Experience Matters

On behalf of an equipment manufacturer, analyzed a $7 million claim by a contractor regarding extra work involving the structural steel installations on a new cement manufacturing plant. The analysis also involved the contractor’s claim that it constructively accelerated its work to overcome delays.

On behalf of an owner, performed a schedule quality assurance review and schedule risk assessment of the integrated master schedule for a $14 billion oil sands project.

On behalf of a contractor, analyzed its pipe fabrication loss of productivity claim on a project involving an upgrade to an existing refinery.

Provided a claims prevention training seminar for Woodside Energy.

On behalf of an owner, evaluated outstanding contractual payments, unresolved change orders, and alleged delay costs alleged by a contractor for the fabrication, transportation, and installation of Pipeline End Terminations and Jumpers for an offshore oil production facility.

On behalf of an owner, analyzed a claim associated with the placement of undersea oil and gas pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico. Prepared an expert report regarding technical issues of entitlement for cost overrun issues and substantiation of the accounting records to support the costs associated with the claim. Testified in arbitration.

Provided litigation support services on the $75 million Kaiser Hospital complex in Riverside, California. Performed detailed quantity take-offs for earthwork, concrete foundations structures and slabs, metal deck, drywall, chemical fireproofing, marblecrete, glass curtain walls, and storefront. Created a 900-activity as-bid CPM schedule to determine a reasonable project schedule. Developed a 1,100-activity as-built CPM schedule and analyzed actual manpower distribution to evaluate lost productivity issues.

On behalf of an African country, provided a rebuttal report and testimony in international arbitration regarding a claimant’s alleged value of its lost business opportunity after performing, at its own expense and risk, engineering and project development services for a port and rail project that it was not awarded. Evaluated the class of the claimant’s estimates of the project costs before and after it performed its de-risking of the project to lower project costs and determined that the estimates were inaccurate based on the information that was available to prepare the estimates. Thus, found that the claimant’s alleged project savings and its claim amount were speculative.

Prepared monthly progress reports and schedule updates for the preliminary engineering and final civil design of the $600 million Central Florida Light Rail Transit System in Orlando. Developed detailed civil design, construction and system-wide interface schedules.

Assessed the delays a contractor experienced on a bridge renovation project. Provided delay analyses and opinions regarding issues that the contractor identified that caused impacts to the project final completion milestone and that the owner allegedly caused. The assessment identified which delays were attributable to the owner's actions or inactions and quantified the number of days for which the contractor was entitled to an extension of time.