Disputes often include complex technical issues. Instructing a competent technical expert is therefore essential. Such an expert can identify these issues and investigate and opine on them in a manner that can be understood. This includes the cause and impact of technical matters within an often elaborate matrix of fact and opinion.
Diales’ technical experts are able to provide clear and concise opinion on such issues within a dispute in the form of clear and succinct reports. They are instructed on a wide ranging variety of disputes including issues related to all stages of a project lifecycle from design, workmanship and construction through to post-handover maintenance, investigating alleged defects, interrogating documentation and identifying compliance breaches.
Diales can provide experts across various technical disciplines with extensive professional experience of the issues that they are instructed to opine on.
Our areas of technical expertise in the engineering and construction industry include:
- Architecture
- Civil Engineering
- Structural Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Public Health Engineering
- Energy
- Environmental Engineering
Depending on the nature of the dispute, we are also able to provide a multi-discipline team of experts (including complementary disciplines such as quantum and delay), thus providing a complete expert service with the benefit of collaboration and enhanced understanding of the issues between the instructed experts. By way of example, the technical expert is in an ideal position to be able to assist the delay expert with the relevant parts of their delay analysis if required given their intimate knowledge of the relevant events.
Our technical experts are complemented by a wider team of technical and non-technical assistants that can be coordinated and scaled to suit the requirements of the instruction. This model enables the reports to be efficiently produced and technically accessible for a non-technical audience.