Expert profile
Highlights
- Chartered Civil Engineer
- Proven as a credible expert witness under cross-examination.
- Forensic delay analyst with expertise in planning and CPM programming.
- Understanding of any project process and sequence of design and construction.
- Has provided advice to experts for disputes of up to US$2 billion.
- Bilingual (Spanish and English).
Services
Construction Delay & Disruption | Construction Quantum | Commercial Litigation | International ArbitrationIndustries
Buildings | Industrial & Manufacturing | Transportation Infrastructure | Aerospace & Defense | Healthcare & Life Sciences | Marine & Shipping | Mining & Metals | Oil & Gas | Power & Utilities | Real Estate & Tourism
Macarena is well-known in the market. She is firm in her assertions and clear in her conclusions when faced with very complex cases. A very meticulous construction expert.
Lexology Index - Construction - Future Leader
Expertise
Macarena Diaz Egnem is a Chartered Civil Engineer with more than 15 years of construction industry experience. She has been appointed as an expert 13 times and has assisted the named expert on 17 occasions in delay and quantum matters.
Macarena has been crossed-examined in litigation, arbitration and before Dispute Adjudication Boards. She also regularly provides analysis and opinion for expert reports in conjunction with named experts for buildings, infrastructure and power projects across South America, Europe, the Middle East and USA.
Macarena specialises in the processes of planning and control for the whole project lifecycle. She undertakes both forensic delay and quantum analysis and advises on matters ranging from extensions of time, delay and acceleration to disruption and cost overruns.
Professional recognition
Lexology Index
Client Choice – Arbitration
Projects and Procurement
Arbitration – Future Leader
Construction – Future Leader
Macarena is exceptionally thorough. She possesses strong conceptual clarity and confidence in complex delay assessments. Her analysis is outstanding.
Lexology Index - Arbitration - Future Leader
Background
Macarena has worked for owners, contractors, engineering consultants, litigants and courts across development, construction and dispute resolution disciplines. Her prior engagements include a range of power projects from hydroelectric plants, thermoelectric plants, and geothermal and nuclear power stations to wind farms, solar power plants, substations and transmission lines; roadways construction; large marine facilities; metro, rail and airport transportation; hospital, residential, office and hotel buildings; construction of operational facilities for the mining sector; as well as a pulp mill (cellulose plant) and oil refineries.
Macarena is member of the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International, The Guild of Project Controls and the Society of Construction Law. She is also a member of the Sociedad Chilena del Derecho de la Construcción, the Chilean Association of Engineers and the Project Management College of Scheduling. Macarena is bilingual and supports clients in both Spanish and English.
Qualifications
MSc Construction Project Management
BESc Civil Engineering
Chartered Civil Engineer, Chile
Professional Memberships
AACEi, CCDP-IPMA, GPC, SCHDC, SCL, PMCOS, Chilean Association of Engineers
Contact Macarena
Email: macarenadiaz@hka.com
