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What is Genge Construction Adjudication and Consulting about?

I started Genge Construction Adjudication and Consulting to provide a fast, cost-effective way to bring closure to construction and professional negligence disputes.  Most smaller claims simply cannot afford the cost, time, and anxiety of today's civil claims process.  If you are not satisfied with the slow process and high fees from other ADR professionals, you have come to the right place.

Whether you prefer arbitration, mediation, or an independent expert neutral evaluation of your claim or potential claim,  I will use my 45 years of design, construction and forensic engineering expertise to set a ​process to achieve finality in a way that is fast, cost-effective and has low-anxiety.  

This is possible because the expertise is real; it  is based on hands-on in the field of building and transportation system evaluation, costing, and design, and my help in settlement of 100s of cases. 

Lawyers need not be involved because my experience includes decades of adjudication - with unrepresented parties.   But if lawyers are involved, they will see that I understand their expectations about fairness and application of the law.

Gerald R. Genge,
LL.M., B.A.Sc., P.Eng., C.Arb., Q.Med., BSS, BDS, ODACC Adjudicator

Principal

  • Professional engineer with more than 45 years’ of experience working primarily in the building and transportation sector,

  • Master of Laws degree from Osgoode Hall Law School specializing in dispute resolution,

  • 30+ year Member of the ADR Institute of Ontario and ADR Canada,

  • Chartered Arbitrator and Qualified Mediator by the ADR Institute of Canada,

  • ODACC Adjudicator since 2019,   

  • Member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario Registration Committee hearing appeals from persons facing denial of a license to practice engineering in Ontario,

  • Adjudicator since 2016 for the Real Estate Council of Ontario Complaints and Discipline Committee,

  • Past mediator and adjudicator with the Condominium Authority of Ontario Condominium Authority Tribunal On-Line Dispute Resolution panel,

  • Strong proponent of dispute resolution of technical issues guided by persons with subject matter expertise and evidence-driven findings, and

  • Author of the book, "The Expert Witness".

EDUCATION

  • Pursuing a Doctoral degree in online education.

  • LL.M. (A+, Dispute Resolution) Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, December 2022.

  • B.A.Sc., (Honours), University of Toronto, 1975.

  • Ontario Dispute Adjudication for Construction Contracts – Stitt Feld Handy – November 26, 27, 2019

  • Advanced Certificate in Adjudication for Administrative Boards and Tribunals, May 2019.

  • Osgoode Hall Law School/York University – Ontario’s New Construction Act: New Prompt Payment and Adjudication Regimes, April 29, 2019.

  • Osgoode Hall Law School/ York University - Ontario’s New Construction Act: Transitioning & Applying the Modernization Provisions December 7, 2018.

  • The Advocate’s Society Construction Law: Arbitration and Adjudication Advocacy April 27, 2018.

  • Society of Ontario Adjudicators and Regulators - Front Line Adjudicator Training – April 5 - 6, 2016.

  • Construction Law, Toronto Construction Association, 2005.

  • Ontario Society of Professional Engineers Courses toward BCIN, Large Buildings – May 2005, Building Code Act, for Registered Code Agency – May 2005, Building Structures – June 2005.

  • University of Toronto, 1994, Arbitration I. 1995, Arbitration II.

  • Queen's University, Executive Development Program, September - October 1992, Certificate in Quality Management.

  • University of Wisconsin-Extension, November 1983 - Bridge Inspection and Evaluation.

  • University of Toronto, 1984, Building Science-Post-Graduate Course.

The whole package:

 

  • Professional Engineer (P.Eng.)

  • Chartered Arbitrator (C.Arb.)

  • Qualified Mediator (Q.Med.)

  • ODACC Adjudicator (ODACC)

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THE MISSION

In a landscape that is often too costly, too slow, too onerous, and too complicated, GA breaks away from the conventional and allows disputants to get back to their lives, businesses, and families having achieved a fair cost-effective result.

CORE STRENGTHS:

Subject Matter Expertise

Knowledge of building design and construction from foundations to roofs.

Understanding Claims Processes

For decades we advised legal teams on how to best fashion statements fo claim, defense, and cross claim.

Efficiency

From the earliest stages of a case, we will find ways to speed up the resolution process, be it settlement, adjudication, or contract specific performance.

Anxiety Reduction

Disputes can be nerve-racking.  Our approach focusses on making the parties as comfortable as possible while building confidence in our simplified and understandable processes.

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