Haitham Khaireldin

Haitham Khaireldin has 20 years of experience in construction, consultancy, and expert services. He has been appointed as a delay and quantum expert on numerous occasions.

Haitham has acted as both party-appointed expert in arbitration and an expert in litigation, and has given written and oral evidence to the tribunal and has been cross-examined by counsel. He has been appointed as a court expert more than 200 times, providing independent expert determination as part of legal proceedings for various types of disputes, including civil engineering, buildings and real estate.

Haitham has extensive experience in planning, project controls, and delay analysis, and has provided expert opinion on projects in the oil and gas, power and utilities, infrastructure, and building sectors, with disputed values of up to $250 million. He is familiar with various standard forms of contract and is adept with all forms of planning software.

Haitham specialises in opining on the extension of time entitlement and the enforceability of liquidated damages. He has notable expertise in giga projects, having led the preparation of detailed delay analysis and advisory services on the third expansion of the Holy Mosque project and the King Salman Park in Saudi Arabia.

Haitham holds master’s degrees in both quantity surveying and construction law and arbitration, as well as a certificate in LETAPAEWE (Legal Experience Training Advanced Professional Award in Expert Witness Evidence). He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Chartered Quantity Surveyor at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, a member of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors, a practising member of the Academy of Experts, and a member of the Society of Construction Law and the Guild of Project Controls.