About Us
The Australian and New Zealand construction market share is more than $300 billion. A recent report suggests it spends up to 2.6% of its costs on disputes.
This equates to about $7.8 billion……on disputes.
Can we make that number approach zero? Probably not. But imagine improving the efficiency of resolving disputes by just 10%. That’s a $780 million saving. Straight to your bottom line.

In addition, those numbers do not take into account the broader impact of disputes on the following:
- Your reputation
- Your relationship with your delivery partner
- The mental health of your team
- Repeat business
- Staff retention
Our founders have amassed over 70 years of experience in our industry and over 30 years in helping organisations like yours avoid or properly resolve disputes. We have worked in our industry, and we understand:
- How construction projects are put together
- The challenges you face
- The disputes and disagreements that can arise
- The mistakes that can easily be made
- and we also understand:
- The negative attitude of some organisations, which serves to create problems rather than solve them

500+
Clients helped
1000+
Training courses delivered
70+
Years combined experience
90%
courses With 5 *

Our Mission
Our mission is to:
- Improve your current systems
- Train your people
- Review your contracts
- Resolve your disputes.
We are committed to helping you achieve better outcomes for your construction projects. We aim to put you in a better financial position than before you appointed us.
We stand against those that seek to disrupt the flow of a construction project, who create problems rather than resolve them, who cause disputes and disruption on your project and then profit from you.
We stand for you, our partners, and making our industry a more collaborative, effective, efficient and much-improved place to do business.
Our Approach
Our approach is unique. Whatever you need us to do, we’ll quickly get to the nub of the issue and address it. We won’t waste your time and money dealing with extraneous matters or focusing unnecessarily on process and procedure. We will work with your existing resources and use your people as much as possible, under our guidance, to deal with your issue so you’re not incurring unnecessary costs engaging outside experts, solicitors, counsel, delay analysts and so on. We partner with many organisations who provide those services, so they can be supplied through us as a ‘one-stop shop’ if necessary.
For more information about our approach to specific issues, visit our services page.

How will this help you?
By achieving our primary outcome…..that you do not need our services from us in the future. But don’t just take our word for it….
The nature of our work means many of our clients remain confidential. Here are some of the things they have said:

Great work. Steven and Raine really got to the nub of the issue quickly
Anonymous

Revolutionary ideas, impressive execution
Anonymous

Steve is great to work with, he brought a fresh approach to a dispute which led to it
being resolved quickly
Anonymous

Raine trained our commercial team and it is already improving our profit
Anonymous

Concordia Resolution helped us implement collaborative contracting for us and our
delivery partners
Anonymous

Concordia’s training is spot on. Their subject knowledge is extensive & they get that across by using a lot of real-life anecdotes & lots of examples.
Anonymous
Why the name Concordia Resolution?
We’ve all heard of the stages of team formation first proposed in 1965: forming, storming, norming, and performing. Disagreement is an essential part of this process. Not everyone will agree on how to execute a project, so providing everyone involved with a psychologically safe environment to express their opinion is essential.
We can only implement an effective project management plan by collating those diverse opinions. Therefore, how we respond to this disagreement is crucial. This ‘task conflict’ should not develop into a ‘relationship conflict’; we must be able to resolve these task conflicts without reverting to emotions.
In other words, we must resolve all conflicts and disagreements (whether big or small) harmoniously.
Concordia is the Latin word for harmony. This is where we come in: we assist in the harmonious resolution of conflict, whether it is conflict with a small ‘c’ or a Conflict with a big, unmissable, expensive ‘C’.
Who are we?
AUSTRALIA

NEW ZEALAND

Steven and Raine are supported by strategic alliances with a broad range of organisations allowing us to provide a wide range of services:

CIArb
Professional dispute resolution body

EQ Strategist
Creating resilient workplace culture

RICS
Professional construction body

Anvelo
Project Advisory and consulting

Certitude Australia
Training and consulting

Built Intelligence
Training Acadamy and Contract Management Platform

Strategic Planning
Expert planning and project control service

Halliant
Expert planning and project control service

NEC Contract
The gold standard in collaborative contracts

CInstCES
Professional construction body

Construction DRB
Dispute resolver appointment service

CIOB
Professional construction body
One final note, if we work for you, then we cannot work against you, so you need to be quick….