Andrew Brickell is a consulting civil engineer, project manager and construction contract specialist advisor and arbitrator, who has had more than 45 years of professional experience in 16 countries. He is based in Auckland where he is Chief Engineer (Construction Contracts) for MWH.

A significant part of Andrew's career has been spent in part-time teaching at various universities, running training for clients and for consulting organisations and he has specialised particularly in the documentation, procurement and administration of engineering contracts and their project management.

Andrew has had extensive experience with the development and use of the NZS 3910 conditions of contract on engineering projects and with other forms of contract such as the several FIDIC conditions, various Australian standards, the New Engineering Contract, and contracts used by international funding agencies such as the World Bank. He is currently a voluntary member of the Standards NZ revision committee for NZS 3910, representing IPENZ and ACENZ, and is also a voluntary member of the FIDIC Contracts Committee’s Task Group 11 on DBO contract development.