Keith Strutt, MSc, LLM, PG Dip

Background

Keith has over 45 years of experience in the engineering and construction industries.  He has worked in the building, civil engineering, and rail sectors of construction, and has extensively prepared and defended contractual claims in these sectors, as well as in connection with oil & gas fields, petrochemical and refinery projects, process plants, power plants, and mining projects, as an expert.

Keith’s work includes construction management, client advisory (contract and commercial), lead negotiator, funder’s project representative, and as an expert in management and cost on projects in excess of $200 billion, in formal dispute negotiations in excess of $60 billion, and testified in formal disputes in excess of $7 billion.

Relevant experience includes quantum, delay, and construction management appointments in connection with building and mixed-use developments, chemical and material processing plants, oil & gas processing plants, and pipework disputes in process, power, and transportation projects.

Other project examples include: offshore and onshore wind, water treatment plants, diesel refineries, offshore oil-rig drilling operations, redevelopment of three gold mines, gas turbine and combined-cycle power plants, and petrochemical and alcohol process plants.

Keith has been appointed to provide advice on the administration of live projects, specialising in dispute avoidance, risk management, procurement, interpretation of technical and process elements of construction contracts, project management structure, and strategy.

Keith also provided technical and commercial advice, as well as negotiation support, to the Minister of State for oil and gas of a prominent CIS republic during the renegotiation of production-sharing agreements, dispute settlement, and formal disputes, leading negotiations on commercial and technical matters.

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