Panel Member

PETER H. J. CHAPMAN
BSc LLB CEng FICE FIEI FCIArb FIHT FHKIE FConsE MSIArb Barrister

Chartered Civil Engineer
Chartered Arbitrator

Panel Adjudicator -
ICE, CIC, CIArb, CIETAC, HKIAC, FIDIC

Peter Chapman is a Chartered Civil Engineer and Barrister. He has 30 years experience in the construction industry, the last fifteen of which he has specialised in dispute resolution in its various forms. He has worked in 20 countries and represented owner organisations, consultants and contractors. He has served on fourteen dispute (adjudication) boards (five appointments as chairman) and has given upward of 100 decisions as adjudicator. His technical experience includes tunnels, dams, power plants, railways, roads, hospitals, airports, buildings and bridges. He is particularly conversant with multi-discipline projects (e.g. power projects, railway projects). As Contracts Manager for the Singapore Mass Rapid Transit Railway Corporation, he was responsible for the resolution of over 2000 construction claims covering delay, disruption, adverse conditions, contract interpretation, measurement, valuation and final accounts.

He is a chartered arbitrator and has undertaken approximately 50 arbitration references (including chairing ICC Tribunals). He also acts as mediator/conciliator in construction disputes.

He is currently the chairman of the ICE Advisory Panel on Legal Affairs (2000-2003), a member of Council for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Main Board member of the Dispute Review Board Foundation (USA) and founder of the Adjudication Society. He is a recipient of the ICE Webb Prize for Civil Engineering and a regular lecturer for FIDIC, ICE and the Major Projects Association.

Author of Construction Adjudication (with Robert Stevenson) and numerous papers on dispute resolution and dispute (adjudication) boards.