Expertise you can trust at every stage of your project.

Your leading partner for advisory and expert services.

At SOCOTEC Forensics & Advisory, we provide expert witness, dispute resolution, and quantity surveying services to the construction and engineering sectors worldwide. Our team supports projects at every stage – from real‑time project delivery to complex dispute resolution proceedings.

Our reputation is built not only on what we do, but how we do it. Independent industry research consistently describes our experts as methodical, organised, and highly effective. We are recognised for developing the next generation of experts and valued for our measured, reasonable approach to delivering expert opinion.

We use our experience and expertise to quickly identify the core of an issue and produce clear, concise reports and opinions that distil complex matters. Each member of our team is committed to implementing robust, repeatable, industry‑accepted methodologies and upholding the highest standards of analytical rigour.

With experience spanning sectors and regions worldwide, we remain dedicated to providing bespoke, client‑focused support backed by technical excellence and unwavering integrity.

Our history in the UK

In March 2012, Duncan Hughes‑Phillips founded Base Quantum, a quantum expert witness and quantity surveying practice dedicated to delivering ‘quality in quantity’.

The excellence and quality of Duncan and his team’s work resulted in repeat appointments across the UK and internationally. In 2013, our expanding team moved to a London base at Aldwych House.

In 2015, Tom Taylor joined the practice. Since then, Tom has become a leading quantum expert in his own right and a leader of SOCOTEC’s quantum expert practice.

By 2020, Base Quantum had opened its fifth office, with locations covering London, the Midlands, the North West, Ireland, and the South East.

In May 2022, Base Quantum joined SOCOTEC UK, forming SOCOTEC Advisory and relocating to Queens House alongside SOCOTEC’s other business units. This strategic union supported our growth aspirations and created unique opportunities for collaboration across the built environment.

Since joining SOCOTEC, our services have expanded. We now offer delay, project management, fire engineering, structural engineering, and other specialist technical expert witness services, complementing our quantum expertise.

Our team continues to grow strategically, enhancing our comprehensive service offering and enabling us to deliver innovative expert services while remaining committed to consistency, training and development of new experts, and technical excellence.

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Our expertise

Tailored solutions for our clients

  • Expert Witness: Our trusted expert witnesses are appointed worldwide to provide independent opinion on quantum, delay, and technical matters across all major dispute resolution forums. We deliver robust analysis, clear reporting, and credible testimony.

  • Advisory and Dispute Resolution: Our team’s extensive experience enables us to support clients proactively – identifying project issues early, providing strategic advice, and helping to avoid disputes wherever possible. When disputes do arise, we offer bespoke support to help resolve them efficiently.

  • Quantity Surveying: Our team delivers cost and commercial management on projects across the UK, supporting clients from early planning through to completion and handover. We provide the insight needed to maintain cost certainty and achieve successful project outcomes.

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  • Expert Witness: Our trusted expert witnesses are appointed worldwide to provide independent opinion on quantum, delay, and technical matters across all major dispute resolution forums. We deliver robust analysis, clear reporting, and credible testimony.

  • Advisory and Dispute Resolution: Our team’s extensive experience enables us to support clients proactively – identifying project issues early, providing strategic advice, and helping to avoid disputes wherever possible. When disputes do arise, we offer bespoke support to help resolve them efficiently.

  • Quantity Surveying: Our team delivers cost and commercial management on projects across the UK, supporting clients from early planning through to completion and handover. We provide the insight needed to maintain cost certainty and achieve successful project outcomes.

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