
Andrew Essam
Chartered Quantity Surveyor & Adjudicator
Experience: 30+ Years
Adjudications: 200+
Location: London, UK
Profile Highlights
- Chartered Quantity Surveyor since 1986
- Construction Adjudicator since 2001
- Over 200 Construction Adjudication appointments
Professional Summary
Andrew Essam is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor, qualifying in 1986, and has been a Construction Adjudicator since 2001 having over 30 years experience in the construction industry.
Academic Qualifications
- BSc (Quantity Surveying)
- MSc (Construction Law and Arbitration)
Professional Qualifications
- FCIArb
- FRICS
- Chartered Quantity Surveyor
- Accredited Mediator
Professional Bodies
- RICS
- CIArb
- CIC
Detailed Experience & Expertise
Comprehensive Background
Having worked as a QS in a professional practice, as a QS on the construction side and having worked on behalf of clients, design professionals, contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers Andrew has a comprehensive understanding of the challenges facing all parties in the construction industry supply chain.
He is on various Adjudication Panels and has been nominated by the ConstructionAdjudicators.com, CIC, CIArb, AICA and RICS and through party appointments to act as an Adjudicator on over 200 Construction Adjudications.
These adjudication appointments have included consideration of legal issues such as formation of and interpretation of contract, express and implied terms; fundamental and repudiatory breach of contract, termination, damages for breach of contract, liquidated damages, unliquidated damages, penalties, claims for payment, rates for payment, disruption claims, global claims, quantum meruit, set-off and counter claims, causation, delay, concurrency, extensions of time, reasonable period of time, time at large; practical completion, non-completion, delayed completion; agents authority, ostensible authority, instructions for additional or varied work, defective work; mistake, waiver, estoppel and economic duress.
He is experienced in dealing with adjudications between all parties within the construction industry supply chain from Main Contractor, Sub-Contractor, Sub-Sub-Contractor, Employers or Clients of all type to Consultants. These have arisen on a vast array of building, civil and process engineering projects under various contracts, including the various standard JCT, NEC, PPC contracts with or without amendments, oral contracts and bespoke contracts with the value in dispute ranging from thousands to multi million pounds.
Andrew has acted as a Party Representative in connection with various construction disputes he has been involved in the preparation of adjudications for Payment Notices, Extension of Time and Loss and Expense Claims, Valuations and Final Accounts. He acts for clients in numerous specialist areas of the construction industry including Groundworks, Structural Steelwork and Architectural Metalwork, Curtain Walling, Cladding, Masonry, Partitions, Suspended Ceilings, Flooring, Water and Process Engineering.
Adjudication Panels
ConstructionAdjudicators.comCICCIArbAICARICS
Legal & Contractual Expertise
Contract Formation & Interpretation
Fundamental & Repudiatory Breach
Termination & Damages
Liquidated & Unliquidated Damages
Payment Claims & Valuation
Disruption & Global Claims
Quantum Meruit
Set-off & Counter Claims
Delay Analysis & Concurrency
Extensions of Time
Practical & Delayed Completion
Defective Work & Variations
Mistake, Waiver & Estoppel
Economic Duress
Contract Experience
JCT ContractsNEC ContractsPPC ContractsOral ContractsBespoke Contracts
Project Types & Specializations
Building ProjectsCivil EngineeringProcess EngineeringGroundworksStructural SteelworkArchitectural MetalworkCurtain Walling & CladdingMasonry & PartitionsSuspended Ceilings & FlooringWater & Process Engineering
Representative Adjudication Cases
Major Infrastructure Delay Claim
2023Adjudication of £18M delay and disruption claim on a highway infrastructure project involving complex programming analysis and concurrent delay issues.
Contract
NEC3 ECC
Value
£18M
Outcome
Successful resolution with partial award
Commercial Development Final Account
2022Dispute over final account valuation and variations in £45M mixed-use commercial development involving multiple subcontractor packages.
Contract
JCT Design and Build
Value
£45M
Outcome
Settlement reached during adjudication process
Structural Steelwork Payment Dispute
2022Adjudication of payment notices and valuation disputes for specialist structural steelwork package on high-rise construction project.
Contract
Bespoke Subcontract
Value
£8.5M
Outcome
Award in favor of subcontractor
Process Engineering Variations
2021Complex adjudication involving multiple variation instructions and disputed rates for water process engineering installation.
Contract
NEC4 ECC
Value
£12M
Outcome
Partial award with detailed valuation