Mr. Arthur T. House is a nationally and internationally recognized construction and business advisor, standing advisor, conflict avoidance specialist, and dispute resolution professional, bringing 46+ years of executive leadership across construction, engineering, finance, real estate, and renewable energy. With involvement in projects valued at over $2.5 billion, he provides strategic advisory, construction management consulting, risk management, and practical solutions. His expertise includes contract management, negotiation, strategic planning, and proactive conflict prevention. Through standing advisory services, he helps business owners, developers, contractors, and executives.
For more than forty-six years, Arthur House has worked with organizations, owners, executives, and people from many different industries in senior leadership and advisory roles. His roles have included Owner/Developer, Owner’s Representative, President, Chief Financial Officer, Board Member, Chair, Strategic Business Development Executive, Project Manager, and Construction and Engineering Management Consultant.
Throughout his career, Mr. House has worked in construction, engineering, finance, business development, strategic management, contracts, risk management, and dispute resolution. His professional experience includes projects and client relationships worth more than $2 billion. These have included construction and real estate development, transportation, forestry, export logistics, renewable energy, humanitarian work, and other complex business projects.
Through this wide range of experience, Mr. House has developed a basic principle that continues to guide his executive advisory practice: successful executives do not make decisions simply to decide who is right or wrong. They make good and informed decisions based on what is right for the organization, what is good for the people involved, and what best protects the company’s long-term interests.
Mr. House believes that many expensive legal disputes do not start as legal problems. They start as business decision-making problems—a conversation that was misunderstood, an expectation that was not clear, a contract that was unclear, an issue that was not noticed, a communication problem, or a project decision made under pressure. As these situations continue, relationships get worse, people take stronger positions, trust is lost, and there are fewer chances to find a practical solution.
By the time attorneys become involved, the original business problem may already have become a claim or lawsuit. Mr. House believes the better question often should not have been, “Who is right or wrong?” but instead, “What is the right thing for the business to do, and what can be done now to solve or prevent the problem?”
That difference is the foundation of his executive advisory practice.
Mr. House does not provide legal advice and does not try to replace his clients’ attorneys, project executives, risk managers, or leadership teams. Instead, he works as an independent executive advisor who provides experienced and objective judgment when the stakes are high, the situation is complicated, and the best way forward is not clear.
His role is to give management an experienced point of view before a disagreement becomes a claim, before a claim becomes a lawsuit, and before important business relationships are unnecessarily damaged.
Depending on the situation, Mr. House may help leadership teams review difficult business decisions, help people have difficult conversations, find practical solutions before legal positions become fixed, review project or contract concerns, or simply provide an independent opinion based on many years of direct executive experience.
His goal is not to help a company win a lawsuit. His goal is to help companies avoid unnecessary lawsuits in the first place.
Mr. House believes that organizations spend significant resources on planning, estimating, scheduling, implementation, quality control, safety, financial management, risk prevention, and operations because experience shows that prevention is usually more effective and less expensive than fixing a problem later. He believes the same approach should be used for business conflict.
The cost of one lawsuit that could have been avoided may be greater than the cost of preventing many disputes from ever reaching that point. More importantly, unnecessary conflict can cause much more than legal expense. It can damage relationships, take away management time, hurt project performance, harm a company’s reputation, disrupt important business goals, and reduce business value in ways that may never appear on a balance sheet.
Mr. House’s goal has therefore remained the same throughout his career: to help organizations achieve their goals while finding practical ways to avoid unnecessary conflict and protect the relationships and important business interests that successful companies depend on.
Arthur T. House is a nationally and internationally recognized construction and business advisor, standing advisor, construction management consultant, conflict avoidance specialist, and dispute resolution professional with more than 46 years of executive-level experience across construction, engineering, real estate development, finance, transportation, forestry, and renewable energy. His international experience spans the United States, Hawaii, the Caribbean, The Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, Aruba, Costa Rica, Haiti, Venezuela, Japan, South Korea, China, and the European Union.
Mr. House has served as an Owner/Developer, Owner’s Representative, Strategic Business Development Executive, Project Manager, Construction and Engineering Management Consultant, CEO, President, and CFO. His expertise includes strategic planning, feasibility studies, contract negotiations, construction management, project oversight, and turnkey completion.
With involvement in projects valued at more than $2.5 billion, he brings extensive knowledge of project financing, contract administration, cost control, risk assessment, and business strategy. He advises owners, developers, contractors, executives, and commercial stakeholders on complex challenges. Combining practical industry experience with business and legal education, including an MBA, doctoral studies, and a law degree, Mr. House emphasizes risk mitigation, effective communication, collaborative problem-solving, and informed decision-making.
His standing advisory services help clients prevent conflicts, address contractual issues, minimize delays and expenses, protect commercial interests, and achieve sustainable outcomes. Through strategic counsel and objective analysis, he helps organizations strengthen project performance, manage uncertainty, and pursue long-term success in national and international markets.
Arthur House is a nationally and internationally recognized construction industry advisor, mediator, standing construction industry neutral, and dispute resolution professional. He has more than forty-six years of executive-level experience in construction and engineering management and has worked with clients and projects across the continental United States, Hawaii, the Caribbean, The Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, Aruba, Costa Rica, Haiti, Venezuela, Japan, South Korea, China, and major companies in the European Union.
His professional experience has included work as a principal Owner/Developer, Owner’s Representative, Strategic Business Development Executive, Project Manager, and Construction and Engineering Management Consultant. His work has covered projects from the original idea and development stage through construction, implementation, and turn-key completion.
Mr. House has represented and advised business owners, landowners and developers, construction managers, general contractors, specialty contractors and subcontractors, vendors, and other businesses. His clients and professional relationships have included construction management, engineering, forestry, transportation, export logistics, renewable energy, real estate development, and other commercial businesses.
Using more than four decades of direct executive and operational experience, together with his legal and business education, Mr. House provides advisory, conflict avoidance, mediation, and dispute resolution services that are designed to address complex business and construction issues from both a business and practical point of view.
Mr. Arthur T. House is a nationally and internationally recognized standing advisor, conflict resolution specialist, and dispute avoidance professional with 46+ years of executive-level experience in construction, engineering, business leadership, contracts, and project management.
He helps owners, developers, contractors, and organizations identify potential conflicts early through strategic advisory, proactive risk management, effective communication, and collaborative problem-solving. His expertise includes construction dispute avoidance, contract and claims management, negotiation strategy, project risk assessment, eminent domain, right-of-way negotiations, and alternative dispute resolution.
Through independent, experience-driven guidance, Mr. House supports informed decision-making, protects business interests, reduces costly disputes, preserves professional relationships, and promotes practical, commercially sound solutions.
His philosophy emphasizes early intervention, constructive negotiations, and preventing disagreements from escalating into litigation. Through ArthurHouse.com, he provides
strategic standing advisory, conflict avoidance, and dispute resolution support focused on business continuity and lasting outcomes.
Mr. House’s background also includes extensive academic and teaching experience. For more than twenty years, he has served as an adjunct professor and faculty member teaching undergraduate and graduate-level courses in construction and engineering management, business development, strategic management, corporate finance for construction and development, international business development, construction contracts, and business and contract law.
His academic and professional background brings together executive leadership, construction operations, financial management, legal knowledge, strategic planning, and dispute resolution.
Mr. House has also provided professional expert witness testimony in support of law firms and their clients as they work toward fair and practical solutions to complex controversies and disputes.
Arthur House is a Member of the Maine Association of Mediators and a Certified Mediator in the Judicial Branch for the State of Maine. He is also an Adjunct Law Faculty Member and serves as a statewide Right-of-Way Negotiator in eminent domain procedures.
He is the founder and President of the Construction Management Institute of Maine and Miami, established in September 2001.
Throughout his career, Mr. House has also given significant time to public service and humanitarian work. He has provided extensive pro bono professional services in response to natural disasters and humanitarian needs, including work connected with the Government of Haiti following the devastating 2010 earthquake.
His professional philosophy has always focused on service, integrity, responsibility, compassion, practical leadership, and the belief that experienced advice should be available before situations become unnecessarily expensive or adversarial.
Mr. Arthur T. House brings more than 46 years of executive leadership, strategic standing advisory, construction and engineering management, business development, negotiation, financial oversight, and dispute resolution experience. He provides independent, objective guidance to help organizations make informed decisions, manage risks, prevent conflicts, protect business relationships, and resolve complex challenges.
His expertise includes construction advisory, conflict avoidance, alternative dispute resolution, contract and claims management, strategic negotiations, project risk assessment, and collaborative problem-solving. Through practical insight and professional judgment, Mr. House helps executives, developers, contractors, and business leaders identify potential problems, strengthen communication, assess options, and pursue commercially responsible solutions.
His multidisciplinary experience across construction, engineering, real estate, finance, and business operations supports effective decision-making and proactive dispute prevention. As a construction and business advisor, standing construction industry neutral, conflict avoidance specialist, and dispute resolution professional, he emphasizes early intervention, accountability, transparency,
His mission is to minimize unnecessary costs, preserve professional relationships, and support lasting solutions. Through ArthurHouse.com, Mr. House continues his commitment to service-driven standing advisory, construction dispute avoidance, strategic guidance, and practical business solutions that help organizations navigate uncertainty with clarity, confidence, and purpose.
