Expert Services
Trusted Insight in High-Stakes Environments
When outcomes hinge on technical certainty, Converra’s experts deliver. With deep specialisation in delay, quantum, and engineering matters, we provide objective analysis, defensible methodologies, and testimony that stands up to scrutiny. We serve tribunals, clients, and legal teams alike—bringing clarity to complexity and confidence to every decision.
Peer Reviews
- Conduct constructability and design reviews to validate technical coherence and code compliance.
- Assess completeness, coordination, and sequencing efficiency.
- Recommend corrective actions and value engineering opportunities.
Construction Oversight
- Provide expert observation of workmanship, method compliance, and material deployment.
- Prepare photographic and technical logs of construction activity.
- Highlight deviations from contract or standards and recommend rectification.
Forensic Engineering
- Investigate causes of structural failure, material defects, or construction anomalies.
- Conduct laboratory tests, simulations, and site inspections.
- Attribute liability and recommend engineering remedies.
Financial Expert Analysis
- Analyse disputed financial records, cost build-ups, and valuation mechanisms in line with accounting and contractual principles.
- Reconstruct cash flow, payment trails, and budget evolution across project phases.
- Identify fraudulent entries, inflated claims, or non-compliant financial treatment using forensic accounting techniques.
- Assess loss, damage, and quantum in commercial, contractual, and insurance-related disputes.
- Deliver expert reports, rebuttal opinions, and testimony for mediation, arbitration, and litigation.
- Assist legal counsel with financial breakdowns, sensitivity analysis, and critique of opposing financial reports.
Independent Reporting
- Issue neutral, tribunal-ready reports on quantum, delay, and technical matters.
- Adhere to procedural standards for admissibility and independence.
- Support pre-trial, mediation, and arbitration forums.
Expert Witness – Delay, Quantum, Technical
- Prepare expert evidence based on SCL (Society of Construction Law) Protocol and AACE (Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering) Recommended Practices.
- Deliver written and oral testimony under cross-examination across ICC, LCIA, DIAC, QICCA, SCCA, SIAC, and DIFC-LCIA., and other forums.
- Defend findings with data-supported reasoning and independent credibility.
- Prepare and submit joint expert reports in collaboration with opposing experts when required by the tribunal.
- Provide methodology confirmation statements and explanatory notes for transparency and procedural compliance.
- Draft main expert reports, reply reports, and rebuttal opinions supported by evidence and compliant with procedural rules.
- Assist legal counsel by supplying technical input to support case strategy and documentation.
- Engage with stakeholders, including tribunal members and instructing solicitors, to ensure clear understanding of technical matters.
- Participate in expert meetings, hot-tubbing (concurrent expert evidence), and clarifications as required during hearings.

