Expert profile

Syed Ali

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Highlights

Certified Cost, Planning and Scheduling, and Project Management Professional.
Over 15 years of international experience on major projects across a variety of sectors.
Expertise in construction schedules delay, loss of productivity, delay damages, and project controls.
Acted as an expert in litigation and alternative dispute resolution.
Bi-lingual in Urdu and English and working proficiency in Arabic.
Background in project controls for general contractors, owners, and consultants.

Services

Construction Delay & Disruption | Construction Quantum | Commercial Litigation

Industries

Syed Ali is a top arbitration expert witness renowned for his extensive experience in complex delay and quantum issues. He is lauded by peers and clients for his “excellent technical and strong analytical skills.”
Lexology Index - Canada - Arbitration

Expertise

Syed Ali is a Civil Engineer with over 15 years of industry experience. He has been appointed as a delay and quantum expert on multiple occasions.

Syed has acted as lead expert in litigation, mediation, and alternative dispute resolution as well as assisting the named expert in numerous arbitrations and mediations. He has worked on a variety of complex delay and quantum issues, authored expert reports, and undertaken rebuttals to opposing experts, for projects with disputed values of up to $20 million.

Syed also specialises in cost analysis, performance measurement, and productivity analysis, including earned value management. He delivers expert reports on complex delay analysis, delay damages assessment, change orders analyses, disruption analysis, and schedule assessments.

Professional recognition

Lexology Index

Construction
Canada – Arbitration and Construction

Syed provides a thorough and impartial analysis that adds significant value to construction claims. He is a reliable expert in forensic scheduling. Syed is timely, accurate, and a pleasure to work with.
Lexology Index - Construction

Background

Syed has vast experience in schedule management and monitoring, and in development and implementation of project control plans. He has developed and maintained integrated baseline schedules, recovery schedules, and acceleration programs on major projects in infrastructure, oil and gas, marine, power generation, transportation, buildings, wastewater, and industrial plants for projects of up to $5 billion.

Syed is a Project Management Professional, Planning and Scheduling Professional, and Certified Cost Professional, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Society of Construction Law, and the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering. He holds a master’s in construction law and arbitration.

Qualifications

LLM Construction Law and Arbitration
BSc Civil Engineering
Certified Cost Professional
Planning and Scheduling Professional
Project Management Professional