Experience Matters

Provided analysis in defense of a $7.1 million claim brought by a mechanical erection subcontractor for increased scope, delay, extended overheads, and lost productivity on a $189 million simple cycle cogeneration plant.

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.

An EPC contractor designed and supplied two 300 MW Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) boilers to replace oil and gas-fired boilers, as well as boiler islands on two units. Engaged to prepare a schedule delay analysis related to a claim filed for an equitable adjustment of the contract price on behalf of the EPC contractor against the owner. The project team later made a presentation for mediation to the owner on the EPC contractor’s behalf.

Provided scheduling support to an estimating team on a $250 million 500 MW power plant project. Developed a pre bid schedule over a 12-month period and multiple proposals through contract award. This project required extensive analysis including resource leveling through the use of resource histograms.

On behalf of an owner, evaluated the project management performance, schedule delay, and cost overrun issues on an LNG facility. Developed report for evaluation by the owner as to the feasibility of recovery from the EPCM contractor of cost overrun issues on a reimbursable contract. Evaluated the integrity of the CPM schedules and cost reporting by the contractor. Evaluated change order and schedule delay issues that the construction contractors alleged.

On behalf of a major U.S. oil company, analyzed the integrity of a Korean contractor’s EPC schedule regarding logic problems, constraints, and reasonableness of the critical path for a major petrochemical plant project.

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.

As the owner’s representative, provided technical support and status reporting on a fast-track refinery expansion project in the western United States. Work included preparing a FEL-3 cost estimate and schedule, and weekly project controls and reporting of labor hours, productivity factors, costs, changes, delays, and schedule status.

Provided litigation support for the construction cost overruns and delays for several commercial building projects including a luxury hotel and a major office building.

Prepared a detailed schedule for a two-unit “hybrid” power plant consisting of fluidized bed boilers, steam turbines, combustion turbines, and heat recovery units. Also developed multi-currency project cost systems to report consistent financial information in U.S. dollars while individual contracts fluctuated in multiple currencies.