ADJUDICATOR PROFILE – JOHN PATRICK FISHER

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CONTACT DETAILS
Name: / John Patrick Fisher
Phone: / 08 9447 3894
Mobile: / 0414 402337
Fax: / 08 9238 0778
Email 1: /
Email 2: /
POSTAL ADDRESS
Address Line 1: / JP Fisher Consulting Pty Ltd
Address Line 2: / 5 Hoxton Rise
Suburb: / Carine
State: / WA
Postcode: / 6020
RATES
Adjudicator’s Rates: / $350.00 /hour + GST / Choose an item.
Travel Costs: / Metro: $ 0.00/km / Regional: $ 1.00/km
Notes:
ie Disbursements and Expenses will be charged at cost. / Travel time at the same rate as adjudication time.
Disbursements and expenses charged at cost.
BIO
Experience: / 40 years as civil engineer/project manager in all types of construction – buildings/road/rail/airports/mining/domestic.
9 years as dispute resolution consultant
Areas of Expertise: / See career overview below
Qualifications: / BSc Civil Engineering (Sheffield Hallam UK)
Professional Certificate in Arbitration (Adelaide)
Professional Memberships and Affiliations: / Member Institution of Civil Engineers
Fellow Association for Project Management
Fellow Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Fellow Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia
Fellow Resolution Institute

Career Overview

John is a chartered civil engineer with over 40 years’ experience with a particular emphasis on major buildings and infrastructure, acting in the capacities of client, consultant, contractor and subcontractor. Over many years in project management consultancy he has managed a wide variety of rail, resources, roads, infrastructure, airports, high rise, industrial, health, education, prisons, commercial and retail projects.

From early days as a design engineer, he developed an international career spanning many countries and created profitable businesses in the UK, UAE, South East Asia and Australia. Engineering projects include rail freight lines in Africa, mining infrastructure in Australia and the world’s largest religious dome and two 34 storey buildings in Asia. Since 2008 he has run his own practice in Perth specialising in project management and dispute resolution in WA and NT with a niche market of recovery of projects in distress. He was brought in to turn around an ore unloading facility project in NT. He worked with a State Government and its contractor to successfully negotiate complex contractual issues arising on road construction. John has a particular background in forensic analysis of projects. He has acted as an expert in an arbitration involving sheet piling failure causing building collapse in Penang Malaysia and as a mediator in various insurance claims involving embankment and retaining wall failure in Western Australia.

A Senior Sessional Member of the WA State Administrative Tribunal, John is an arbitrator and an adjudicator in WA and NT. He has presented courses to train adjudicators on behalf of the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia and its successor, Resolution Institute, where he serves as a Board Director. He has acted as an expert witness and undertaken expert determinations. A NMAS accredited mediator, he undertakes mediations on multi-million disputes as well as smaller disputes behalf of the Small Business Development Corporation.

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