Expert profile

Andrew Merrilees

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Highlights

Chartered Quantity Surveyor with over 30 years of experience.
Proven as a credible expert witness under cross-examination.
Specialises in quantum delay, and disruption matters.
Expertise across construction, engineering, and insurance disputes. 
Vice president of the Chartered Institute of Building Singapore.

Services

Construction Delay & Disruption | Construction Quantum | Insurance Claims | International Arbitration

Industries

Andrew Merrilees enjoys a fantastic reputation in the construction sector for his valuation of damages, with peers and clients recommending him as “a safe pair of hands and a steady witness”.
Lexology Index - Consulting - Construction - Quantum, Delay, and Technical

Expertise

Andrew Merrilees is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with over 30 years of experience. He has been appointed as a quantum and delay expert on more than 15 occasions.

Andrew has testified in arbitration, litigation, mediation, adjudication, and provided support to dispute boards under the rules of SIAC, AIAC, HKIAC, DIAC, LCIA, and the courts. He has produced expert reports for disputes with values of up to $500 million.

Andrew specialises in expert witness and dispute avoidance involving complex claims and disputes across the construction, engineering and insurance industries. He has particular expertise in delay and disruption and quantum matters of loss and expense.

Professional recognition

Lexology Index

Consulting – Construction – Quantum, Delay, and Technical

Background

Andrew has extensive experience in building and civil engineering projects, including construction management, design and build, and target cost contracts. He has led commercial and quantity surveying teams while interfacing and liaising with the employer’s representatives, design, architectural, and engineering consultants, construction and planning staff, and legal representatives.

Andrew is dual-qualified, with qualifications in quantity surveying and law. He is a fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Quantity Surveyors, the Chartered Institute of Building, the Association for Project Management, the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors, the Association of Cost Engineers, and the Chartered Management Institute. Andrew is a member of both the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Society of Construction Law, a practising member and accredited expert of the Academy of Experts, and a registered professional surveyor in Hong Kong.