FIDIC Adjudicator Details
International Client Manager
Siobhan Fahey
Country of residence: Ireland
Citizenship: Irish
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Countries with experience
Other countries with experience:
Global regions
- East Asia
- East Europe
- West Europe
- Middle East
Languages spoken
- English
Construction contract experience
- Construction Contract, 1st Ed (1999 Red Book)
- Construction Contract, MDB Harmonised Ed, June 2010
- Plant & Design-Build Contract, 1st Ed (1999 Yellow Book)
Consultancy contract experience
- Not applicable - none of the above
Specialist contract experience
- Not applicable - none of the above
Other contract experience
- Extensive experience of giving expert advice and training on the use and management of
- and dispute avoidance and resolution under
- FIDIC works contracts 1999 and 2017
CV - Services offered
- Arbitration
- Adjudication
- Mediation
- Conciliation
- Facilitator
- Contract Expert/specialist
Technical expertise
- Airports - terminals and support
- Building - commercial
- Building - industrial
- Civil Engineering - Site Investigation
- Civil Engineering - Foundations and Subsidence/Settlement
- Civil Engineering - Land Drainage & Dewatering
- Civil Engineering - River & Flood Control
- Civil Engineering - Tunnelling and piling
- Civil Engineering - Retaining Walls
- Civil Engineering - Dams and reservoirs
- Civil Engineering - other
- Construction law
- Geotechnics and foundations
- Energy & Power - Fossil Fuel Systems
- Energy & Power - Hydro Systems
- Infrastructure, Railways, Bridges
- Marine and ports
- Metro railway and stations
- Road and highways - Planning, Layout and Design
- Road and highways - bridges and car parks
- Road and highways - other
- Rail - Track Engineering and Construction
- Waste Disposal - Solid Waste Management
- Water - drainage and sewerage
- Water - Water Supply
- Water - Water Treatment
- Water - Sewerage
- Water - Sewage Treatment
- Water - Flooding and Drainage
- Waste Water - Treatment and Pumping Plant
- Waster Water - treatment/distribution
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Claims and variations
- Extension of time
- Defects
- Failure investigations
- Flood damage
- Technical issues
Short summary experiences
Having acted as Chair and member of ad-hoc DABs (in Eastern Europe and the Middle East), together with acting as Sole Arbitrator (on 8 occasions) and sole Adjudicator for statutory and contractual adjudications (on 3 occasions), I am experienced in the careful and real-time management of the parties and of the dispute resolution procedures so as reach a decision or award within strict contractually specified time limits. _x000D_My experience of participating on the ad-hoc DABs referred to above has also given me an appreciation of the importance of close collaboration and a good working relationship between DAB members, particularly where the 3 members originate from different cultural and/or professional backgrounds. _x000D_Similarly, my international experience acting on DABs (together with the international experience I have gained around the world as a consultant/expert and trainer on contracts based on FIDIC contracts) means that I have developed the ability to deal positively with individuals from different cultural backgrounds and from both legal and engineering backgrounds. _x000D_My extensive experience acting as sole Conciliator (on nearly 30 occasions) of construction disputes, many of which have been high-value and high-profile, has made me a good and effective evaluative mediator of construction disputes of different complexities. The vast majority of these disputes were settled during the mediation phase of the Conciliation. Similarly, on the 2 occasions I acted as Mediator, the disputes were settled and resolved under my facilitation. _x000D_I have found that this mediation experience has stood me in very good stead in helping the parties to avoid any potential disputes, and pro-actively encouraging the parties to engage in dispute avoidance, during my work as a member of the 3-member standing DAB referred to above (for a c. 5 year project in Western Europe).
Position and experience
Acredited mediator:
Yes
Acredited arbitrator: Yes
Employment status:
Present position: 2004 – present: full-time independent dispute resolution practitioner, Dungarvan, Ireland
Previous positions: 1999 – 2004: in-house Contracts Advisor, the Railway Procurement Agency (formerly C.I.E.), Dublin, Ireland, 1999: contracts consultant, Staveley & Partners, Dublin, Ireland, 1998 – 1999: contracts consultant, James R. Knowles Ltd., Hong Kong, 1995 – 1998: claims & disputes resident engineer, Mott MacDonald Ltd., Hong Kong, 1993 – 1995: section engineer and project manager, Mouchel Asia Ltd., Hong Kong, 1989 – 1993: design engineer, L.G. Mouchel & Partners Ltd., Bath, UK, , , ,
Acredited arbitrator: Yes
Employment status:
Present position: 2004 – present: full-time independent dispute resolution practitioner, Dungarvan, Ireland
Previous positions: 1999 – 2004: in-house Contracts Advisor, the Railway Procurement Agency (formerly C.I.E.), Dublin, Ireland, 1999: contracts consultant, Staveley & Partners, Dublin, Ireland, 1998 – 1999: contracts consultant, James R. Knowles Ltd., Hong Kong, 1995 – 1998: claims & disputes resident engineer, Mott MacDonald Ltd., Hong Kong, 1993 – 1995: section engineer and project manager, Mouchel Asia Ltd., Hong Kong, 1989 – 1993: design engineer, L.G. Mouchel & Partners Ltd., Bath, UK, , , ,
Experience
- Chair of 3-member ad-hoc DAB for highways dispute
- Eastern Europe
- Member of 3-member ad-hoc DAB for airport construction dispute
- Middle East
- Member of 3-member ad-hoc DAB for second airport construction disput
- Middle East
- Member of 3-member standing DAB for building construction project
- Western Europe
- Sole Conciliator on 28 civil engineering and building disputes
- Ireland
- Sole Arbitrator on 8 civil engineering and building disputes
- Ireland
- Sole Adjudicator for adjudication of civil engineering dispute
- Ireland
- Sole Adjudicator on 2 occasions for statutory adjudication of building disputes
- Ireland
- Sole Mediator of 5-party building construction dispute
- Ireland
- Sole Mediator of airport construction dispute
- Ireland
Affiliations/Memberships
- Chartered Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers UK since 1996
- Chartered Member of Engineers Ireland since 2006
- Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators since 2007
- Chartered Arbitrator with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators since 009
- Registered Consulting Engineer with the Association of Consulting Engineers of Ireland since 2009
- Professional Member of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation since 2015
- Arbitrator of the Society of Construction Arbitrators 2019
- Member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR since 2018
Panel listings
- FIDIC President’s List of Approved Dispute Adjudicators
- Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Panel of Arbitrators
- Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Irish Branch) Panel of Adjudicators
- Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Irish Branch) Panel of Mediators
- Chair of the Dispute Resolution Board of Engineers Ireland
- Engineers Ireland Panel of Arbitrators
- Engineers Ireland Panel of Adjudicators
- Engineers Ireland Panel of Conciliators
- Law Society of Ireland Panel of Arbitrators
Qualifications, jurisdiction and discipline
- BA
- BAI (Hons) Civil/Structural Engineering
- Trinity College Dublin 1989
- LLB (Hons) Bachelor of Laws
- University of Wolverhampton 1997
- Postgraduate Diploma in Arbitration
- College of Estate Management Reading 2000
- Accredited Mediator with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators 2011
- FIDIC International Accredited Trainer: Module 1 - 2012
- FIDIC International Accredited Trainer: Module 2 - 2013
- CIArb Accredited Adjudicator (Republic of Ireland) 2014
- FIDIC President’s List Adjudicator 2016
