Expert profile
Highlights
- Civil engineer and quantity surveyor with over 20 years of experience.
- Specialises in infrastructure, power and nuclear project disputes.
- Background in contracting and knowledgeable in various forms of contract.
- Bilingual in German and English.
Industries
Buildings | Transportation Infrastructure | Oil & Gas | Power & Utilities
Expertise
Laura Burlau is a civil engineer and quantity surveyor with over 20 years of construction industry experience. She has been appointed a quantum expert on multiple occasions and has supported the named expert several times.
Laura has testified in arbitration under cross-examination and concurrent witness conferencing (“hot tubbing”). She has assisted clients in disputes relating to extension of time, liquidated damages, loss and expense and the valuation of variations (and compensation events).
Laura has expertise in the preparation and management of delay and prolongation costs, providing contract advice, quantum analysis of various cost claims, and quantum assessment of the costs of various defects. She specialises in road, rail, power, residential, hotel, and industrial sector disputes.
Background
Laura has a background in main contracting and has held various operational and commercial management roles on high-value projects (under £1 billion) in the UK and Europe. She has a working knowledge of all major standard contracts, including FIDIC, NEC, IChemE, JCT and DBFOs, spanning a variety of projects in the infrastructure, power, and nuclear sectors.
Laura is a member of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitration, and the Society of Construction Law. She holds an advanced professional award in expert witness evidence, the Cardiff University Bond Solon (CUBS) civil expert witness certificate, and is bilingual in German and English.
Qualifications
LLM Construction Law
Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Civil Engineering and Project Management
APAEWE
Professional Memberships
CICES, CIArb, SCL
