Karen is a Chartered Civil Engineer with 30 years of experience in the construction and engineering industries. She worked as a site agent and senior engineer for almost a decade before moving into construction consultancy, giving her a strong grounding for the delay expert roles that she has undertaken.
Karen has been appointed as delay expert on more than 20 occasions regarding building and power related project disputes. Karen has been cross-examined in arbitration and has a wide range of expert witness training from various institutions including the Academy of Experts, Bond Solon, the Expert Witness Institute and Pearson Education.
Karen is experienced in construction management, project planning and critical path methods of retrospective delay analysis. She has worked on expert appointments related to delay and disruption claims regarding civil engineering and building contracts from power plants in Qatar and industrial facilities in Australia to numerous buildings and infrastructure projects across Europe, the UK and Africa.
Karen is widely experienced as a site engineer and has worked on a variety of civil engineering projects across the UK. These range from marine, bridges and heavy civils projects including work on the construction of the London Eye. As a site agent, Karen was responsible for various projects, planning and organising works on site...
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With over three decades of experience, Karen Best is a "very experienced expert" who is commended by peers and clients alike for her "attention to detail and excellent communication skills" when handling major construction delay issues.