Ian Salisbury

• Ian is a qualified: Arbitrator, Mediator

General Information

Ian Salisbury is a chartered architect and chartered arbitrator based in Oxford, with twenty years experience of dispute resolution in the UK construction industry and overseas. He has provided services in several hundred cases ranging from differences over a few pounds to over $100m. He remains active in his primary profession, also providing his opinions as expert witness. His appointments have included settling differences in:

$ building contracts, delay, payment;
$ professional services, negligence;
$ building defects, fire damage, landscape;
$ copyright, intellectual property.
$ defamation

65% of his cases have reached amicable resolution. In practice, Ian uses every opportunity to encourage parties to reach a swift and amicable resolution of their differences.

Education

St Catherine’s College, Oxford (MA) and the Oxford School of Architecture (DiplArch).

Professional

$ Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Royal Society of Ulster Architects
$ Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
$ Founder Member of: the Society of Expert Witnesses, the Architects' Law Forum, the Construction Contracts Mediators’ Group and the Adjudication Society
$ Arbitrator member of the Society of Construction Arbitrators
$ Member of the Cathedral Architects’ Association and the Ecclesiastical Architects’ and Surveyors’ Association

Appointments

$ Arbitration panels, member of:
The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators’ Construction Industry panel; The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators' NHBC panel; The Royal Institute of British Architects List ‘A’.
$ Adjudication Panels: member of:
The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators’ panel; The Royal Institute of British Architects’ list; The Construction Industry Council’s list.
$ Registered with the Law Society as an expert witness

Consultative appointments

$ College Architect, Pembroke College Oxford
$ Cathedral Architect, Leicester Cathedral
$ Consultant, Electricity Authority of Cyprus
$ Oxford Diocesan List of architects

Professional involvement

$ RIBA 1989-95 Member of Council (nationally elected)
$ RIBA 1991-93 Honorary Secretary; Trustee of the British Architectural Library
$ CIC 1991-93 Director and Member of the Construction Industry Council
$ RIBA 1997-1999 Chair of the RIBA President's Advisory Committee on Arbitration
$ RIBA 1997 onwards. The Adviser to the Royal Institute for all insurance, professional liability and dispute resolution matters. Member of the editorial team of the RIBA Journal’s practice pages
$ Society of Construction Arbitrators - Honorary Secretary and Treasurer 2001-2004
$ Examiner for adjudicators at the RIBA, the CIArb and the RSUA
$ Representative of the RIBA on the Liability Task Force of the Construction Industry Council, 2000-2003
$ Elected member, the Architects Registration Board, 2003-2005