Genge Construction Adjudication and Consulting
What is Genge Construction Adjudication and Consulting about?
Genge Construction Adjudication and Consulting was formed to provide disputants with a fast, cost-effective way to bring closure to construction and professional negligence disputes.
Whether you prefer arbitration, mediation or an independent expert neutral evaluation of your claim or potential claim, Our processes are fast, affordable, and low anxiety.
This is possible because the expertise is real, and includes decades of hands-on in the field of building and transportation system evaluation, costing, and design. This expertise is combined with decades of adjudication - often with unrepresented parties.
Gerald R. Genge,
P.Eng., LL.M., B.A.Sc., C.Arb., Q.Med., BSS, BDS
Principal
Jerry is a professional engineer with more than 45 years’ of experience working primarily in the building and transportation sector. He has a Master of Laws degree from Osgoode Hall Law School specializing in dispute resolution, is a member of the ADR Institute of Ontario and was designated a Chartered Arbitrator and Qualified Mediator by the ADR Institute of Canada. He was among the first to be appointed by the Ontario Dispute Adjudication for Construction Contracts as an Adjudicator under the Construction Act. He is a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario Registration Committee hearing appeals from persons facing denial of a license to practice engineering in Ontario.
In 2016 he was appointed to the Real Estate Council of Ontario Complaints and Discipline Committee.
He was a mediator and adjudicator with the Condominium Authority of Ontario Condominium Authority Tribunal On-Line Dispute Resolution panel.
Jerry is a strong proponent of dispute resolution of technical issues guided by persons with subject matter expertise and evidence-driven findings.
EDUCATION
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LL.M. (A+, Dispute Resolution) Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, December 2022.
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B.A.Sc., (Honours), University of Toronto, 1975.
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Ontario Dispute Adjudication for Construction Contracts – Stitt Feld Handy – November 26, 27, 2019
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Advanced Certificate in Adjudication for Administrative Boards and Tribunals, May 2019.
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·Osgoode Hall Law School/York University – Ontario’s New Construction Act: New Prompt Payment and Adjudication Regimes, April 29, 2019.
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Osgoode Hall Law School/ York University - Ontario’s New Construction Act: Transitioning & Applying the Modernization Provisions December 7, 2018.
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·The Advocate’s Society Construction Law: Arbitration and Adjudication Advocacy April 27, 2018.
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Society of Ontario Adjudicators and Regulators - Front Line Adjudicator Training – April 5 - 6, 2016.
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Construction Law, Toronto Construction Association, 2005.
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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.
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University of Toronto, 1994, Arbitration I. 1995, Arbitration II.
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Queen's University, Executive Development Program, September - October 1992, Certificate in Quality Management.
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University of Wisconsin-Extension, November 1983 - Bridge Inspection and Evaluation.
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University of Toronto, 1984, Building Science-Post-Graduate Course.
Professional Engineer (P.Eng.)
Chartered Arbitrator (C.Arb.)
Qualified Mediator (Q.Med.)
ODACC Adjudicator (ODACC)
OUR MISSION
In a landscape that is often too costly, too slow, too onerous, and too complicated, GA breaks away from the conventional and resolves disputes in a fast, cost-effective, and understandable way.
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.