Michael Whiting

Michael Whiting is a quantum expert with over 12 years’ experience in construction and engineering, from commercial management on live projects to quantum work in disputes, across the United Kingdom, the Middle East and North Africa. He began his career at 16 as an apprentice quantity surveyor with Balfour Beatty.

Highlights

• Quantum analysis supporting appointed experts in arbitrations in North Africa, the UAE and Oman, in court proceedings in Scotland and in a UK adjudication.
• Interim disruption claim valued by measured mile for gas export pipelines in Saudi Arabia.
• Commercial lead for a main contractor on a £109m, 407-apartment build-to-rent scheme in London, from procurement to final account.

Selected experience

• Quantum analysis for the appointed expert in an arbitration between contractor and subcontractor on phosphate plants in North Africa: prolongation, disruption, measured work, variations, loss of opportunity and head office overheads.
• Quantum analysis for the appointed expert in an arbitration between contractor and MEP subcontractor on a luxury hotel in the UAE.
• Quantum analysis for the appointed expert in an arbitration on a slaughterhouse and associated infrastructure in Oman: prolongation, disruption, variations, late payment and head office overheads.
• Quantum analysis for the appointed expert in court proceedings in Scotland between a building owner and its architect: remediation and additional works, prolongation, funding and financing, energy and operating costs, and internal management costs.
• Interim disruption claim valued by measured mile for a contractor on gas export pipelines in Saudi Arabia, deriving disrupted labour and plant hours by activity.
• Reconstruction from first principles of a subcontractor’s account on a London commercial tower: delay, disruption, variations, contra charges, overheads and finance.
• Commercial lead on a £109m build-to-rent scheme and lifecycle quantity surveying on a £1bn regeneration scheme in London.

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