Prof.mr.dr. Chao-Duivis

Real Estate & Housing (REH) | Real Estate & Project Management
Chair of Building Law

Monika Chao-Duivis (born in 1953) has been a full professor of Building Law at the faculty since 2004. She specialises in private law, within which she focuses especially on contract law, tendering law and liability law. Research into the consequences of new European legislation is one of the aspects she deals with, and she also carries out research into relatively new types of contract, such as DBFM contracts (design, build, finance and maintain), where traditionally different roles are combined - a building contractor who also designs, or a business that is involved in design, building operations and management work, for example. Although this type of contract is very complex, Chao-Duivis sees opportunities for using elements from them in standard building industry contracts. She gives lessons in building law and supervises students approaching graduation and PhD students, and she also writes books and articles. Relaxation of tendering law is, in her opinion, set to become an important area of research in the near future. She would like to give more lessons at the faculty, particularly to architecture students, as they will need knowledge of the law later - either when advising their clients, or when setting up their own business.

In addition to her work as a professor, she is a director of the Instituut voor Bouwrecht (building law institute), that initiates and performs independent research in the field of public and private building law. She is a mediator at the Garantieinstituut voor de Woningbouw (housing guarantee institute) and the disputes committee of the KIVI (the Royal Institution of Engineers in the Netherlands), and spends one day a month as a judge or deputy judge at the court in The Hague. On behalf of TU Delft, she sits on the board of the Stichting Expertisecentrum Regelgeving Bouw (building regulations expertise centre foundation).

Secondary employment:

• Managing Director Institute for Construction Law 
• Substitute Councilor The Hague Court
• Member of the editorial board of Journal of Construction Law
• Member of the Supervisory Association for Procurement Law 
• Member of the editorial board of The International Construction Law Review
• Secretary of the European Society of Construction Law
• Chairman of the Board of Appeal and Objection of the Foundation Building Quality
• Member of the Permanent Professional Education Review Committee of the BNA
• With some regularity Arbitrator at the Disputes Committee of the KIVI
• Supervisory Board Member Development Spoorzone Delft BV
• Member of the Court of Arbitration for Construction
• Board of Architectuur Lokaal