Prolonged construction disputes often waste valuable time and money. Increasingly, it seems that traditional processes like litigation are not often the best route. In many cases, alternative dispute resolution can provide more useful and cost-effective means of resolving construction and property disputes.
This is where the RICS Dispute Resolution Service can help.
Solving property and construction problems
The RICS DRS offers a complete range of methods for resolving disputes including: adjudication, expert determination, expert witness, arbitration and mediation. Independent and with more that twenty years’ experience, the RICS DRS takes on many thousands of appointments from all over the globe each year.
Our dispute resolution services.
The RICS DRS is one of the world’s largest providers of alternative dispute resolution services within the global construction industry. We offer a complete range of methods for resolving disputes including:
Using the resources of our members, we can help resolve disputes in areas relating to land, property and construction, including:
- Rent reviews on business premises
- Lease renewals
- Agricultural tenancies
- Building contract and sub-contract disputes
- Land boundaries and neighbour ‘disputes’
- Disputes arising out of the dissolution of partnerships
- Landlord and tenant matters including dilapidation, insurance disputes, maintenance and service charges
- Commercial property rent reviews
- Construction
- Fees and service charges
- Valuation (including insurance claims and home valuations for divorce settlements)
These are only a sample of matters that the RICS Dispute Resolution Service can assist with. If you have any dispute that is related to property, land or construction, the RICS Dispute Resolution can give you some practical advice on where to turn.
Adjudication
Adjudication is common method used to resolve disputes used within the construction industry. It is relatively simple, efficient and straightforward. A suitably qualified adjudicator is appointed to review an adjudication application and with reference to the relevant security of payment legislation can make a decision on the dispute that is binding on the parties.
The RICS Dispute Resolution Service offer a number of adjudication services throughout the Oceania region.