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David Barker

First Name: 
David
Last Name: 
Barker

Special Expertise:

Forty plus years’ professional experience in the international construction arena strategizing clients Project Management activities by optimizing and realizing time and cost savings through extensive experience in contract management, change management, dispute resolution, job costing, estimating, bidding, scheduling, sub-vendor coordination and stakeholder management as project director, contract & commercial director, expediter and claims consultant, working for owners, design professionals and contractors on a wide range of public, institutional and private sector projects throughout the United Kingdom, Middle East, Africa and South East Asia.

Skilled in the areas of:

• Contract management & administration

• Claims entitlement & valuation

• Job costing & estimating

• Claim presentation & defense

• Quantity Surveying

• Sub-vendor coordination

• CPM scheduling

• Delay & interference determination

• Quality assurance management

Project Experience:

Ranging up to $20 billion in value from full on-site project direction to construction administration and claims management comprising:

• Light rail & subway transit systems

• Airports • Military bases

• Water & waste water treatment plants

• Reticulation networks

• Hospital & medical facilities

• Bio medical research laboratories

• Power stations

• Schools & technical colleges

• Luxury condominiums

• Correctional institutions

• Hotel casino resorts

Professional Qualifications:

• RICS Diploma Quantity Surveying (1987)

• BSc Building Economics & Quantity Surveying (1987)

• Diploma Business Studies (1976)

Professional Since: 
Jan-1979 (45.3 yrs experience)
Oldest experience: 
Sep 2007 (16.7 yrs experience, WARNING: 28.7 years variance with Professional Since)
Years Experience: 
10

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