FIDIC Adjudicator Details
International Client Manager
Ciaran Fahy
Country of residence: Ireland
Citizenship: Irish
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Countries with experience
Other countries with experience:
Global regions
- East Europe
- Sub Sahara Africa
Languages spoken
- English
- French
Construction contract experience
- Construction Contract, 1st Ed (1999 Red Book)
- 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
- Red Book 4th Edition
- Orange Book 1st Edition
CV - Services offered
- Arbitration
- Adjudication
- Mediation
- Conciliation
Technical expertise
- Airports - terminals and support
- Building - commercial
- Building - industrial
- Building services - Heating/Ventilation/Air Conditioning
- Building services - lighting/electrical
- 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 - other
- Construction law
- Cost engineering (QS)
- Energy & Power - other
- Road and highways - Planning, Layout and Design
- Road and highways - other
- 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
- Construction accidents
Short summary experiences
The bulk of my work since 2010 has been acting as conciliator in construction contracts in Ireland – mainly using the Irish government form of contract (PWC). This leads to a binding, but not final, recommendation, subject to the lodgement of a bond. In the past 2 years the practice has been to appoint a standing conciliator to the larger projects and I have been involved in a number of these; I am currently engaged on 7 projects including the €900 million New Children's Hospital._x000D_
Over the years I have acted as arbitrator in some 20 disputes. These were generally relatively small, less than €1m, and not all of them were construction._x000D_
I have acted as mediator in some 25 disputes some of which were multi-party disputes. I have generally acted as sole mediator but I have acted as co-mediator. The bulk of the disputes were construction and, while some were small matters, several arranged in value between €5m and €10m while one was approximately €15m._x000D_
I have acted as expert on some 10 disputes. Many of these were small 3 of these, construction related, were in the range €5m to €10m._x000D_
I have acted as adjudicator in some 10 disputes. 3 of them were in relation to the Irish single electricity market in order to resolve disputes arising from the capacity market option. The issues related to points of principle/interpretation rather than monetary disputes; work was done by three-person panel and in each case I chaired the panel.
Position and experience
Acredited mediator:
Yes
Acredited arbitrator: Yes
Employment status:
Present position: N/A
Previous positions: Full-time 3rd party neutral since 2009, 1985 – 2006 in private practice in own name. Extensive experience as expert witness and civil engineering work, 1971 – 1985 worked as engineer in contracting, local authorities and consultancy in including 2 years in France/Belgium., , , , , , ,
Acredited arbitrator: Yes
Employment status:
Present position: N/A
Previous positions: Full-time 3rd party neutral since 2009, 1985 – 2006 in private practice in own name. Extensive experience as expert witness and civil engineering work, 1971 – 1985 worked as engineer in contracting, local authorities and consultancy in including 2 years in France/Belgium., , , , , , ,
Experience
- Arbitrator in some 20 disputes
- Conciliator in approximately 50 disputes
- Mediator in some 25 disputes
- Expert determination
- as expert
- in approximately 10 dispute
- Adjudicator in approximately 10 dispute
- Standing Conciliator currently on 7 contracts
Affiliations/Memberships
- Chair of Engineers Ireland Dispute Board 2009 – 2015
- Chair CIArb Irish Branch 2008 – 2009
- ICC Commission on Arbitration since 2010
- CIArb Practice and Standards Committee since 2015
- Chair of Engineers Ireland Ethics Board 2007 – 2009
Panel listings
- Panel of Arbitrators at Engineers Ireland
- Panel of Arbitrators Law Society of Ireland
- Panel of Arbitrators CIArb Irish Branch
- Panel of Arbitrators Construction Industry Federation (CIF)
- Panel of Conciliators Engineers Ireland
- Panel of Conciliators CIArb Irish Branch
- Panel of Conciliators CIF
- Panel of Adjudicators Irish Single Electricity Market
- Panel of Irish Government Adjudicators
Qualifications, jurisdiction and discipline
- BE in Civil Engineering University College Dublin (UCD) 1971
- MBA Trinity College Dublin 1975
- Diploma in Arbitration Law UCD 1999
- Diploma International Arbitration Law UCD 1999
- Chartered EngineeraAnd Fellow of Engineers Ireland
- Registered Professional Consulting Engineer
- Chartered Arbitrator and FCIArb
- Accredited Mediator with CIArb
