PETER AEBERLI
MA, BA Dip Arch, DipICArb, RIBA, ARIAS, ACE, FCIArb.
Barrister, Chartered Arbitrator, Adjudicator, Accredited CEDR Mediator
PETER AEBERLI is a Canadian citizen, resident in the United Kingdom. He is a duly qualified Barrister and Architect and an experienced arbitrator, mediator and adjudicator. Apart from work as a barrister, his focus is dispute resolution principally, but not solely, in the construction industry. He has handled two and multi-party disputes. He is available for receives appointments as arbitrator, adjudicator and mediator by party agreement and from bodies such as the CIArb (including NHBC), the CIOB, the Construction Confederation, CEDR, AICA, the RIBA, the RICS, the ICE, the ICC, the LCIA and the Law Society. He has been asked by the ICDR (AAA) to chair a tribunal but had to decline for personal reasons. He is listed as an adjudicator on high value and prestigious projects including the London 2012 Adjudication Panel, Crossrail and BAA Terminal 5. He is listed on numerous panels including the FIDIC President’s list of dispute adjudicators, the ICC Canadian National Committee Panel of International Commercial Arbitrators, the ICDR (AAA) panel of international arbitrators, the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (USA) Roster of arbitrators and mediators and Engineers’ Ireland panel of arbitrators.
Prior to reading law as a scholar at Hertford College, Oxford, Peter was a project architect with the Building Design Partnership, a large multi-disciplinary consultancy, and gained experience and understanding of the different skills, both professional and contracting, needed to realise complex construction projects, including hospitals, retail development and military installations. He has a good understanding of building technology being, for a number of years, a visiting lecturer in building construction at what is now Oxford Brooks University and starting a degree in Chemistry and Physics before changing to Architecture. He was, for a number of years in the mid 1990s a Joint Secretary of the Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT).
Disputes on which Peter has acted, have involved:
- – Legal issues and contact interpretation.
- Development agreements.
- PFI Projects.
- Technical and scientific issues, such as paint, roofing, cladding, glazing, corrosion, mechanical and electrical and structural defects.
- Infrastructure and civil and structural engineering disputes including concrete structures, piles, roads, bridges, power stations, bio-mass facilities, airport runways, sewers, defence establishments, liquefied gas facilities, water treatment works, process engineering (biodiesel feed stock).
- Environmental (including nuclear) issues.
- Marine equipment; Railways (infrastructure, computer equipment and rolling stock)
- Professional negligence.
- Delay and programming issues and disruption and delay costs.
- Quantity surveying issues including interim and final account valuation.
- High value/specification (up to £40 million at 2000 prices) residential properties.
- Commercial agency agreements
- International commercial disputes including as arbitrator under ICC rules, LCIA rules and UNCITRAL Rules and as FIDIC dispute board.
Peter has served on committees concerned with arbitration, mediation and adjudication. He was one of the drafters of the Construction Industry Model Arbitration Rules and was involved in consultations with the Government on the Scheme for Construction Contracts. He is a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and was a member of the Commission Task Force on Reducing Time/Costs in complex arbitrations. He was, for many years, a visiting senior lecturer at Kings College, London and course director for the Arbitration and Dispute Resolution module of the MSc in Construction Law and Dispute Resolution.