Biography

Matt Mortazavi has 35 years of hands-on experience in general contracting, construction, and project management. He is a licensed professional civil engineer in British Colombia, Alberta, and Ontario, as well as an arbitrator, mediator, referee, and adjudicator of construction disputes.

Matt has experience in residential (low- and high-rise) construction, infrastructure (including railway transit, underground services, roads, highways, and ICI development projects), and health and civil defence projects, with construction budgets ranging from $50,000 to $300 million. He also has experience with construction risk management, forensic construction/engineering investigations, procurement and claims analysis, negotiation, delay claim preparation and rebuttal, and contract preparation, amongst other things.

Matt is a Fellow of CIArb and an Accredited Construction Adjudicator in both the London and Canada Branches. He has served on the CIArb Canada Board of Directors since 2019, and also served on the Construction Adjudication Program Committee, having previously earned a postgraduate diploma in construction adjudication in London.

Matt is a Chartered Arbitrator (C.Arb.) with ADRIC and is a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators. He is on the list of expert mediators approved by the Government of Canada, is a member of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation in the US, and is a Certified Adjudicator and Fellow of the Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution. Matt is also a Fellow of the Institute of Construction Claims Practitioner (ICCP), where he sits on the registered panel of claims practitioner.

Matt has successfully conducted over 80 construction mediations and over 35 binding arbitrations, construction adjudications, and referees. As a construction claim consultant and practitioner, Matt has prepared delay claims for general and trade contractors valued in the millions of dollars. He has also provided numerous expert opinions on construction, engineering, and contractual interpretation related to residential, ICI, and heavy construction projects.

Since 2013, Matt has taught construction law and contracts as an adjunct professor at George Brown College’s Centre for Construction and Engineering Technologies. In 2017, he created the Construction Business Management course, which he teaches when required. Matt has given seminars on construction law and contracts to several government organizations, including the County of Simcoe, City of Hamilton, and Limestone District School Board. Matt also volunteers as a member of the Board at TFS–Canada’s International School, where he chairs the Sustainability and Property Committee, advising and guiding the senior school management on construction-related projects and the current $64 million expansion of the Mississauga and Toronto campuses.

On 26 June 2023, Matt was invited as an expert panelist to speak at the United Nations during the Geneva Global Forum on Artificial Intelligence, addressing the topic of AI and the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs).

Matt is fully bilingual in English and French, and is conversational in Spanish.

Contact

Mortazavi Construction Consulting Inc.
206-80 Sheppard Ave. W.
Toronto, ON M2N 1M2

E: matt@mortazavi-inc.ca
T: +1 416 224 2200
www.mortazavi-inc.ca