Andrew Woodward

Corporate Technical Director at Quantum Global Solutions

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About

A Chartered Civil Engineer, Arbitrator and Expert Witness, with extensive commercial, contractual and business-management knowledge – gained from a working life embedded within the construction industry. Extensive experience with complex infrastructure and engineering projects – particularly motorways, structures, tower blocks, process engineering, power stations etc – delivered under FIDIC and other similar forms of contract. Operating in many jurisdictions such as Europe, the Middle East and Asia. A specialist at dispute in construction quantum, delay and construction management issues. A calm and influential individual, having lead multi-disciplinary teams to success at board level on individual projects and joint ventures. Helping to deliver certainty to complex issues with a wide portfolio of clients, through the analysis of the facts, the use of logic and application of simple common sense.

Experience

  • Corporate Technical Director at Quantum Global Solutions
    Jan 2013 - Present · 13 yrs 6 mos

    Chartered Civil Engineer, Arbitrator and dispute resolution specialist, drawing on detailed engineering expertise to help clients find solutions to their ‘thorny’ international construction and engineering disputes. With a track record developed from International Arbitration, leading multiple teams throughout the wider Middle East region, Europe and Asia to help dispel the myths surrounding the issues of delay and disruption.

  • Engineering Consultant & Dispute Specialist at Affirm Associates LLP
    Feb 2011 - Dec 2012 · 1 yr 11 mos

    Member of the team bringing Business Management, Programme and Quantum expertise to a range of major national, and international, construction disputes. Focused on the nature and understanding of particular dispute matters, with their conversion into claims strategies, forming part of Alternative Dispute Resolution procedures.

  • Managing Director at Raymond Brown Construction Limited
    Feb 2007 - Feb 2011 · 4 yrs 1 mo

    Headed the construction division of the expanding Raymond Brown Group. Led the team through a regional expansion and reconfiguration of the business away from building and construction back towards a focus on the civil engineering and infrastructure markets. Particular focus was brought to ‘professionalising’ operations within the business, to align them with more sophisticated clients, whilst expanding operations within the local authority, waste and defence sectors.

  • Senior Project Manager at Mowlem PLC
    1991 - 2007 · 16 yrs

    Joined from college as a Graduate Civil Engineer, working through the traditional career path of engineering project management from small-scale civil engineering projects to large-scale infrastructure works. Responsible for the delivery of major infrastructure projects within the group, such as the €75m N8 Watergrasshill project in the Republic of Ireland and also a key member of the Highways and Major Projects team, working through business improvement initiatives and bidding for large-scale ECI contracts within the UK.