FIDIC Adjudicator Details
International Client Manager
Barry Tozer
Country of residence: Australia
Citizenship: Australian
www.barryatozer.com
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Countries with experience
Other countries with experience:
Global regions
- Pacific
Languages spoken
- English
Construction contract experience
- Construction Contract, MDB Harmonised Ed, June 2010
Consultancy contract experience
- Not applicable - none of the above
Specialist contract experience
- Not applicable - none of the above
CV - Services offered
- Arbitration
- Adjudication
- Mediation
- Conciliation
- Facilitator
- Technical expert
- Contract Expert/specialist
- Independent expert
- Expert witness
Technical expertise
- Airports - air-side
- Airports - terminals and support
- Airports - other
- Building - domestic
- Building - commercial
- Building services - Heating/Ventilation/Air Conditioning
- Building services - lighting/electrical
- Building services - water
- Building services - other
- 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
- Coastal engineering
- Construction law
- Cost engineering (QS)
- Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
- Environmental issues
- Geotechnics and foundations
- Energy & Power - Hydro Systems
- Energy & Power - Wind Wave & Tidal Systems
- Energy & Power - Natural gas and LNG Facilities
- Infrastructure, Railways, Bridges
- Marine and ports
- Metro railway and stations
- Road and highways - bridges and car parks
- Road and highways - other
- Rail - Signalling and Communications
- Rail - Track Engineering and Construction
- Rail - other
- Rock Anchors & grouting Tunnels and Shafts
- Telecommunications
- Waste Disposal - Solid Waste Management
- Wast
-
Claims and variations
- Extension of time
- Project scheduling
- Defects
- Construction accidents
- Technical issues
Short summary experiences
·Appointment as Member of Dispute Board on ten contracts (2006-2021) in Australia, three as Chairman, one as Sole DB; three overseas appointments as sole DAB in Papua New Guinea and Kiribati (2014-2021);_x000D_Recent appointments as Expert Witness on construction quantum (2017-2021) including_x000D_•Provide quantum evidence in international arbitration on estimated costs of design, supply and installation of LNG jetty structure in WA in a dispute between consortium members. $600 million dispute._x000D_•Provide quantum evidence in international arbitration on costs of variations and termination between principal contractor and supply and erection subcontractor on iron ore terminal infrastructure in WA. $100 million dispute._x000D_•Provide quantum evidence in expert determination proceedings regarding delay and disruption costs on coal mine site infrastructure development in Queensland between mine owner and contractor. $5 million dispute._x000D_·Appointed by agreement of the parties to undertake an Expert Determination on more than thirty occasions (1992-2021);_x000D_·Appointed as Arbitrator by parties, ACDC, ADC or IAMA nomination on twenty-six occasions (1992-2019) including one international arbitration (2005), one three-person tribunal (2011-4);_x000D_·Appointed as NSW District Court Referee on six occasions (1995-2008);_x000D_·Appointed as NSW Supreme Court Referee on nine occasions (2002-2015);_x000D_·Appointed as Victorian Supreme Court Assessor and Special Referee (2016-7)_x000D_·Nominated as an Adjudicator under Security of Payment legislation: BCISOPA, NSW, twenty-eight determinations (2003-2018), ACT and BCIPA, BIF Act, Queensland, twenty-seven decisions (2013-2021);_x000D_·Appointed as Independent Valuer on more than thirty-eight GC21 Contracts (2003¬2021); _x000D_. Appointed as Facilitator on several occasions to conduct engineering conclaves and facilitate the production of joint expert reports for litigation or arbitration. Acted a
Position and experience
Acredited mediator:
No
Acredited arbitrator: Yes
Employment status:
Present position: Consulting Construction Engineer
Previous positions: Cost engineer and estimator, Project engineer, Site engineer, Part-time lecturer , Probity advisor
Acredited arbitrator: Yes
Employment status:
Present position: Consulting Construction Engineer
Previous positions: Cost engineer and estimator, Project engineer, Site engineer, Part-time lecturer , Probity advisor
Experience
- Dispute Board member and chairman
- Expert witness on construction cost and schedules
- Expert determiner
- Arbitrator
- Adjudicator
- Facilitator
- Mediator
- Lecturer and trainer
Affiliations/Memberships
- Fellow
- Institution of Engineers
- Australia
- Life Member
- Institution of Civil Engineers (London)
- Life Member
- American Society of Civil Engineers (New York)
- Member
- AACE International
- Fellow
- Resolution Institute
- Australia
- Fellow
- Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- DB Leader
- Dispute Resolution Board Foundation (Region 3)
Qualifications, jurisdiction and discipline
- Master of Engineering (Adelaide)
- Master of Construction Law (Melbourne)
- Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration (UNSW)
- Registered Adjudicator
- Queensland
- FIDIC Certified Adjudicator
