The developer entered into an agreement with a contractor for the construction of a residential and commercial development.  The contract was based on the JCT ’98 with a Bill of Approximate Quantities in the sum of £4,025,000.

Disputes arose on the project with regard to:

• Extensions of time
• Loss and/or expense
• Value of final account

On completion of the project, RTI was appointed as independent experts to review the value of the final account.

RTI was engaged in 2008 to investigate a Bell 412 helicopter accident that had occurred in a remote and hazardous region of the Andes.  The wreckage had actually come to rest on a precipitous mountainside, some 3,500 feet above mean sea level. 

RTI was asked to carry out a review of the implementation of the safety management system in a shipping company. Concern had been expressed by senior management that after many years of good safety performance, a series of potentially very serious incidents had occurred. The company thought it was doing "all the right things."  So, what had gone wrong? 

RTI's client had invented and set up production of a cargo container that could collapse into a pallet-sized load for storage, or could be erected within minutes into a cargo container with sub-sections, for more effective packing of military cargo.  The construction of the container was comprised of a galvanized steel frame and screen with a grated base that could be erected without the use of screws or bolts.  Coincidentally, a competing product appeared on the market just as the client was engaged in negotiations with U.S.