Areas include: Adjudicator, adjudication, architect, architects, architecture, building, buildings, building defects, commercial developments, cavity barriers, contracts, construction, construction contracts, construction adjudication, construction site audits, construction projects, cladding, defects, design and build.

CDM, CDM Regulations, Construction (Design and Management ) Regulations, EWS1, external walls, external wall surveys, fire, fire matters, fire risk assessments, fire risk assessor, fire safety order, health and safety, JCT contracts, risk assessments, Principal Designer, The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, retail developments, residential developments, shopfitting, site audits.

I also now have The Cardiff University Bond Solon Expert Witness Certificate. I will accept press enquiries. I am also on the National Register of University Certified Expert Witnesses.

I am a Chartered Architect, Chartered Arbitrator, an Accredited Adjudicator, and Expert. I am also a registered expert with the Royal Institute of British Architects and is a practising member of The Academy of Expert Witnesses.

In 1994, I qualified as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, became a Chartered Arbitrator of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in 1999 and undertook in 2014 the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration.

I can support legal teams with expert witness evidence in disputes relating to:

Contract disputes.
Building defects.
Professional negligence.
Cladding and external walls.
CDM Regulations.
Fire matters.

Sectors covered:
Hotels.
Residential.
Commercial offices.
Retail.
Restaurants.

Bernadette’s scope of work encompasses the various roles associated with the CDM Regulations, dispute management, fire safety, and health and safety.