Open to NEC Asia Pacific Users' Group members and non-members alike this workshop enabled delegates to network and interact with one another, mixing group discussion with informative tutoring, presentations and case studies throughout the day.
Mark Lyddon is Turner & Townsend Brechin’s Director of Infrastructure, based in their Hong Kong office. Mark relocated from London in August 2013 to support Hong Kong’s infrastructure clients. Mark has worked in the construction industry for over seventeen years, working initially for contracting organisations and for the past ten years with Turner & Townsend.
Mark has worked with a variety of infrastructure clients, across the transportation and utility sectors. Mark has spent a significant time working with the UK’s water companies. These privatised organisations, manage multi billion dollar capital delivery programmes across their assets. Their regulators and customers have demanded increasing value for money and have forced these organisations to deliver construction projects efficiently.
The frontier water companies have evolved their procurement strategy from traditional lump sum or remeasurement contracts to incentivised, partnering contracts. Mark has been involved from the early adoption of the NEC form of contract and supported these service providers to change their capabilities and cultures to operate NEC based contracts across their supply chains.
Mark has managed teams of consultants to provide procurement strategy advice, Project Management roles and commercial support to clients operating the NEC contracts.
Phil is a chartered builder with a 40-year career in programming and management of construction projects. Since 1992 his work has included forensic analysis for resolution of time-related disputes. To this end he has given advice and prepared expert reports on programming for matters subject to a variety of proceedings. He has also given evidence at hearings in arbitration and litigation as well as acting as parties’ technical representative (expert advisor) in mediation and conciliation.
Originally from a general contracting background he took up consultancy in programming for construction project design and management in 1985. Projects up to 1998 generally included public and private buildings and process facilities. In 1999 Phil relocated to Hong Kong and has since then led organisations focussed on analysis, advice and opinions required for dispute resolution in the region. Projects have generally been large scale infrastructure, frequently transport-related but also including process and commercial or residential buildings.
His research interest is on 'appropriate' programming to match the range of construction project or dispute management needs and he is a well-known speaker and occasional writer on the subject in the location.