David Halford
BSc, MRICS
Managing Director
Office: +44 (0)20 3355 7074
Mobile: +44 (0)7946 654 293
Email: David@tqef.uk.com
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Overview
David is co-founder of TQEF and heads up the firm’s delay and programming expert witness capabilities. He has 30 years’ experience in the construction industry and 20 years’ specialised experience in forensic planning and delay analysis. He is a highly experienced and well regarded delay and programming expert.
David has prepared expert reports and provided oral evidence on delay on a wide range of project types, including major housing and infrastructure developments, wastewater-to-energy power plants, offshore oil (FPSO vessels and drillship reactivation), roads, pipeline projects, data centres, hotels, universities, research facilities, leisure & convention centres, commercial and residential projects, both in the UK domestic market and internationally, including South America, South Africa, South Korea, Libya, Germany, Romania and North Macedonia.
Background and experience
David qualified as a Chartered Quantity Surveyor in 1997 at Davis Langdon & Everest. In 2001, David moved into the field of dispute related consultancy in Davis Langdon’s Legal Support Services Group where he focused on quantum analysis before then specialising in forensic delay analysis in 2005. He became a Partner at Davis Langdon in 2009. In 2012, David co-founded TQEF.
David has undertaken detailed forensic analysis of the nature, cause and extent of delay and disruption on a wide range of construction and engineering projects, including:
- Wastewater-to-energy plants
- Hydro-electric power plants
- Coal fired power stations
- Biomass power plants
- Decommissioning of nuclear power plants
- Crude oil pipelines
- Offshore oil (FPSO vessels and FPU platforms)
- Drillship preservation, maintenance and reactivation
- Low density ammonium nitrate production facilities
- Pharmaceutical and medical facilities
- Process engineering
- Sea Terminals
- Roads and bridges
- Overground and underground rail
- Airports
- Leisure Centres
- Residential developments and high‐end residential dwellings
- Museums
- Hotels
- Commercial developments
- Colleges and Universities
David’s approach to undertaking delay analysis
David has extensive experience acting on behalf of employer and contractor bodies in both international and UK domestic markets. He has a sound understanding of all major retrospective and prospective methods of delay analysis and the ability to apply them in a robust and effective manner in order to establish and analyse the nature, cause and extent of critical and non-critical path delays to projects. This may involve complex analysis of electronic programming data (using programming software including Primavera and Asta PowerProject) or simply a careful review and presentation of the facts in a logical and objective manner.
Regardless of the size and complexity of the project in dispute David recognises that it is essential for any analysis to be based firmly on a careful and thorough review of the facts, evidenced by contemporaneous records, and to set out the findings of the analysis in clear and concise written reports (in the context of both advisory reports to clients and expert reports served in Arbitral Tribunals and other examining bodies).