Stephen Rae is a senior managing director and leads FTI Consulting’s construction solutions practice in Australia, and is based in Perth.

Stephen is a chartered quantity surveyor with over 30 years’ consulting experience in construction and engineering. For over 20 years he has specialised in dispute management, expert witness services and providing claims and contractual advice to the construction, engineering and offshore oil and gas industries in the UK, Asia Pacific and Australasia. 

Stephen specialises in the preparation and analysis of contractual claims for delay, disruption and variation valuation in relation to oil and gas platforms, LNG plants, mining facilities, power plants, nuclear installations, pharmaceutical plants, railways, tunnelling and offshore marine projects. He has acted as lay advocate in arbitration and mediation proceedings and is frequently appointed expert witness in disputes concerning project delay, disruption and contentious variations.

Stephen’s consulting career began in 1990 as a mechanical and electrical surveyor with a large cost consulting organisation in the UK. He relocated to Hong Kong in 1994 and in 1999 became a senior consultant with an international firm of construction contract consultants specialising in dispute management. Stephen has since held several senior director positions at major contract advisory consultancies. He has undertaken specialist appointments to the oil and gas, power, rail and civil construction sectors across the world including Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam. Stephen relocated to Australia in 2010 and joined FTI Consulting in 2012.

Stephen holds bachelor’s degrees in law and quantity surveying. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

WWL says: Stephen Rae is recognised for his well-established disputes practice and enjoys a superb reputation among peers and clients for his first-rate expert witness work.

Stephen Rae is a senior managing director and head of FTI Consulting’s construction solutions practice in Australia.

Stephen is a chartered quantity surveyor with over 35 years’ experience in the construction and engineering industries. For the past 25 years he has specialised in the provision of cost management, change valuation and forensic delay analysis services to owners, contractors and their legal advisers. His services have been provided in both contentious and non-contentions situations, in relation to commercial developments; roads; railways; airports; tunnels oil and gas platforms shipbuilding LNG plants pipelines mining facilities power plants desalination plants nuclear installations defence installations pharmaceutical plants and marine civil projects.

Stephen first testified as an expert in 2000 in Hong Kong in relation to a dispute arising out of a hotel development in Macao. He has since received in excess of 25 expert witness appointments on construction quantum and/or delay matters and has given oral expert testimony in several jurisdictions including Australia, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore and Taiwan, before domestic and international arbitral tribunals.

Stephen frequentley lectures on subjects relating to the preparation and assessment of construction claims, delay analysis methodologies and methods of evaluating the impact of change on resource efficiency.

Stephen holds bachelor’s degrees in both law and quantity surveying. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and a RICS-accredited expert witness.

WWL says: Stephen Rae is a long-standing player in the market who draws recommendations for his exceptional understanding of project delay and disruption and his abilities in both contentious and non-contentious mandates.

Stephen Rae is a senior managing director of FTI Consulting’s construction solutions practice in Australia, and is based in Perth.

Stephen is a chartered quantity surveyor with over 30 years’ experience in the construction and engineering industries, 22 years of which have been as a specialist in dispute management, expert witness services and the provision of claims and contractual advice to the construction, engineering and offshore oil and gas industries in the UK, Asia Pacific and Australasia regions.

Stephen specialises in the preparation and analysis of contractual claims for delay, disruption and variation valuation in relation to oil and gas platforms, LNG plants, mining facilities, power plants, nuclear installations, pharmaceutical plants, railways, tunneling and offshore marine projects. Stephen has acted as lay advocate in arbitration and mediation proceedings and is frequently appointed as expert witness in relation to disputes concerning project delay, disruption and contentious variations.

Stephen’s consulting career began in 1990 as a mechanical and electrical surveyor with a large cost-consulting organisation in the United Kingdom. Stephen relocated to Hong Kong in 1994 and in 1999 became a senior consultant with an international firm of construction contract consultants specialising in dispute management. Stephen has since held several senior director appointments for major contract advisory consultancies, undertaking specialist appointments to the oil and gas, power, rail and civil construction sectors in a range of countries including Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam. Stephen relocated to Perth, Australia in 2010 and joined FTI Consulting in 2012.

Stephen holds bachelor’s degrees in both law and quantity surveying. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

WWL says: Stephen Rae is a highly regarded construction consultant who earns plaudits for his strong expert witness practice.