Experience Matters

Performed damages and schedule analyses for a contractor in a $1.3 million dispute with its earthwork and utilities subcontractor. Submitted an expert report that asserted $300,000 in damages and defended a $1 million counterclaim. Prepared all damages and schedule analyses and provided testimony in both deposition and arbitration. The contractor received a favorable award.

Provided cost estimate analysis and contract analysis for a single family luxury custom home located on the Florida coast.

On behalf of an EPC contractor, analyzed delay and acceleration claims on the EPC of an ammonia plant project.

On behalf of a contractor, analyzed schedule delays on a naval facility electrical substation project including: outage delays, switchgear design deficiencies, SCADA design deficiencies, and ground mat deficiencies.

Prepared an expert report regarding disputed change orders, delay, and project management performance on an expansion of a county jail.

On behalf of an owner, performed an assessment of a Change Order Request for Labor Productivity Impacts and Extended General Conditions Cost. The assessment revealed that the contractor did not follow the MCAA instructions on the use of MCAA’s Labor Factors found in MCAA Management Methods Manual Bulletin No. PD2 (Revised 2011). The assessment also identified that the claim for General Conditions Cost was not supported by any schedule analysis and was a total cost claim even though there were numerous executed change orders, which included a 14 percent markup for supervision, quality control, and safety.

Prepared an extension of time claim for a Japanese contractor. The claim related to the construction of civil, structural, and building design work on a chemical plant project in the UK. Late access to the site and additional and modified work impacted the contractor’s execution of the work.

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.

On behalf of a design firm, evaluated the technical validity and associated damages associated with alleged defective engineering and equipment design for the Pinal Energy Ethanol Plant Project.

Analyzed and presented schedule impacts and litigation support services for a public schools district in defense of a general contractor’s claims on four elementary schools.