TIM ELLIS
MANAGING DIRECTOR

BSc Hons Quantity Surveying

Tim’s delay analysis and planning expertise has helped many clients establish, inter alia, the cause of delay, the effects of change and the status of progress. In so doing he has both saved and recovered for his clients significant sums of money, whilst reducing the inconvenience of such matters place on his client’s team.

Tim is the Managing Director of MBM Consulting Ltd with overall responsibility for planning and delay analysis. Tim specialises in giving advice on project delays, extensions of time and disruption matters both in the preparation of claims and defence. He has also represented both referring and responding parties in numerous adjudications as well as providing expert witness services. Tim also advises clients on project planning and has assisted a number of clients in preparing programmes for acceptance under the NEC form of contract together with tender and contract programmes under JCT forms of contract.

SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE
Tim’s experience extends to the preparation and defence of complex time and quantum matters within formal proceedings. These include numerous adjudication cases and several high profile arbitrations. Tim has also given oral evidence and been cross-examined within a major hearing.

Tim has a high level of experience of most of the main versions of software used in project programme planning within the industry including Primavera P6, SureTrak, PowerProject Teamplan, Microsoft Project and Pertmaster.

• Expert witness for a number of appointments
• Preparation of complex time analysis submissions for contractors
• Preparation of labour disruption submission for contractors
• Auditing and review of contractors and sub-contractor extension of time and loss and expense claims

TRAINING & AFFILIATIONS
Honours Degree in Quantity Surveying (Nottingham Trent University)
Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
RICS Advanced Professional Award in Expert Witness Evidence
Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Member Society of Construction Law
Member Adjudication Society