Expert profile

Nader Emile

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Highlights

Multilingual and legally qualified civil engineer.
Proven as a credible expert witness under cross-examination.
Hands-on planning and project controls background on large-scale, complex projects.
Saudi arbitration experience as both tribunal and party appointed expert.
Proven expertise in EOT disputes and both prospective and retrospective delay analysis.
Highly articulate with strong presentation, verbal and drafting skills.

Services

Construction Delay & Disruption

Industries

Buildings | Industrial & Manufacturing | Transportation Infrastructure | Oil & Gas | Power & Utilities

Nader Emile combines legal qualifications with hands-on engineering expertise to deliver precise and credible delay analyses, consistently excelling as an expert witness in complex construction disputes.
Lexology Index - Consulting - Construction - Quantum, Delay and Technical - Future Leader

Expertise

Nader Emile is a legally qualified civil engineer with nearly 25 years of construction and engineering industry experience. He has been appointed multiple times as an independent expert witness in matters of project delay.

Nader provides claims consulting and dispute resolution services, including arbitration support, forensic delay analysis and planning advice on a wide range of projects across the Middle East and North Africa. He has been both party and tribunal appointed as a delay expert preparing expert reports and providing oral testimony in formal proceedings, including cross examination under various arbitration rules.

Nader has a proven ability to apply sophisticated scheduling and delay analysis techniques and has experience with a wide range of programmes and planning software used to manage construction projects. He is also familiar with many standard forms of contract, the Society of Construction Law (SCL) Delay & Disruption Protocol, the American Association of Cost Engineers’ (AACE) recommended practices for forensic scheduling and the Saudi Government Tenders & Procurement Law and its implementing regulations.

Professional recognition

Lexology Index

Construction – Future Leader

Nader is simply a great expert. He offers his clients technical capabilities, professionality, and timely delivery.
Lexology Index - Construction - Future Leader

Background

Nader’s experience portfolio includes many prestigious projects including retail malls, residential/office buildings, hotels, universities, airports, railways, power stations and oil & gas installations. He previously worked as a senior project planner for internationally renowned contractors on a variety of large and complex projects.

Nader holds qualifications in construction engineering, project management, business administration, construction law and arbitration, and contracts and claims. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and a member of the Society of Construction Law, the Saudi Council of Engineers, and the Egyptian Syndicate of Engineers. He is also an Accredited Expert Witness with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and has obtained his certificate in Independent Expert Determination. Nader is fluent in Arabic, English, and French. He delivers training and lectures regarding planning and scheduling techniques, the preparation of complex extension of time (EOT) claims, and different delay analysis methodologies.

Qualifications

BSc Construction Engineering
MBA Business Administration General Management
LLM Construction Law & Arbitration
PMP Project Management Professional
PGDip Contracts & Claims Professional Program
RICS Accredited Expert Witness