Experience Matters

Provided schedule and damages analysis services and prepared a $1.2 million claim for a contractor that built a grocery store. Responsible for auditing and recoding invoices and timesheets, preparing a cost variance analysis and calculating damages, recreating the as-built schedule, and identifying and apportioning delays.

Prepared a contractor’s $250,000 change request for delay and disruption associated with structural, mechanical, and electrical design changes in the construction of a correctional facility.

Prepared CPM fragnets depicting schedule delays. Analyzed productivity losses on a natural gas liquefaction project.

On behalf of an owner, analyzed an EPC contractor’s schedules for a multibillion-dollar GTL facility. Verified the schedule work scope against contract requirements. Evaluated schedule metrics, reviewed schedule logic, assessed the reasonableness of the critical path and provided recommendations for schedule optimization. Also evaluated a cumulative impact claim.

On behalf of an owner, evaluated its claims against an engineering and construction contractor for defects in its installations and late completion of the work. Prepared an expert report, but the case settled before the arbitration hearing.

The mechanical subcontractor executed a contract with a power contractor to complete outage work and repowering of CFB Unit #1. The power contractor caused project delays and interferences that delayed the required work to a period outside of the specified outage period and resulted in a shortage of manpower. The mechanical subcontractor accelerated work to maintain the work planned for the outage period. This required additional coordination of utilities and steam blows and functional tests of fuel system, oil-fired burners, CFB boiler, air ducts, flue gas system and stack, feed water systems, etc. Engaged to provide claims review services. Evaluated owner and contractor claims, including a review of the CPM schedule submittals. Produced a schedule delay and productivity analysis to determine responsibility for project delays. The claims team found that power contractor delays and interferences were primarily responsible for the acceleration effort and difficulties experienced by the mechanical subcontractor during the mechanical completion and operational testing phases of work.

On behalf of an owner of an LNG plant, assessed an EPC contractor’s expert’s quantification of costs incurred at the module fabrication yards and the contractor’s quantification of its management personnel costs during the delay period. Prepared two expert reports submitted as part of arbitration proceedings.

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.

On behalf of an owner, analyzed a Japanese contractor’s $35 million change order, delay, and loss of productivity claims on an LPG FPSO project that was fabricated in Japan and installed in Angola.

Prepared entitlement and damage analyses for a hydroelectric pumped storage facility. Performed financial analyses and wrote expert reports.