Experience Matters

On behalf of an owner, performed an assessment of a contractor’s performance and construction productivity, an evaluation of the contractor’s target cost to complete a natural gas pipeline project, and quantification of costs associated with removing and replacing defective pipe.

Assisted a contractor in resolving a dispute related to design changes and late and deficient owner-supplied materials. Prepared and reviewed notice letters and provided input for negotiations for a combined heat and power (CHP) project aimed to replace two old boilers and two steam turbines from an existing power plant. Proposed installed capacities for the project were 450MW of thermal heat and approximately 30MW of electricity. The thermal heat was supplied to an oil refinery and a petrochemical plant within the same site while electricity was supplied to the grid. The project also produced demineralized water.

Performed a schedule quality assurance review. Reviewed and critiqued a consortium partner’s detailed fabrication schedules. Ascertained the suitability of the schedule to be used as a tool to analyze concurrent delays by maintaining CPM schedule logic to properly understand the client’s, and the consortium partner’s liability for delay, disruption, and impact damages, and any relationship between proceeding activities being the responsibility of other parties. Provided guidance on “best practice” recommendations for on-site schedule control, progress reporting, schedule development, and labor productivity. Recommended suitable effective documentation and record keeping to aid in the support or defense of possible future claims and integration of schedule activities with available cost details to accurately establish the cause and effect relationship among problems, issues, events, schedule impacts, productivity losses, and cost overruns and/or the need for acceleration/mitigation recovery countermeasures.

Provided claims analysis services for an insurance company regarding the reconstruction of a natural gas plant in British Columbia following an explosion. Performed a schedule analysis to determine when plant reconstruction could have been completed absent the improvements to the facility that the owner made.

On behalf of an owner, reviewed the EPC contract and the project management and project controls procedures for risk identification issues. Provided a claims management and prevention seminar. Also reviewed the EPC contractor's baseline schedule to identify logic and other problems.

On behalf of an owner, prepared an expert report defending against a contractor’s claim associated with disputed change orders, delay, and loss of productivity on a new refinery debutanizer unit.

Prepared a contractor’s baseline schedule and schedule updates for the construction of a $5 million church and related site work.

Provided dispute resolution services on a $100 million Stanford University Hospital modernization project in Palo Alto. Performed document discovery and reviewed 200,000 project documents. Utilized R:Base to create a 40,000-row document database and cost allocation model. Developed a job cost/variance model used in computing compensable client damages. Determined the validity and entitlement for $6 million outstanding change orders. Assisted in the development of graphic work products for mediation and assisted in the successful mediated settlement of all outstanding claim issues.

On behalf of an owner, provided litigation support for a nuclear power plant project involving assessment of cost overruns, delays, inadequate QA/QC documentation, and defective electrical and instrumentation installations.

On behalf of an electrical contractor, evaluated cost overruns resulting from change orders and extra work claims on a training facility at Fort Carson Air Force Base.