Du Preez Kirstein

Du Preez has over 17 years of experience working for some of the largest engineering and construction companies in the world. His experience spans across multiple sectors including transport, infrastructure, building, power generation, oil and gas, petrochemical, mining and others throughout Africa, the Middle East and Asia Pacific.

Du Preez has provided both prospective and contemporaneous planning support for live projects as well as specialist forensic delay analysis and expert report development services to clients contemplating formal dispute resolution processes (arbitration and litigation) or seeking reasonable evaluations for amicable settlement.

Du Preez is not only technically proficient in all forms of delay analysis, but also commercially astute, having worked on projects adopting various popular contracting frameworks (FIDIC, NEC, JCT, JBCC etc.). His formal training on these matters further enhances his ability to identify parties’ contractual obligations which may affect project delivery and/or proving/defending their entitlements to time and costs.

Du Preez is actively involved within the claims and project management communities, enabling him to be stay up-to-date with the most recent developments. To this effect he holds long-standing chartered memberships with the Academy of Experts, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Institute of Construction Claims Practitioners, as well as being honored with fellowships at the Association for Project Management and the Australian Institute of Project Management.