Expert profile

Andrei Soltan

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Highlights

Highly qualified engineering professional.
Proven as a credible expert witness under cross-examination, including ‘hot-tubbing’.
Acted as an expert witness in both arbitration and adjudication proceedings.
Hands-on experience of large-scale construction and engineering projects.
Specialises in prospective and retrospective delay analysis.
Recognised by Lexology Index as a construction and arbitration expert.

Services

Construction Delay & Disruption

Industries

Buildings | Industrial & Manufacturing | Transportation Infrastructure | Power & Utilities | Technology, Media & Telecoms

Andrei possesses deep knowledge of delay analysis. He is a very experienced expert with impressive attention to detail.
Lexology Index - Construction

Expertise

Andrei is a mechanical engineer with over 20 years of construction and civil engineering experience. He has been appointed as a delay expert and assisted the named expert on numerous occasions.

Andrei has provided independent expert testimony on matters of delay and disruption to Dispute Adjudication Boards and an ICC arbitration proceeding. He is an accredited expert and has been cross-examined by leading specialist construction and engineering lawyers.

Andrei specialises in a wide range of analysis techniques including time impact, impacted as-planned, and as-planned versus as-built. He provides clarity and focus for clients in the identification of periods of critical, and near critical, delay on the projects and the potential causes of those delays. He has supported clients for projects with values up to £850 million and disputed values in excess of £90 million.

Professional recognition

Lexology Index

Arbitration

Construction

Southeast Asia – Arbitration and Construction

Andrei is one of the best delay experts in the region. He has a singular ability to investigate and establish a profound knowledge of any issue that is assigned to him. He is both personable and patient with clients.
Lexology Index - Arbitration

Background

Andrei has a background in quality management and health and safety, including expertise in management systems and compliance with design supervision and execution of works contracts. He has gained expertise from is work for both consulting and contractor organizations and on a wide range of national and international projects, ranging from oil and gas, petrochemical, offshore, civil engineering infrastructure, offices, buildings, and technology projects.

Andrei is a member of the Society of Construction Law, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and a practising member of the Academy of Experts. He holds a 5-year diploma (master’s degree equivalent) in engineering and management of technological systems. Andrei has also completed an advanced professional award in expert witness evidence (LETAPAEWE), accredited by Legal Experience Training, UK.