MA CEng FICE FCIArb
Chartered Arbitrator. Conciliator, Mediator and Adjudicator
Construction Consultant
Neville Tait has over 35 years experience in the construction
industry and is a graduate of Cambridge University in science and engineering, a Fellow of
the Institution of Civil Engineers and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
He set up his own practice, J N Tait Associates, at the end of 1994 specialising
in arbitration, mediation and the management of construction disputes. He is also a
regular tutor on courses and provider of training seminars on such topics.
He commenced his career with Costain Civil Engineering in 1966 where he
worked on sewage works in London and the South Midlands and on a Major Incineration Plant
in Edmonton, north London.
In 1973 he joined William Sindall Ltd. in Cambridge as a Civil
Engineering Contracts Manager, working on many reinforced concrete and water retaining
structures, sewerage and water treatment works and sewerage schemes, road improvement
schemes and infrastructure works. He then developed an interest in the contractual aspects
of Construction and in 1984 became Head of a Department concerned with the settlement of
disputes arising from a wide range of Building and Civil Engineering Contracts and
Sub-contracts. He was made a Director in 1984.
He is a practising Arbitrator having being appointed as Arbitrator on
over 330 occasions since 1988 in construction and consumer disputes and is included in
the Panels of Arbitrators of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Chartered Institute
of Arbitrators and the Royal Institution of British Architects.
He is also trained in various ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution)
techniques and is included in the Institution of Civil Engineers’ List of
Conciliators, Independent Mediation Ltd’s panel of Mediators and is a
founder member of the Construction Contracts Mediators Group (CCMG).
Following the introduction of mandatory Adjudication into Construction
Contracts as a consequence of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996,
he is included in the panels of Adjudicators
maintained by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the Institution of Civil
Engineers, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Chartered
Institute of Building,
the Construction Industry Council and the Construction Confederation all of which are
"Adjudicator Nominating Bodies" under the Scheme for Construction Contracts,
and has been appointed as Adjudicator on over 35 occasions.
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