Lecturer in Construction Management (since 2003) and specialising in legal issues in construction and contract administration. Michael is an expert in the New South Wales statutory adjudication system, which is one of two statutory systems (along with the UK model) upon which all other international systems are based. He is an Appointed Adjudicator for New South Wales and Victoria, and an advisor to the NSW Department of Commerce on matters relating to the performance-based assessment of the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999. Michael has published extensively on statutory adjudication internationally, and is a former joint-winner of the FBE Research Excellence Awards Team Research Prize for an outstanding record of leadership in research (2006).
Michael is a founding Coordinator of the CIB International Task Group on Statutory Adjudication in Construction (TG67, est. 2007), and a founding Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the International Journal of Law in the Built Environment (Emerald, est. 2008). He is also a Member (Elect) of the Panel of Peer Reviewers for the Construction Law Journal (Sweet and Maxwell). Michael is an external reviewer for numerous international refereed journals, and for the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong. Michael is currently the Convenor of the FBE Human Research Ethics Advisory Panel.
Teaching
Postgraduate
CONS0010 Contracts Management and Law
Undergraduate
BENV2814 Real Property Law
BLDG1281 Construction Law
BLDG3281 Construction Contract Administration
Recent Publications
Papers & Book Chapters
Uher, TE. & Brand, MC., 2008, 'The impact of New South Wales security of payment legislation on clients, contractors and subcontractors', in Proceedings of BEAR 2008 Building Resilience, eds Richard Haigh and Pilanthi Amaratunga, Kandalama, Sri Lanka, UK, pp. 1274 - 1286
Brand, MC. & Uher, TE., 2008, 'Review of the performance of security of payment legislation in New South Wales', in Proceedings of COBRA 2008, eds Brown, S., Dublin, Ireland, Republic of, UK,
Uher, TE. & Brand, MC., 2008, 'Claimants' veiw of the performance of adjudication in New South Wales', in Engineering, construction and architectural management, , pp. 470 - 484.
Uher, TE. & Brand, MC. 'The Evolution of Adjudication Law in the Construction Industry in New South Wales'. In: Proceedings of CIB World Building Congress 2007 - Construction for Development. South Africa, CIB World Building Congress, pp. 2245 - 2260 2007.
Uher, TE. & Brand, MC. 'An Examination of the performance of statutory adjudication in New South Wales after 2000 determinations'. In: Proceedings of CME25:Construction Management and Economics: Past, Present and Future. University of Reading, UK, CME 25 Conference, University of Reading, UK, 2007.
Uher, TE. & Brand, MC. 'A comparative analysis of the operation of `compulsory rapid adjudication` in New South Wales and New Zealand'. Construction Management and Economics 2007; 25(7): pp. 765 - 775.
Brand, MC., 2005, 'The development of negligence law throughtout the Commonwealth in relation to purely economic loss and defective structures', in CD-ROM: QUT Research Week 2005, eds A.C.Sidwell, Brisbane, Australia, Australia, pp. 614 - 625
Brand, MC. & Uher, TE., 2005, 'Analysis of the trends in adjudication in New South Wales', in CD_ROM: 1st International Conference on Construction Engineering and Management - ICCEM 2005 Globalisation and Collaboration in Construction, eds Yea-Sang Kim, Seoul, Korea, Republic of Korea, pp. 687 - 692
Uher, TE. & Brand, MC., 2005, 'Analysis of adjudication determination made under the security of payment legislation in New South Wales', in International Journal of Project Management, vol 23 No 6(1st), pp. 474 - 482.
Brand, MC., 2004, 'Restitutionary Quantum Meruit and Wrongfully Repudiated Contracts in the Australian Construction Industry', in Sustainability and Innovation in Construction and Real Estate, eds Xing Wu, Yanan Ma, Jiankang Zhou, Qi Zhao, Stephen Kong, Franky Wong & Jacky Chung, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China, pp. 185 - 197
Brand, MC. & Uher, TE., 2004, 'Assessment of the Performance of the Security of Payment Act in the Australian Construction Industry', in World Building Congress - Building for the Future, eds , Toronto, Canada, Ottawa, Canada, pp. 250 - 258
Brand, MC. & Uher, TE., 2004, 'Adjudication Determination in Australia', in Proceedings of the Association of Researchers in Construction Management 20th Annual conference, eds Farzad Khosrowshahi, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, University of reading, United Kingdom, pp. 661 - 670
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