 
• Planning / Scheduling software experience including P6, P3, Microsoft Projects, Asta Power Project, Deltek Acumen Fuse, and Claim Digger.
• Sector experience in Building, Civil, Infrastructure, Rail, Marine, Power, Oil and Gas, Process and Mining.
• Fully conversant with EPCIC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Installation & Commissioning)  detailed logic in the above sectors.
• Project experience includes: airports, seaports, highways, bridges, railways, water and sewage distribution, district cooling and heating, high-rise, luxury villas, hotels, hospitals, shopping malls, banks, coal mine refurbishment, paper mills, power stations, desulphurisation, oil, gas and polymer plants.

Chronology of Experience

Roderick’s considerable experience is extracted from a career in which considerable time has been spent living and working internationally in the UAE, Qatar, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland and North America.

• 2009 to present. After completing nine years of service with AECOM in the UAE, providing project controls support, analysing delay and disruption and authoring claims and claims defences, Roderick decided, in 2018, to establish his own consultancy practice in the name of Roderick Pearson and Associates. The practice has successfully provided claims support and expert services to local and international clients since then.
• 2004 until 2009, he served as a project controls and claims consultant for ALSTOM Power  in their global head offices in Baden, Switzerland, providing, during this period, expert support to the Company's lawyers for arbitration proceedings in Geneva.  He also administered project planning and claims support on multiple of the Company's international EPC turnkey power plant projects, which included Fujairah II Power and Desalination Plant, which has a capacity of 2,000 MW of net power and 130 million gallons per day of net water; also power plant projects in Europe, India and Australia.
• 1999 to 2004, he was responsible for Project Controls for ABB's US Turbine and Generator Group, based in Richmond Virginia, and then, after ABB’s merger with them, for ALSTOM Power. During this time Roderick was responsible for the in-country project planning and control function of 5,000 MW of EPC power plant construction at new plants across the U.S.A. Leading a team of office based project planning engineers and site based project schedulers, he ensured all required delay analysis and reporting was performed to support the company's several independent legal entities who were representing the Company in delay and performance related litigation proceedings. 
• 1993 until 1998 he served as Consortium Planning Manager for Klockner-Ina Gmbh on their EPC plant project for a PVC plant in southern Iran and later a large paper and board mill in Mazandaran, northern Iran. He lead teams of local planners on both these assignments. 
• 1991 through 1993, Roderick was commissioning planning engineer for ENRON Power Construction, on the Teesside Power Plant project. This project was for an 1,875 MW gas fired combined cycle, cogeneration, power plant, the largest such plant in the world at that time and still the largest ever built in Europe.
• 1981 until 1990, Roderick served in Saudi Arabia as a project manager, project engineer, site engineer and planning engineer on building and civil engineering projects, including the Holiday Inn in Jeddah, Saudi British bank projects in Jeddah, Riyadh and Buraidah, King Fahad Hospital in Jeddah and the Swiss Consulate, also in Jeddah.
• 1978, until 1981, after graduating he was employed as a junior planning engineer, cost and productivity controller by John Laing Construction, on several major projects in North West England, including large bus and truck testing centre for British Leyland, in Leyland, Lancashire, before taking up a position in Saudi Arabia through John Laing International.

Education and Professional Certifications

Roderick is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, he holds a Bachelor’s degree in Construction Engineering and a Master’s degree in Construction Law and Dispute Resolution. Other professional certifications obtained include AACEI's Planning and Scheduling Professional ("PSP").