Rhiann Storey , BA BSc LLM FRICS FCIArb MAE
Rhiann Storey is a French-speaking chartered quantity surveyor with sixteen years’ experience across a variety of clients, markets and projects. Her dual qualifications give her a solid base from which to provide a range of services to clients, with a focus on dispute resolution services, for both live and completed projects.
As a practising member of the Academy of Experts (TAE), she has been instructed as quantum expert on a number of occasions and provided quantum and entitlement assessments for claims and independent expert reports used in adjudication, mediation, arbitration and litigation proceedings. Rhiann has also had several adjudication decisions published.
She has project experience both for contractors and clients spanning multiple sectors including healthcare, education, oil and gas, mining, power, industrial, defence, retail, residential, sports and recreation, entertainment, and heritage.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Experience
- Aquenta Consulting (2011 - 2017)
- Pyments Ltd (2007 - 2011)
Membership
- Fellow, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS)
- Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb)
- Practising Member, Academy of Experts (MAE)
Qualifications
- LLM Dispute Resolution (2021)
- BSc Commercial Management and Quantity Surveying (2011)
- BA Law with French (2002)
- Advanced Professional Award in Expert Witness Evidence (APAEWE) (2019)
- Certificate in Adjudication, QBCC (2017)
- Certificate in Adjudication, NSW (2021)
Education
- University of Aberdeen (2021)
- University of Wolverhampton (2011)
- University of Aberystwyth (2002)
- Legal Experience Training (2019)
- Contract Administration Group Australia (2017)
- ABC Dispute Resolution Service Australia (2021)
2 Contributions by Rhiann Storey
PRACTICE NOTES
JCT Bills of Quantities (2024): Measurement (NRM2), Contractual Status, Pricing and OHP, Variations, Provisional Sums, Risk Allocation and Dispute Avoidance
This Practice Note explains the roles performed by bills of quantities (‘BoQs’) under the JCT forms of contract, the matters parties ought to weigh up and the contents of BoQs, alongside some hands-on pointers. It concentrates on the 2024 editions of the JCT forms, while noting that comparable provisions appear in earlier versions. The JCT describes Contract Bills (eg in clause 1.1 and the Second Recital, JCT Standard Building Contract With Quantities 2024) as ‘the fully priced bills of quantities referred to in the Second Recital’. In broader terms, BoQs are schedules setting out units, quantities, rates and totals for items of work, materials, components and labour, itemised in line with an industry‑recognised standard method of measurement. Typically prepared by the Employer’s consultant, they are derived from the drawings and specifications issued at tender. They accompany the tender so that all contractors can price on an identical basis and ensure comparability of pricing across bidders. The distinction between the JCT notion of Contract Bills and BoQs is that JCT is pointing to the completed, returned BoQs that underpin the Contract Price, as opposed to the unpriced BoQs circulated at tender...
Construction
PRACTICE NOTES
JCT Information Release Schedules: purpose, drafting and incorporation; programme interface, contractual status and SBC 2024 duties; managing EOT and loss and expense risks; practical guidance on contents, updates and disputes
This Practice Note outlines the nature and purpose of the Information Release Schedule (IRS), how it operates within JCT contracts, and key practical points to bear in mind when deploying the IRS and embedding it in a JCT agreement.
Information Release Schedule
Under JCT, the IRS—see, for instance, the fifth recital of the JCT Standard Building Contract Without Quantities—sets out which information the Architect or Contract Administrator will issue, together with the timing of that release. In effect, it functions as a programme governing the orderly flow and delivery of design information.
An IRS is required on a project where comprehensive design data is not available at the tender documentation stage, or will still be incomplete by the time the contract is executed. This arises most acutely on fast‑track schemes, where external drivers—typically determined by the project’s business case, for example a harvest deadline on a manufacturing scheme—fix the completion date, and design must proceed in tandem with early construction activities to achieve that date. Whilst commonplace on fast‑track work, the IRS is also encountered on many other projects...
Construction
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