Binnington, Chris Dunscombe

Chris is a registered Professional Engineer and from 1997 until 2010 served as Chairman of the Association of Arbitrators of Southern Africa and is an Honorary Life Fellow and currently a Director of that Association. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and, for four years, served as Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee of the Engineering Council of South Africa.

Familiar with all of the recommended CIDB forms of contract and have presented many hundreds of days of training on FIDIC, GCC, NEC and JBCC. One of the Engineers involved with drafting GCC 2010. Conducted over 150 arbitrations and adjudications and appeared as counsel in over 60 arbitrations

Adjudication expertise:

Chris Binnington has, since 1996 when the New Engineering Contract was introduced into South Africa by ESKOM, specialised in the process of adjudication both from the perspective of training others in the process and in practicing in the field. He has developed a one-day training course on adjudication which has now been presented to over 400 people in Southern Africa. He is a member of the panels of adjudicators of Transnet, ESKOM, the South African Institution of Civil Engineers (SAICE) and The Association of Arbitrators (Southern Africa).

Arbitration expertise:

Chris has acted on behalf of Employers, Main Contractors or Sub Contractors, as counsel in more than 100 arbitrations involving, building, civil engineering (roads and earthworks) and process plant disputes. He has been appointed as arbitrator in some 30 arbitrations including an international arbitration involving the Government of Uganda as one of the parties under UNCITRAL Rules.

In May 2016, and after selling the practice he jointly founded, to an International Construction Group, he moved to Cape Town but continued to act as Adjudicator and Arbitrator. In November 2017 together with Civil Engineer and forensic delay analyst, David Jamieson, He formed a new consulting practice under the style and title “Binningtons”, operating out of the original Binnington Copeland & Associates offices in Rondebosch, Cape Town, which firm continues to offer professional services to the construction industry in the fields of claims and disputes and forensic delay analysis. In the latter part of 2017 Binningtons opened offices in Johannesburg.