Dr David Tawfik is a chartered materials and forensic engineering expert whom is regularly retained as an expert witness for litigation and arbitration proceedings to investigate construction failures, manufacturing defects, industrial accidents, engineering disputes including malperformance of structures, plants and machinery. Dr Tawfik has been appointed as a Court Referee for the Federal Court of Australia in relation to a complex multi-disciplinary construction dispute in the water sector. He has also prepared a forensic failure expert report for the International Court of Arbitration (Paris) at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in relation to a multi-national dispute arising from the construction of a major power plant overseas.Dr Tawfik's applied research and scientific approach has enabled all his clients understand the actual root cause of an incident based on factual evidence and engineering principles in laymen terms. He has published technical papers and presented at international conferences in welding, metallurgy, residual stresses, non destructive examination and heat treatments.