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ICE dispute services are the gold standard in adjudication under the NEC contract. We also offer industry-leading excellence with other standard forms of contract such as JCT, FIDIC and the Infrastructure Conditions of Contract.
ICE provides both early intervention conflict avoidance for engineering and construction projects as well as a class-leading dispute resolution service. We nominate and appoint adjudicators, arbitrators and mediators.
Advance Notice – The ICE Dispute Resolution Service will be closed from Friday 20 December 2024 and reopen on Thursday 02 January 2025.
We apply the same rigour and care to our arbitration, mediation, dispute board, expert and dispute avoidance services.
Our dispute resolution professionals are skilled in law, civil engineering, quantity surveying, commercial management, architecture, structural, mechanical and electrical engineering and building services. They have themselves undergone the most rigorous assessment processes.
The ICE independently nominates our dispute resolvers for dispute resolution on behalf parties to maintain impartiality.
To ensure complete impartiality within our nominations we nominate from a cab rank and choose the dispute resolver based on the specifications provided by the applicant.
The ICE dispute resolution service, runs a multi-disciplinary service that includes lawyers, surveyors, architects, structural, mechanical and civil engineers. The ICE Dispute Resolution Register: Welcome Guide contains all the relevant information to support your application to the dispute resolution registers.
The ICE dispute resolution service welcomes enquiries from potential candidates who consider they are suitable for admission to the Register but whose career path has been different to that described to support this the ICE dispute resolution service, run a free mentor and pupillage scheme. Please contact the dispute resolution service for further information.
Candidates must have a passion for ensuring that the ICE continues to enhance and maintain its reputation as a learned society and provider of services in the field of construction dispute resolution.
Parties may use adjudication with or without legal or other representation.
The Pledge was initiated by several of the UK’s leading professional bodies for construction and engineering, together they form the Conflict Avoidance Coalition Steering Group.
Becoming a Pledge signatory signals to clients and suppliers that:
When you sign you will be listed on the online Conflict Avoidance directory.
Your organisation will be listed on the Conflict Avoidance Directory as Bronze, Silver or Gold,
The Pledge was initiated by several of the UK’s leading professional bodies for construction and engineering.
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