Arbitrator (C.Arb), Mediator (Q.Med), Adjudicator (Q. Adj. Const.)
Specializes in:
Construction / Engineering, Insurance Claims
Overview
Roy is a professional engineer with over 50 years of development and construction experience (within which there has been 21 years of formal dispute resolution). Watch videos of Roy on construction adjudication (link), on why disputes happen (link), on avoiding dispute escalation (link), and as a seminar presenter in 2015 on conducting peer reviews (link).
Roy’s adjudication experience includes chairing the Mining Board of Manitoba from 2001 to 2011. Training includes five sessions on natural justice and procedural fairness by Supreme Court Justice Marshall Rothstein. Roy’s largest construction dispute settlement involvement to date is an industrial project where the gap between disputants was $130M.
Roy’s development experience includes managing projects for not for profits, the largest of which was a 165 unit housing complex. His construction experience includes design only or design build of over $250M of residential, commercial, heavy and light industrial, institutional, public and private sector projects, the largest of which was the Forward Operating Location (FOL) at Rankin Inlet for the Department of Defense.
Roy earned his B.Sc., Engineering, in 1977, (with distinction) and earned his P. Eng. in 1980. His initial design experience was with the premiere structural consultant in Calgary during the boom of the early 80’s. The largest project where Roy was the structural engineer of record was a 27 storey office building in downtown Calgary.
When the boom in Calgary went bust, Roy relocated to Winnipeg with the largest Manitoba based consultant and expanded his scope to include multi-discipline design management. The FOL was the largest project that the firm had designed to that point in time.
Roy formed his own firm in 1993 and soon added design build to his repertoire. From 1993 to 2014, Roy undertook hundreds of complex projects where he greatly expanded his breadth of expertise.
For the last 11 years, Roy has been a construction dispute resolution practitioner and has resolved a range of multi-party disputes including delay claims, scope disputes, bid irregularities, construction defects, design errors, and contract disputes. Roy issued the first construction adjudication decision in Canada.
ADR Services:
– Arbitrator- Mediator
- Mediator-Arbitrator
- Construction Adjudicator
Location Availability:
– Online- Calgary Area
- Central Alberta
- Edmonton Area
- North Eastern Alberta
- North Western Alberta
- Southern Alberta
- Out-of-Province
Languages Spoken:
EnglishADR Training & Qualifications
Continuing Professional Development since 1980
Adjudicator Training, 2022 - 2024, ADRIC / Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors
Adjudicator Training, 2019, Ontario Dispute Adjudication in Construction Contracts
Nordic Dispute Boards (Stockholm), 2019, Dispute Resolution Board Foundation
Adjudicator Training Course, 2019, Hong Kong Institute of Construction Adjudication
DRB Training (San Francisco), 2015, Dispute Resolution Board Foundation
Fundamentals of Arbitration, 2015, Beifuss International (ADR Institute of Canada)
Practical Ethics for Working Mediators, 2014, ADR Institute of Ontario
LAB Profile Practitioner, 2014, ADR Institute of Alberta
Multi-party Mediation, 2014, ADR Institute of Alberta
ADR Workshop, 2014, Stitt Feld Handy
Essentials of Loss Adjusting, 2014, Insurance Institute
The Expert Witness: Assisting the Trier of Fact, 2014, Engineering Association
Contract Management - Risk Allocation by Design, 2014, ACEC
Six Annual Conferences, 2006 – 2011, Provincial Council of Administrative Tribunals
Five Natural Justice Lectures, 2007–2011, Supreme Court Justice Marshall Rothstein
Other Professional Qualifications
Engineering Degree, 1977, University of Alberta (with distinction)
FE Exam (NCEES), 2002, (highest mark in the State)
