MA CEng FICE FCIArb
Chartered Arbitrator. Conciliator, Mediator and Adjudicator
Construction Consultant
Neville Tait has over 40 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, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
and a Chartered Arbitrator.
He set up his own practice, J N Tait Associates, at the end of 1994
and specialises in arbitration, adjudication, mediation and the management
of construction disputes including other alternative dispute resolution
procedures. 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 565 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, the Royal Institution of British Architects and the
Chartered Institute of Building.
He is a practising Adjudicator having being appointed as such on
almost 100 occasions since 1988 in construction adjudication and is included in the
Panels of Adjudicators of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Chartered
Institute of Arbitrators, the Royal Institution of British Architects, the
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, the Chartered Institute of
Building, the Association of Independent Construction Adjudicators, the
Construction Industry Council and the Construction Confederation.
He has also trained in various ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution)
techniques including Mediation and is included in the Institution of Civil
Engineers’ list of Mediators & Conciliators, the Institution of Civil
Engineer’s list of Dispute Board Members, the Chartered Institute of
Building’s list of Mediators, the Construction Conciliation Group’s list of
Conciliators and RESOLEX’s list of Construction Mediators. He has acted as
Mediator/Conciliator on nine occasions and as Independent Expert on five
occasions.
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