Why is this topic relevant? Why would a practitioner be interested or need to know about this?

1. Current context of increased costs and longer delivery times and direct impacts on practice income, resources and possibilities for future work
2. Knowledge, considerations and mitigations
3. Procurement and construction strategies
4. Disagreements, disputes and dispute resolution
5. What helps to avoid disputes, improve predictability of income, resources and future work?

Learning outcomes:

• Currency of knowledge
• Critical importance of communication
• Familiarity with procurement and contracts
• Awareness of dispute resolution and options, and what these mean
• Issues that can be controlled and limiting the impact of those that cannot

Kathy Gal 

Kathy is a chartered architect in private practice with over 20 years’ design and construction experience in the UK, Europe, the Middle and Far East.
Masterplanning experience includes developments in the UK, and university accommodation in Bahrain and Oman. Cultural sector experience includes a mosque for 2000 in Oman. Kathy has extensive experience of residential developments and has completed projects in Central London.
She has been involved in dispute resolution since 1998 and is a member of RIBA Panel of Adjudicators.
Kathy participates regularly in university architectural education and is a member of RIBA Validation Panel. She is an External Examiner for RIBA North, Leeds Beckett, London Metropolitan and Nottingham Universities, and previously for Cambridge, Westminster and Birmingham City Universities, the AA and Dublin Institute of Technology.
Kathy has previously been Head of Professional Practice at the AA and Part 3 Course Director/Professional Skills Lead at London South Bank University.