Joan Kennedy, FCIArb, FPIArb

Background

Joan has more than 15 years of work experience in the construction industry. She worked in architectural practices in the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore before coming to the United Kingdom in 2017, where she worked with an architectural expert consultancy firm specialising in construction advisory and disputes. 

Joan’s experience covers all stages of the construction process, having worked with architectural practices in Southeast Asia for more than 10 years. Her project experience involves design, obtaining authority clearances, tender, construction, and handover. She has administered construction contracts for government-procured projects and design-and-build projects in Singapore. She worked on schools, high-end residential, public housing developments, conservation buildings, office buildings, hotel fit-out and rebranding, retail, restaurants, and mixed-use developments. 

As a technical expert, Joan assisted lead architects on about 50 cases and projects in the UK and overseas across a variety of building projects and sectors. She has played a key role in handling large, complex, and high-value claims in international arbitrations and domestic disputes. She worked on disputes involving bespoke, JCT, and FIDIC contracts.  

The contentious cases she has worked on include transport infrastructure projects (airport and rail), a petrochemical plant, hospitals, mixed-use developments, large high-rise residential developments, student accommodation, and private housing. She has also carried out site investigations of external walls across England following the Grenfell Fire Tragedy.  

Joan has experience in ICC, DIAC, and SIAC arbitration proceedings, as well as in mediations, adjudications, arbitrations, and court proceedings in the UK.   

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