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Maged Abdelsayed

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Highlights

Widely experienced professional engineer.
Proven as a credible expert witness under cross-examination in both litigation and arbitration.
International experience of major construction projects across a variety of sectors.
Develops and delivers training programs and regularly presents on delay and productivity analysis, damages, claims avoidance, and data management practises.
Background in project and site management for contractors, engineering firms and consultants.

Services

Construction Delay & Disruption | Construction Quantum | Commercial Litigation | International Arbitration

Industries

Maged is a consummate professional who will perform the mandate exceptionally well. He has excellent written and oral skills. He is a tremendous construction expert of the highest caliber.
Lexology Index - Construction - Global Elite Thought Leader

Expertise

Maged Abdelsayed is a professional engineer with 35 years of construction industry experience. He has been appointed as an expert on more than 100 occasions for matters relating to delay, quantum and government contracting.

Maged has been cross-examined in both litigation and arbitration appearing before various courts and panels. His has acted as an expert witness in North America and internationally on disputed projects ranging from transport infrastructure, power generation and utilities to buildings and industrial plants.

Maged specialises in disputes related to project delays, labor productivity losses, the impact of changes on construction work, and damages assessment. He also provides consulting and advisory services including developing and implementing project management plans and audits, reviewing project practices and control systems, assessing costs and schedules, cost recovery, and preparing and defending construction claims.

Professional recognition

Lexology Index

Construction – Global Elite Thought Leader
Firm Management – Thought Leader
Client Choice – Construction
Canada – Construction

Maged Abdelsayed is singled out as a “tremendous construction expert of the highest calibre”, highly recommended by peers and clients alike who remark on “his ability to summarise the technical, commercial and legal issues in his expert reports”.
Lexology Index - Canada - Construction

Background

Maged has held various project and site management positions for consulting and engineering firms and for major contractors. He has been responsible for project execution, planning, scheduling, cost control as well as claims analysis on industrial, commercial, and civil work projects.

Maged is a member of Quebec’s Order of Engineers (Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec), the American Association of Cost Engineers International, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the American Bar Association. He holds a master’s in engineering project management and is a frequent speaker on the subjects of delay analysis, productivity analysis, quantification of damages, claims avoidance practices, and data management practices and has developed and delivered various training programs on these topics.