Kenneth W Chapman

BSc CEng MICE

Ken is Principal Consultant – Engineering and Construction of Harris Consulting International

Summary

With more than 35 years senior management experience on engineering and construction contracts, Ken Chapman is ideally equipped to provide effective in-depth investigation/analysis and sound contractual advice to industry clients on pre and post contract matters, both in the United Kingdom and overseas.

The analysis and advice offered are based upon expertise developed during:

  • work carried out over the last 10 years whilst providing claims consultancy services to employer and contractor clients – preparing and responding to submissions on a wide range of contractual and technical matters, and managing the resolution of such matters if they developed into a dispute
  • work carried out in the previous 20 years when Ken ran his own businesses – providing commercial, construction management, and design services to clients on a consultancy basis, and executing civil engineering and construction contracts as a sole proprietor,
  • work carried out whilst project managing contracts for major contractors in the UK and overseas and whilst employed by design consultants during the first 12 years of his career.

Ken is accustomed to high-value, complex, multi-discipline works, carried out in a safety critical environment, and procured on a traditional or EPC basis.  He has a broad understanding of contracts and contract law and extensive experience of the hands-on management of production on site. These attributes underpin his key skills (in contract analysis and interpretation, planning, programming, estimating and cost analysis) when analysing and evaluating client problems such as major compensation event/variation assessments, extensions of time, complex dispute issues and insurance claims.

Ken has experience of most of the major forms of contract and extensive experience of the administration of the NEC suite of contracts (with particular reference to Option A ‘lump sum’ design and build contracts, Option C ‘target’ contracts, and the management of the programme and its use in compensation event assessments); also considerable experience of the interpretation of the NEC contract in adjudication.