Council Member
Nur Hidayah M Suhaimi

Hidayah Suhaimi is a Managing Associate of Contract Solutions I PLT (CSi). She graduated with qualifications in civil engineering and construction management in 2008 and began her career as a quantity surveyor with developers and contractors, working on residential, commercial and public works building contracts, before joining CSi in 2014.

As a senior member of CSi's dispute management team, she leads the valuation work for disputed claims in relation to work done, variations and time extensions, preparing adjudication and arbitration submissions. Since 2015, Hidayah successfully represented parties in adjudication for claims and defence valued in excess of RM150 Million.

Hidayah recently undertook her first appointment as a quantum expert witness, giving expert evidence for disputed variation works on a building construction project. Other notable recent appoints include successfully acting for a contractor in adjudication on a claim of wrongful imposition of Liquidated Damages, and a successful counterclaim against a sub-contractor post-contract termination.

Hidayah is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators UK, empanelled as an Arbitrator from the Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution, a Fellow of Quantity Surveyors International UK and the Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution, a Fellow of the Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators and the Malaysian Society of Adjudicators. She is certified to act as Adjudicator for statutory adjudication under the Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act (CIPAA) in Malaysia.