Expert profile

Cathy Joshi

Independent Consulting Expert

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Highlights

Chartered Civil Engineer.
More than 30 years of experience across the UK and USA, with over 20 years on complex projects in the Middle East.
Provides expert analysis for hospitals, airports, metro and rail and high-rise towers.
Acts as an independent expert for engineering and fit out works.
Expertise in immersed tube tunnels.

Services

Forensic Engineering, Architectural & Scientific

Industries

Buildings

Cathy is a good technical expert. She delivered an exceptional report for one of our cases in record time. Cathy’s analysis was meticulous and highly technical, playing a crucial role in securing a significant victory for our client.
Lexology Index - Construction

Expertise

Cathy Joshi is a Chartered Civil Engineer with more than 30 years of construction industry experience. She has been appointed as a technical expert on 14 occasions.

Cathy has been instructed on high-value arbitration cases involving structural, civil, architectural, fit-out and procedural disputes. She has provided input, as part of an expert team, regarding the design and construction a wide variety of building types and uses and has acted as named expert on an infrastructure project valued in excess of US$200 billion. Cathy has been cross-examined on six occasions in international arbitration proceedings and has given concurrent evidence (hot-tubbing).

Cathy’s expertise includes providing opinion on alleged defects in materials and workmanship, including structural and fit-out works. She combines a track record of success in early dispute resolution with independent investigation and reporting on issues of quality, inadequate coordination between disciplines, non-conformance to design specifications and technical defects.

Professional recognition

Lexology Index

Construction

Arbitration

Cathy delivered an outstanding, highly technical report that was crucial to the outcome of the arbitration. She has excellent organisational and communication skills. Her oral testimonies are impressive.
Lexology Index - Arbitration

Background

Cathy has an extensive background in both the design and project management of high-profile and large-scale, complex projects across the Middle East, Europe, North America and Asia; ranging from buildings and utilities to immersed tube tunnels and causeways. She has vast experience of design and construction processes from feasibility through to project completion, including contract formation, administration, quality assurance, and contract law.

Cathy is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. She holds an LLM in Construction Law and Arbitration.