John Fff Obrien

Background

About John Fff Obrien

John O’Brien FCIArb FSCSI FRICS MCInstCES is a Chartered & Registered Quantity Surveyor & Civil Engineering Surveyor, and a Construction Technician, and has been one of the country’s leading claims consultants since 2002. John has been responsible for the resolution of in excess of 130 major disputes.[Refer to a schedule below of cases successfully resolved (updated 24th August 2020) as an indication of the extent of John’s ADR key experience] The Company John Farage O’Brien, is a well-established firm of contract claims and dispute consultants, that have spent most of the past two decades providing expert consultation to domestic and international contractors and have enjoyed outstanding success in the managing and negotiating of settlements for some of the largest public and private sector construction disputes in the state, in mediation conciliation, arbitration and statutory adjudication. John is also a qualified mediator, conciliator and arbitrator himself, and has been appointed as a 3rd party neutral on c.40 disputes that have all been concluded successfully. John’s client base includes building & civil engineering main contractors and sub-contractors and specialist suppliers, construction design professionals, employers, hauliers, developers, environmental engineering companies, data centre security firms, insurers, receivers and liquidators. John’s firm investigates the facts of alleged breaches of contract, and once satisfied that entitlement exists, correlates the witness statements and narratives and produces the necessary evidenced claim documents for, final accounts, mediation, conciliation, adjudication and arbitration. John is himself an experienced and well versed advocate, mostly in conciliation plenary sessions, mediation sessions and amicable settlement meetings. John provides extensive legal support to counsel in Arbitration and has worked with many of the leading construction law firms in the state. John's key experience: project management, quantity surveying, delay analysis and programming, disruption, building construction technology, mechanical, electrical, process, environmental engineering, energy, wind-farms, cable infrastructure, bridge structures, foundation and earthworks, motorway construction and road realignment works, utilities, light & heavy railway, refurbishment. Roles and duties of professionals in the construction process.(Architects / Engineers / Surveyors). Mediation, Conciliation, Arbitration, Adjudication, ADR.