Dubai, UAE

Construction Delay Expert Witness in Dubai

Independent delay and programming expert evidence for arbitration and court proceedings in Dubai and the UAE. Talk to us if you have:

  • a DIAC or arbitrateAD arbitration needing a delay expert
  • a court-appointed expert reviewing your project
  • the other side’s expert report to answer

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Example from the UAE

API Two Tower, building services relocation

Client
Confidential
Work
Independent delay and contractual assessment
Period
Jan 2026

We reviewed the contract documents, schedule causation and delay responsibility for the relocation of building services and MEP enabling works, and prepared the assessment report.

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Ahmed Elsayed, Managing Director, Solvix International

Who you will speak to

Ahmed Elsayed, Managing Director. Ahmed handles UAE dispute inquiries himself, in Arabic or English.

  • MSc with a specialism in delay analysis; PhD candidate in construction claims and dispute resolution
  • Gulf project experience including Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Saudi giga-projects
  • Delay and contractual assessments on UAE disputes, including MEP and building works

Full profile

Expert evidence in UAE disputes

Construction disputes in Dubai are decided in arbitration, mostly at the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC), or in the onshore courts. Abu Dhabi disputes increasingly go to arbitrateAD. In arbitration, each party usually appoints its own delay expert. In the courts, the judge normally appoints an expert from the official register, and the parties present their case through that expert. We work in both settings.

How we can help

  • Party-appointed delay expert in arbitration: independent report, joint statement and evidence at the hearing
  • Shadow expert to the legal team: test the case, the method and the records before an expert is appointed
  • Support in court-appointed expert proceedings: technical memoranda, programme analysis and attendance at expert meetings
  • Review of the opposing expert’s report: method, programme, records and arithmetic
  • Delay sections of the statement of claim or defence for the legal team to file

Independence comes first

An expert’s duty is to the tribunal, not the party paying the fee. We say at the start if the records will not support the position you want, so the case can be adjusted early. Reports follow the IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence where the tribunal applies them, and the SCL Delay and Disruption Protocol for method.

Your first conversation

What we cover

A free 30-minute call. We look at the dispute forum and timetable, the contract, the claims and defences in issue, what the programme records look like, and whether an expert has already been appointed by either side or the court.

What to share first

A short description and your next deadline are enough. If you like, name the forum (DIAC, arbitrateAD or court) and the next procedural deadline. You do not need to send contract documents before the call.

Scope and fee

After the call we agree which documents we need. Once we have reviewed them, we confirm the scope and fee in writing before any work starts.

Send a short brief

No meeting needed. Give us your work email and two sentences about the issue. Please do not attach contract documents at this stage.






    Ahmed Elsayed replies within 1 working day (Monday to Friday, UAE time). Your brief goes only to the Solvix sales inbox. If we go on to work together, we sign an NDA and then send you a private shared folder for the contract documents.

    Before you appoint an expert

    We check for conflicts before any review, and we do not take instructions against a client on the same project. A short first call is enough to tell you whether the records support a delay case and what an expert report would need.

    Earlier stages

    Many disputes start as an EOT claim that was rejected or never determined. See EOT claims in Dubai and delay analysis in Abu Dhabi.

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