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 20 years’ experience in the construction industry. He is a Director at Rowfield Commercial and the current Chair of the Wales Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Prior to establishing Rowfield Commercial, Simon specialised in contract administration experiencing a range of project sectors, and gaining 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 also 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, 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 a member of the Society of Construction Law and the Adjudication Society.
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 – UK Adjudicators – Main Panel and LVD MAP
- Panel Adjudicator – Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – 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 Chair – Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- Adjudication Specialist Group – Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- Adjudication Society – Regional Convener and Member
- Review Examiner – Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors
- APC Councillor – Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
- Member – Society of Construction Law
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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.