Expert profile

Sercan Kocamanoglu

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Highlights

Civil Engineer with more than 15 years of experience.
Testifying delay expert with extensive experience in international arbitration.
RICS certified expert witness.
Dual qualified in construction and law.
Hands-on site experience as the main contractor.
Fluent in English and Turkish.

Services

Construction Delay & Disruption | International Arbitration

Industries

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

Sercan possesses exceptional analytical skills and deep understanding of construction delay matters. His expertise, clear communication, and thorough approach consistently added significant value to the analysis. He has a strong capacity to present complex findings clearly and credibly in arbitration or court settings.
Lexology Index - Arbitration - Future Leader

Expertise

Sercan Kocamanoglu is a civil engineer with more than 15 years of experience. He has been appointed as a delay expert several times and acted as lead assistant to the named expert on numerous occasions.

Sercan is a testifying delay expert and has assisted in a variety of high-profile engineering and construction disputes including attendance at multiple hearings. He has supported both delay and quantum experts in arbitration and adjudication proceedings for projects ranging from large scale power, oil and gas, airport and infrastructure projects to hospitality and residential projects (including high-rise and villa developments).

Sercan specialises in delay and disruption analysis, project planning and scheduling, programme management, and project management. He is familiar with critical path and delay analyses, disruption and acceleration. He is very interested in understanding the details to analyse the delay issues quickly and thoroughly.

Professional recognition

Lexology Index

Arbitration – Future Leader
Construction – Future Leader

Sercan is very diligent in his work. He is a very talented and smart construction expert.
Lexology Index - Construction - Future Leader

Background

Sercan started his career as main contractor and has hands-on experience in design, construction and project planning on a variety of complex projects across the Middle East, Asia and Africa. He was responsible for preparing, monitoring and controlling the baseline programme and delay and disruption claims.

Sercan is a Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors certified expert witness and a member of the Academy of Experts and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He holds a master’s in both construction project management and construction law and arbitration.