Simon Yates
DipSurvPract | BSc (hons) | PgDipAdj | LL.M | FCInstCES | FRICS | FCIArb | RICS Registered Expert Witness
Simon Yates
Managing Director
Specialisms
Adjudication, Dispute Resolution, Expert Witness, NEC Contracts, Commercial Management, Construction Claims
Professional History
- Managing Director – Rowfield Commercial
- Contract Administrator – National Grid
- Commercial Manager – Babcock International
- Senior Quantity Surveyor – EC Harris
- Quantity Surveyor – EC Harris
- Assistant Quantity Surveyor – Capita
Simon Yates
Managing Director
Profile
Simon is a dual qualified Chartered Quantity Surveyor and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, with over 25 years’ experience in the construction industry. He is a Director at Rowfield Commercial, a firm that specialises in providing Commercial Management, Dispute Resolution and Project Services to the construction industry. Simon is the current Vice Chair of the Wales Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Chair 2020-2024), and a Non-Executive Member of the Wales Regional Advisory Board for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Prior to establishing Rowfield Commercial, Simon specialised in contract administration experiencing a range of project sectors and gained extensive experience representing both the client and contractor. Simon has been appointed as Contract Administrator on many projects with contract sums in excess of £100m and single projects up to £1bn.
Simon is an experienced negotiator and dispute resolver and has a solid understanding of all of the major forms of construction contract including NEC, JCT and FIDIC. Where disputes occur, he favours using his in-depth contractual and legal knowledge to achieve amicable solutions. Simon is both a panel adjudicator, and a capable adjudication party representative and has acted in many disputes, drafting submissions, citing relevant case law and preparing quantum and extension of time claims. He is also an RICS Registered Expert Witness, having been certified by the RICS as both a competent author of independent expert reports and comfortable under cross examination.
Academically, Simon holds a University Diploma in Surveying Practice, a Degree in Quantity Surveying, a Post Graduate Diploma in Adjudication and a Master of Laws Degree in Construction Law and Adjudication with Distinction. He is also on the Approved Faculty List of Tutors (Adjudication Pathway) for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
He is a South-West Subcommittee Member and Treasurer for the Adjudication Society, and a member of the Society of Construction Law.
Institutions / Panels
- FCIArb – Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- FRICS – Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
- FCInstCES – Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors
- Registered Expert Witness – Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
- Panel Adjudicator – Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors – President’s Panel
- Panel Adjudicator – Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – President’s Panel and LVD MAP
- Panel Adjudicator – UK Adjudicators – Main Panel and LVD MAP
- Panel Adjudicator – Construction Industry Council – Main Panel and LVD MAP
- Panel Adjudicator – Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution – LVD MAP
- Panel Arbitrator – Business Arbitration Scheme – Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- Panel Arbitrator – Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Act Debt Arbitration Scheme – Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Education
- Decision Writing Construction Adjudication – Leeds Beckett University
- Expert Witness Certificate – Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
- LL.M – Master of Laws in Construction Law and Adjudication with Distinction
- PgDipAdj – Post Graduate Diploma in Adjudication – Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
- BSc (hons) – Degree in Quantity Surveying – Reading University
- DipSurvPract – Diploma in Surveying Practice – Reading University
Societies / Involvement
- Wales Branch Vice Chair – Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- Non-Executive Member of the Wales Regional Advisory Board – Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
- Adjudication Society – South-West Subcommittee and Treasurer
- Approved Faculty List of Tutors – Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- Review Examiner – Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors
- Adjudication Specialist Group – Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- APC Councillor – Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
- Construction Arbrix – Member
- Society of Construction Law – Member
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Rowfield are a firm of Chartered Quantity Surveyors that provide commercial management, dispute resolution and project support services to the construction industry.