Andrew Bower

Andrew has over 25 years experience in the Construction industry acting as commercial manager for both consultancy and contracting organisations. Initially trained as a Quantity Surveyor working for a private surveying practice in London where he obtained good basic surveying experiences. He then worked , again with a private practice seconded to WS Atkins, on large civil engineering projects (M25 being just one project). Andrew then joined a private practice in South Wales and gained experience within the local authority sector. He then joined a local authority working on substantial house modernisation schemes. It was during this period that he gained experience in claims and disputes. Andrew then worked as a freelance surveyor for a wide variety of clients utilising his experience from previous years. He then worked for a large contracting organisation in South Wales on large extremely complex projects. He then joined a large Canadian construction management contractor and led the commercial management team constructing a new facility at a leading UK car manufacturer.

Andrew has a wide variety of experience in almost every sector of the construction industry and specialises in Risk Management, Procurement, Dispute Resolution and Avoidance and regularly utilises interactive white boards as an effective commercial management tool.

Byron Robson

An experienced (former) Chartered Quantity Surveyor with a proven track record of success over a period of 30 years within the construction industry at home and abroad. Extensive experience with final account, claims and dispute resolution.  

Byron started life in a contracting organisation working on a wide variety of building and civil engineering projects and then joined a house builder running small and large sites across South Wales. From there he joined Henry Boot before leaving the UK to join a Surveying Practice on secondment to an American petro-chemical contractor working off shore and then with a UK contractor on an island in UAE on a major infrastructure development programme.

On his return to UK he joined a regional road builder on several blue chip schemes on and around M4. Thereafter he joined a national contractor and was Project Surveyor on a number of hotel schemes. One of the schemes developed into a lengthy and complicated Arbitration which exposed Byron to his first formal construction dispute before setting up in Practice in 1990

The Practice acted as both Surveying and Management consultants for a variety of contractors and sub-contractors including American and German contractors needing reliable professional advice in an alien market. Further dispute work followed.

A keen follower of dispute resolution procedures involvement in his first Adjudication occurred almost as soon as the process was available . Since then Byron has acted both as witness for clients and as lead consultant engaging Counsel as and when required on Adjudications and Arbitrations.