Mark Hammick
Quantity Surveyor
H.N.D. Quantity Surveying
Kingsbourne Pty Ltd
P O Box 783258
Sandton
2146
Member type: Member
Expertise:
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1994 – Present (32 years): Director, Kingsbourne (Pty) Ltd
Key Responsibility Areas: Evaluating and motivating extensions of time, variations and claims on a wide range of infrastructure projects across southern and East Africa, including major dams, freeways and inter-city roads, bulk earthworks, open-cast mining, civil and building works including “critical buildings” on power stations, various casinos and hotels in Gauteng Province South Africa, hotel and multi-story office buildings in Mauritius, a large above-ground and underground metro-rail system, pipe-works, power generation plants, and harbours. The work on open-cast mining included the preparation of variation and claims submissions relating to changed ground conditions, varied haul routes [including direction and incline], and changed stripping ratios of overburden to ore bodies.
Preparing variations and claims for adjudication, mediation, and arbitration for various construction projects in Australia, sub-Saharan Africa, West and East Africa, Mauritius, Madagascar, the United Arab Emirates, the European Union, Papua New Guinea and Japan.
1989 – Present (37 years): Expert Witness
Key Responsibility Areas: Giving evidence in South African courts on matters relating to the quantification of claims and extensions of time in mediations, adjudications and arbitrations in Australia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Lesotho, South Africa, Uganda, and Zambia. Mediations have generally been heard in terms of the relevant contracts, such as the GCC; adjudications have generally been heard under the terms of the NEC or FIDIC suite of contracts; and arbitrations have generally been heard under the arbitration provisions of FIDIC read with either the ICC, the EDF and USAID rules for arbitration, or in terms of the AA, AFSA, or UNCITRAL rules.
2005 – Present (21 years): Chairperson and/or Member, Dispute Adjudication Boards (DABs) Dispute Boards (DBs) and Dispute Avoidance and Adjudication Boards (DAABs)
Key Responsibility Areas: Completed appointments include but are not limited to sitting as a single member DB for two canal contracts and both phases of a dam contract in Eswatini and two water barrage contracts in Malawi; as a member of a three-person DAB on a contract for the construction of a significant dam in South Africa; a water supply and treatment project in Mozambique; two major dam rehabilitation contracts in Mozambique; a roads contract in the City of Tshwane, South Africa; an infrastructure contract in Limpopo Province, South Africa and a sewer infrastructure contract in Eswatini. A major water pipeline contract in the Northern Cape, South Africa, and two freeway contracts in Eswatini; sitting as a single-member DAB on the United Nations building project in Eswatini, a sewage treatment plant in Eswatini and a water treatment project in Eswatini; sitting as the chair of an ad hoc DB on a railway sub-contract and on a major freeway contract in South Africa; and sitting as a one-member DAB for the reconstruction of a wharf in central Mozambique and a jetty in northern Mozambique.
Key Responsibility Areas: Current appointments include sitting as a member of two, three-person DABs for two major bridge structures in South Africa and two DAABs for water pipeline projects in Eswatini. Also sitting as the sole DAAB member on two contracts, i.e., a pipeline network and multi-reservoir contract and a water treatment plant in Eswatini; and sitting as the chairperson of two DBs for two electrification projects in Mozambique. A recent appointment is as a member of a DAAB for the new Central Bank of Eswatini building.
2005 – Present (21 years): Arbitration Tribunal-appointed Expert
Key Responsibility Areas: Providing expert testimony on projects with a sustainability/green energy focus, including a solar plant and wind farms. Acting as an arbitration tribunal-appointed expert on a solar plant in South Africa and on two wind farms.
Early Career (1982 – 1994):
Working as a Site Quantity Surveyor on projects involving shaft sinking and tunnelling, bulk excavations, construction and expansion of reduction works and headgears, water purification installations and reservoirs, large-diameter pipelines, a hydro-electric power generation project and coal fired power stations. As regards the power generation projects, the work included the various buildings included on these contracts and internal finishing and equipping thereof. This was followed by several years of consultancy work; this consultancy work included numerous building projects including hospitals, multi-story building contracts in the Western Cape of South Africa, particularly in the Cape Town Waterfront area, the Blouberg area and the Strand beachfront.,[hotels, offices and apartments
Key Responsibility Areas: Conventional site quantity surveying functions. Briefing the Contractor’s legal team with special regard to the production of accurate site records and chronologies and the computation of the quantum for both variations and claims. Assisting with the preparation of enquiry documents for, the analysis of tenders received from, and the appointment of, Subcontractors.
Calculating the quantities of work carried out on a progressive basis up to and including final account. Calculating new rates for items of work resulting from variations and allowables and cost reports, and analysis and commentary on such reports. Assisting with contractual claims.
Resolution of claims and disputes in building works, open-cast mining, civil engineering, and mechanical installation works. Early identification of variations and claims, advising on and implementing the analysis of current and historical records in quantifying extensions of time, variations and claims after the event.
Date of preparation: April 2026
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1994 – Present (32 years): Director, Kingsbourne (Pty) Ltd
Key Responsibility Areas: Evaluating and motivating extensions of time, variations and claims on a wide range of infrastructure projects across southern and East Africa, including major dams, freeways and inter-city roads, bulk earthworks, open-cast mining, civil and building works including “critical buildings” on power stations, various casinos and hotels in Gauteng Province South Africa, hotel and multi-story office buildings in Mauritius, a large above-ground and underground metro-rail system, pipe-works, power generation plants, and harbours. The work on open-cast mining included the preparation of variation and claims submissions relating to changed ground conditions, varied haul routes [including direction and incline], and changed stripping ratios of overburden to ore bodies.
Preparing variations and claims for adjudication, mediation, and arbitration for various construction projects in Australia, sub-Saharan Africa, West and East Africa, Mauritius, Madagascar, the United Arab Emirates, the European Union, Papua New Guinea and Japan.
1989 – Present (37 years): Expert Witness
Key Responsibility Areas: Giving evidence in South African courts on matters relating to the quantification of claims and extensions of time in mediations, adjudications and arbitrations in Australia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Lesotho, South Africa, Uganda, and Zambia. Mediations have generally been heard in terms of the relevant contracts, such as the GCC; adjudications have generally been heard under the terms of the NEC or FIDIC suite of contracts; and arbitrations have generally been heard under the arbitration provisions of FIDIC read with either the ICC, the EDF and USAID rules for arbitration, or in terms of the AA, AFSA, or UNCITRAL rules.
2005 – Present (21 years): Chairperson and/or Member, Dispute Adjudication Boards (DABs) Dispute Boards (DBs) and Dispute Avoidance and Adjudication Boards (DAABs)
Key Responsibility Areas: Completed appointments include but are not limited to sitting as a single member DB for two canal contracts and both phases of a dam contract in Eswatini and two water barrage contracts in Malawi; as a member of a three-person DAB on a contract for the construction of a significant dam in South Africa; a water supply and treatment project in Mozambique; two major dam rehabilitation contracts in Mozambique; a roads contract in the City of Tshwane, South Africa; an infrastructure contract in Limpopo Province, South Africa and a sewer infrastructure contract in Eswatini. A major water pipeline contract in the Northern Cape, South Africa, and two freeway contracts in Eswatini; sitting as a single-member DAB on the United Nations building project in Eswatini, a sewage treatment plant in Eswatini and a water treatment project in Eswatini; sitting as the chair of an ad hoc DB on a railway sub-contract and on a major freeway contract in South Africa; and sitting as a one-member DAB for the reconstruction of a wharf in central Mozambique and a jetty in northern Mozambique.
Key Responsibility Areas: Current appointments include sitting as a member of two, three-person DABs for two major bridge structures in South Africa and two DAABs for water pipeline projects in Eswatini. Also sitting as the sole DAAB member on two contracts, i.e., a pipeline network and multi-reservoir contract and a water treatment plant in Eswatini; and sitting as the chairperson of two DBs for two electrification projects in Mozambique. A recent appointment is as a member of a DAAB for the new Central Bank of Eswatini building.
2005 – Present (21 years): Arbitration Tribunal-appointed Expert
Key Responsibility Areas: Providing expert testimony on projects with a sustainability/green energy focus, including a solar plant and wind farms. Acting as an arbitration tribunal-appointed expert on a solar plant in South Africa and on two wind farms.
Early Career (1982 – 1994):
Working as a Site Quantity Surveyor on projects involving shaft sinking and tunnelling, bulk excavations, construction and expansion of reduction works and headgears, water purification installations and reservoirs, large-diameter pipelines, a hydro-electric power generation project and coal fired power stations. As regards the power generation projects, the work included the various buildings included on these contracts and internal finishing and equipping thereof. This was followed by several years of consultancy work; this consultancy work included numerous building projects including hospitals, multi-story building contracts in the Western Cape of South Africa, particularly in the Cape Town Waterfront area, the Blouberg area and the Strand beachfront.,[hotels, offices and apartments
Key Responsibility Areas: Conventional site quantity surveying functions. Briefing the Contractor’s legal team with special regard to the production of accurate site records and chronologies and the computation of the quantum for both variations and claims. Assisting with the preparation of enquiry documents for, the analysis of tenders received from, and the appointment of, Subcontractors.
Calculating the quantities of work carried out on a progressive basis up to and including final account. Calculating new rates for items of work resulting from variations and allowables and cost reports, and analysis and commentary on such reports. Assisting with contractual claims.
Resolution of claims and disputes in building works, open-cast mining, civil engineering, and mechanical installation works. Early identification of variations and claims, advising on and implementing the analysis of current and historical records in quantifying extensions of time, variations and claims after the event.
Date of preparation: April 2026
Languages: English and Afrikaans