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Robert Gerrard BSc(Hons), FRICS, FCInstCES, NECReg

• Senior NEC Consultant and Secretary, NEC Users’ Group
• Accredited Mediator
• Dispute Resolution Adviser
• Honorary Advisor to the Hong Kong Adjudication Centre
• Senior Certified Adjudicator at the International Dispute Resolution & Risk Management Institute

Robert specialises in NEC contracts, both setting these up and successfully managing them. He has 41 years’ experience in contract management and carries out training and consultancy around the world. Robert is based in Hong Kong and works as a Senior NEC Consultant for Thomas Telford Limited.

He is an examiner for the Institution of Civil Engineers Certificate in Law and Contract Management course and has also held the position of NEC Users’ Group Secretary from 2006 to date. Robert was an NEC4 Contract Drafter, part of the NEC3 contracts working group and an Accredited NEC4 ECC Project Manager.

Robert is also an Accredited Mediator through the London School of Mediation, registered through the UK Civil Mediation Council and is a member on mediation panels in UK, Hong Kong and New Zealand. He is currently studying an online Master in Laws (LL.M.) degree programme in Mediation and International Commercial Dispute Resolution at Newcastle University, UK.

Robert’s publications include NEC3 and NEC4 Compared (2017), NEC2 and NEC3 Compared (2005), joint author in NEC4 Avoiding and Resolving Disputes (2019), NEC4 Practical Solutions (2017) and NEC3 Practical Solutions (2015).

Peter Colacino

• NSW Project Strategy and Delivery Portfolio Lead – Mott MacDonald
• NEC Contracts Ambassador – ANZ – NEC Contracts

Peter Colacino is an internationally recognised infrastructure and built environment thought leader.

His twenty years career spans government, industry and academia, having worked delivering and operating some of Australia’s largest infrastructure networks as well leading major strategy, research and policy initiatives, such as the 2021 Australian Infrastructure Plan and 2019 Australian Infrastructure Audit and the Infrastructure Australia Market Capacity Program.

Peter currently works at the forefront of progressive change in the Australian infrastructure sector leading the Mott MacDonald Project Strategy and Delivery Portfolio in NSW as well as advocating for collaborative contracting as the NEC Contracts Australia-New Zealand Ambassador.