Expert profile
Highlights
- Widely experienced and respected quantum expert in the energy, marine, manufacturing, industrial, utilities and infrastructure sectors.
- Specialises in high-value oil and gas, shipbuilding and industrial process plant disputes.
- Appointed as quantum expert on disputes up to US$1.2 billion.
- Understands the needs of the tribunal in relation to expert evidence through extensive experience as a third-party dispute resolver.
- Proven as a credible witness under cross-examination and concurrent witness conferencing.
- Lexology Index has described him as a “superb expert” who “writes excellent reports that earn the trust of tribunals”.
Services
Construction Delay & Disruption | Construction Quantum | Commercial Litigation | International ArbitrationIndustries
Buildings | Industrial & Manufacturing | Transportation Infrastructure | Marine & Shipping | Mining & Metals | Oil & Gas | Power & Utilities
Mark is an excellent expert whom I recommend highly. He finds key quantum issues and gets his opinions across concisely.
Lexology Index - Construction - Thought Leader
Expertise
Mark Dixon is a dual-qualified Chartered Surveyor and Chartered Arbitrator with 40 years’ experience in engineering and construction, and is a respected international quantum expert witness and dispute resolver.
Mark first testified as an expert witness in court in 1995. He has given oral testimony in the English courts (including the TCC) and in various international arbitration proceedings, by traditional cross-examination and concurrent expert conferencing. His expert commissions have included disputes up to US$1.2 billion on contracts up to US$2.5 billion, within wider projects up to US$17 billion in value. Mark is also an experienced third party neutral. He has been appointed as adjudicator or arbitrator on over 500 cases.
Mark specialises in major oil and gas, marine, industrial, power and utilities sector projects and has been appointed as expert on offshore and onshore oil and gas facilities in Asia, Australia, Europe and the Middle East; shipbuilding contracts in Europe and Asia; and power, utilities and process plant projects in Europe. He has also been appointed on various infrastructure and building construction projects in Europe.
Professional recognition
Lexology Index
Construction – Thought Leader
Arbitration
Mark Dixon ranks amongst the best players in our construction quantum and delay experts research, maintaining a reputation as “an amazing expert” for his extensive experience across high-value construction disputes.
Lexology Index - Consulting - Construction - Quantum Delay and Technical
Background
Mark’s expert and dispute resolution practice is underpinned by experience in estimating, tendering, project surveying, contract administration, commercial project and contract management, delay analysis, and claims consultancy. He has been involved in contracts up to US$11 billion on projects valued up to US$30 billion.
Mark holds the CIArb’s Arbitration and Adjudication Panel Practice Certificates and is on adjudication panels of the RICS, ICE, CIArb, TeCSA, RIBA, AICA, CIC and CLG, and arbitration panels or lists of the RICS, CIArb, ICC, LCIA, HKIAC, AIAC, CIETAC, SHIAC, SCIA, LMAA (Supporting Member) and PIAC.
Qualifications
BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying (First Class Honours)
DipArb
Professional Memberships
FRICS, FCIArb, FACostE, MAE, Chartered Arbitrator