Nader Emile is a Partner at HKA, based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is a legally qualified Civil Engineer with 24 years’ experience in the construction and engineering industries. Nader is an RICS Accredited Expert Witness and is named in Lexology Index (Formerly Who’s Who Legal) as a Construction Expert in Saudi Arabia.
Nader has extensive experience in project management, programming and analysis of extension of time claims. He is currently providing claims consulting and delay expert services, including claims preparation and defence, planning advisory, forensic delay analysis and arbitration support on a wide range of projects for several clients in the Middle East and North Africa. Nader has also been both party and tribunal appointed as an independent expert in matters of project delay on five occasions and has acted as an Expert Witness providing oral testimony in formal proceedings three times.
Nader’s experience portfolio includes many prestigious projects including retail malls, residential/office buildings, hotels, universities, airports, railways, power stations and oil & gas installations. Prior to focusing on claims and disputes, he worked as a Senior Project Planner with internationally renowned contractors on many large, challenging and complicated projects.
Nader has a proven ability to apply sophisticated scheduling and delay analysis techniques and has experience with a wide range of programmes and planning software used to manage construction projects. He is also familiar with many standard forms of contract, the SCL Delay & Disruption Protocol, the AACE recommended practices for forensic scheduling and the Saudi Government Tenders & Procurement Law and its Implementing Regulations. He conducts training sessions and lectures at seminars on scheduling techniques, delay/prolongation claims and different delay/disruption analysis methodologies.