Contract Services Limited. PAUL CULLINAN - Director MSc (Lon), BSc (Hons), MRICS, MCInstCES, FCIArb KEY CAPABILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS

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1 Contract Services Limited PAUL CULLINAN - Director MSc (Lon), BSc (Hons), MRICS, MCInstCES, FCIArb KEY CAPABILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS Chartered Quantity Surveyor with 32 years experience construction with major engineering and building projects in the UK, Europe, US, Asia, Africa and Australia, including highways, major dam, offshore wind, gas plant, water treatment, rail infrastructure and metro projects as well as large scale commercial and hotel developments and a teaching hospital. Experienced in commercial management, the role of expert witness and dispute resolution through litigation, arbitration, adjudication and other ADR techniques. Technical strengths and capabilities based upon extensive experience of World class major projects, coupled with legal knowledge gained by masters degree in Construction Law and Arbitration at King s College, London. The course covers, in depth, all aspects of international construction dispute resolution. Contracts and dispute resolution writer for technical publications, Tunnels & Tunnelling International and Tunnelling Journal. EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS Chartered Quantity Surveyor MSc Construction Law and Arbitration, King s College, London, 2002 With merit. Winner of the Bikerdike Allen Prize for best 1 st year student Chartered Institute of Arbitrators President s Prize for best award writing paper. BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying, Trent University, Nottingham, 1984 Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Member of the Chartered Institute of Civil Engineering Surveyors Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

2 Member of the Society of Construction Law Member of the Adjudication Society Member of King s College Construction Law Association Attended course Institute of Civil Engineers Adjudication: Preparation For The ICE List Of Adjudicators DETAILED CAREER HISTORY 2008 Present NEXUS CONTRACT SERVICES LIMITED Founding director of dispute resolution consultancy Contract Services. Assignments: Claim preparation defects claim on gas plant in west Africa for US oil & gas major. Claims and adjudication preparation on major hydro project in South Africa. Party representative of curtain walling sub contractor in major arbitration against national building contractor. Contract and dispute advice to French specialist contractor, water treatment facility in Algeria Various other adjudications and claim preparation assignments CHAUCER COMMERCIAL Managing Consultant for an established firm of contract and dispute specialists, part of the Chaucer Group Limited, project management and business consultants to a wide range of business sectors with their roots in the construction and oil & gas industries. Assignments : Defending claims on behalf of Houston based oil & gas major against claims from contractor on gas plant project in west Africa. Defending multi m counter claim for Dutch fabrication contractor in respect of offshore windfarm. Submission of time and money claims for French water treatment contractor for World Bank funded project in Tanzania. In country negotiations with Employer and World Bank representatives reaching settlement agreement in respect of claims. Claim preparation in anticipation of arbitration for Dutch curtain wall cladding subcontractor against UK national contractor. Continuing advice to design and build contractor on large office development in Birmingham in the face of significant delays and potential multi m liquidated damages. Defending adjudication for same client against steelwork subcontractor. Page 2 of 6

3 Claim for main contractor for new Mercedes dealership. Advice to Dutch offshore wind turbine mast fabricator in defending claim against them for alleged defective paint coatings to be repaired insitu offshore. Providing support to Irish contractor in 10m arbitration on a main drainage project including preparation for and attendance at the arbitration hearing. Adjudication steelwork sub contractor against main contractor ASTER CONSULTANTS LIMITED Director of consultancy practice specialising in construction dispute resolution and provision of expert witness services Management of a range of disputes in the UK including drafting claims, submissions for UK statutory adjudication and arbitration: Arbitration, pipework insulation contractor against mechanical services contractor. Arbitration, quantum matters, property developer against body providing insurance for new built properties. Claim for defective works, property developer against wood flooring contractor. Claim then adjudication main contractor against groundworks subcontractor. Adjudication electrical subcontractor against main contractor. Defence against set off claim for curtain walling subcontractor against main contractor (Ireland). Advice to PFI contractor on claims for extension of time to protect against potential major liquidated damages. Defending claim PFI contractor against scaffolding subcontractor Acting as expert witness in two arbitrations on major civil engineering projects in Ireland. Advice and management of two smaller scale refurbishment projects, one in UK and one in Ireland. Individual assignments via various contractors and consultants as follows: FRANKLIN + ANDREWS (Member firm of Mott MacDonald Group) Advice management and support of contractual and legal aspects of construction claims. Client legal representative by direct access in arbitration proceedings regarding construction equipment on a road refurbishment project. Appointment as quantum expert witness, dispute regarding highways project in Caribbean. Management of (UK) statutory adjudications acting for both referring and defending parties. Preparation for Page 3 of 6

4 court proceedings defending arbitration appeal on point of law. Drafting and vetting contract agreements bonds and warranties, general in house advice on contractual and legal issues BABTIE GROUP LTD Thameslink 2000, London, UK Procurement review of this major rail infrastructure project commissioned by the UK Strategic Rail Authority. Forensic investigation into the substantial increase in predicted cost of implementation, liaising with Railtrack staff and preparing report. Responsibilities centred on the rail systems sections of the project MOUCHEL CONSULTING LTD M25 Improvements Junction 7 8, Surrey, UK Senior Consultant drafting Claimant s expert witness reports in preparation for multimillion pound arbitration for major highways upgrade scheme. Arbitration settled after exchange of expert s reports AOKI: SOLETANCHE JV Jubilee Line Extension Contract 103, London, UK Senior Consultant for Japanese: French joint venture on major tunnelling project in central London. Preparation and negotiation at senior level of cost, prolongation and acceleration claims, preparation of Engineer s Decision submissions and other contentious Final Account issues. Eventually negotiated settlement to Joint Ventures satisfaction. Particular responsibility for claims on station and running tunnels CGIC JV (Sponsor company Ed. Züblin A.G., Duisburg, Germany) Xiaolangdi Multi Purpose Dam Project, Henan Province, P.R. China FIDIC Contract Senior Contracts Administrator Management of financial, contractual and measurement aspects of hydro engineering works including open and tunnels excavation and rock support, large scale concrete hydro structures, drilling & grouting works and geological instrumentation. Administration of Chinese and expatriate subcontractors and liaison with client Engineer s Representative. Special responsibility for all downstream areas of the project, involvement in some claims aspects LAING MANAGEMENT LTD Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Fulham, London Management Contract Senior Quantity Surveyor, responsible in earlier stages of project for preliminaries packages and design cost advice on Staff Residence and Mental Health Unit, two separate buildings within the hospital project. Later involved in all aspects of these two packages through to final account Page 4 of 6

5 including control of subcontractors, liaison with client consultants and adjudication of subcontractors claims D.G. JONES & PARTNERS PTY LTD, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA New Sydney Futures Exchange New Nikko Hotel, Sydney Quantity Surveyor working on a variety of projects in and around Sydney then seconded to Concrete Constructions Pty. Ltd. on the above two projects performing management of subcontract packages on former and budget monitoring against guaranteed maximum price on the latter LAING MANAGEMENT CONTRACTING LTD Embankment Place Office Development, London Management Contract Special responsibility for Phase I engineering parcels on this air rights building above Charing Cross rail station in central London. Involved in the very early stages of this project developing cost monitoring and other project systems. London Bridge City Office Development, London Construction Management Graduate Quantity Surveyor involved in various packages with special responsibility for development of the residential block refurbishment of 19 th century warehousing into luxury apartments UNITED KINGDOM ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY Sellafield Nuclear Reprocessing Plant, Cumbria, UK Industrial training year, measure and valuation of construction and process plant works on various projects within the Sellafield complex. PUBLICATIONS King s College, London Chinese Arbitration As A Forum For The Settlement Of International Construction And Engineering Disputes, Dissertation submitted as part of the MSc at King s College, London. Tunnels & Tunnelling International various articles Tunnelling Journal various articles RIBA Journal article: Page 5 of 6

6 Going Direct RIBA Journal July 2005 CONTACT DETAILS Paul Cullinan Phone: +44 (0) Mob: +44 (0) Home: +33 (0) contract.com Web: contract.com Page 6 of 6