Family Name

OkamotoFirst Name

TakashiCountry of Residence

JapanAddress

14-10, 4-Chome, Harayama,
Midori-ku,

Saitama,

Japan

PC:

336-0931
Date of Birth

27 July 1953

Tel. Number

Mobil phone: +81 80 37271683

E-mail Address

okamoto.wrk@gmail.com

Professional- First Class Civil Engineering Works (Execution Managing Engineer),

Qualifications,

Japan

Membeship- Listee of Dispute Board Adjudicator Japan List (since 2011)- Member of Engineering and Consulting Firms Association (Since 2011)- Member of Dispute Resolution Board Foundations (Japan Chapter)- Member of Society of Construction Law (UK)
-Academic Education- BSc (Akita University, 1976) Civil Engineering Course- MSc (Hokkaido University 1978) Environmental Science- Master Course of Construction Law and Arbitration, King’s
College ,University of London (one year attendance 1989)

Legal & Dispute Training

Legal and Dispute Training :- Dispute Board Experienced User & Practitioner Workshop (DRBF2016)- Introduction of International Arbitration (CIArb 2012)- DB Adjudicator Assessment Workshop (2010)- DB Adjudicator Training Workshop (2010)- Training Course of Practical Use of FIDIC Contract and Managementof Claim and the Resolution of Dispute (Module 1 & 2 (2010) )- Trainee at Stapleton Construction & Commercial Services, Nottingham,UK (1987-1989)
1Position Held

2015-to dateJapan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Infrastructure Engineering Department - Senior Advisor

2010 - 2015

Nihon Suido Consultant - Technical Advisor

1978 - 2010

Hazama Corporation- General

Manager,Contract

Administration

Department- General Manager, International Civil Engineering
Department.
- Project Manager, Mexico Branch- Project Manager, Latin America Branch- Manager, Cost Estimate & Tendering Section
Experience•He started his business carrier in 1978, both in contraction
management and in project supervision, he experienced in tunnelling
projects, hydroelectric power plant projects of surface andunderground construction, several plant construction projects (powerplants and cement production plant), water related projects (potable,waste treatment and water pipe lines), etc.

•He has extensive knowledge on project management, e.g., project
organization, quality management, safety management, schedulemanagement, claim and dispute management.

•He experienced in drafting tender documents, including Instruction toTenderers, Conditions of Contract and Specifications, tendering of
public works and its evaluations.

•He currently works for Japan International Cooperation Agency(JICA), gives professional opinions and advices on various issues of;- Bidding procedures of infrastructure projects- Bidding document and formats- Interpretation of conditions of contracts- Giving internal seminars and classes (FIDIC MDB Conditions,
Yellow Book, ENAA Plant Conditions)- Providing consultations for JICA Grant projects.

•Since 2016, as vice chairperson of ECFA Contract Administrator
Training Committee, he provides frequent seminars and workshop
relating to contract management, FIDIC Conditions of Contracts andDispute Board.
2•2016 – 2018 He was appointed as the DRBF JAPAN country
representative. During the period, he organized frequent gatheringsand meetings among the people who were interested in Dispute
Adjudication. Specialized lawyers, engineers from consulting firms,
construction

companies

andengineering

companies

wereparticipated.
Current

Employment-Senior Advisor, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

StatusParticularTechnicalExperience
Standard

Tunneling Projects, Plant and Water Related Projects.
Construction Management

Form

Contract Familiarityof

FIDIC Conditions of Contract MDB 2010 (Pink Book)
FIDIC Conditions of Contract for Construction 1999 (Red Book)
FIDIC Conditions of Contract for Plant and Design-Build 1999 (YellowBook)
FIDIC Conditions of Contract for EPC/Turnkey Project 1999 (SilverBook)
FIDIC Conditions of Contract for Construction 2017 (Red Book)
FIDIC Conditions of Contract for Plant and Design-Build 2017 (YellowBook)ENAA Model Form of International Contract for Process Plant 1992

Speech & Lecture• Basic Course of Construction Contract, OCAJI (Overseas Contractors
Association of Japan Inc.) (2009 & 2010)• Contract

Administrators

Training

Course,ECFA (EngineeringConsulting Firms Association) (annually from 2014)• Introductory Course of FIDIC Conditions, ECFA (annually from 2016)• Contract Administrators’ Training Seminar ECFA (annually from 2020)• Dispute Board Dissemination Conference, DRBF/JICA/ECFA/OCAJI(annually from 2016)• Intensive Course on Construction Management, Nagasaki University(2017, 2018)• Let’s FIDIC Webinars (10 series), JICA
• Various Seminars of FIDIC MDB and Yellow Book for Execution
Agencies and JICA Staff
Language Capability

English (fluent)3

Spanish (hearing and reading)Japanese (mother tongue)
Publication

Co-Translator of Standard Specification for Tunneling (NATM) (2000)

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