Experience Matters

On behalf of a contractor, prepared a response to an owner’s experts’ reports for an ICC arbitration in London regarding the reasonableness of a bid estimate and the cost to complete an airport project.

Developed the Baseline CPM Schedule for the $136 million FDR Drive reconstruction project. The schedule was cost and resource loaded with 2,344 activities.

Assisted a general contractor in a $2 million dispute with the owner of a 200 MW power plant in New Brunswick. Issues involved increased labor costs associated with late delivery of owner-supplied equipment, late design information, and defective design information. The case was settled during negotiation on terms favorable to the client.

A hospital facility was badly damaged during a major hurricane. Provided full insurance claim review services. Worked with claim adjusters to assess and review actual damage and required construction repair services. This involved a full construction assessment of building, services, and medical equipment damages including time/costs and rectification budget for repair and/or total replacement of facility.

Performed a schedule risk assessment on an oil refinery in the Middle East that was undergoing a major expansion and upgrade to increase its capacity. The EPC contractor's work was significantly behind schedule, and the parties were contractually obligated to have an independent schedule risk assessment. Our scope of work included an assessment of the quality of the three EPC contractors' schedules, an evaluation of trends in progress and schedule data, and a Monte Carlo schedule risk analysis to predict when the EPC contractor would achieve startup of the various units of the refinery.

Performed a schedule analysis of delay claims between a general contractor that performed engineering, procurement, construction, mobilization, installation, and operation of an FPSO including topsides processing equipment as well as hull and marine system, and the O&M service contractor on the FPSO to deploy in an offshore area approximately 10 km off the coast of Mexico at a water depth of approximately 32 meters.

Evaluated the merits of a schedule delay claim submitted by a pipe fabricator on a GTL project in Nigeria. Also assisted the owner in settlement negotiations.

Prepared damages analyses on a dispute on a steel mill expansion project. Responsible for a unit price variance analysis and estimating costs for civil, concrete, mechanical, and electric work.

Performed an analysis in support of an owner’s claim against an international EPC contractor’s performance, delays, and $100 million cost overrun regarding a Spar production facility that was fabricated in Finland for installation in the Gulf of Mexico. Issues involved material delays, welding rework, quadrupling of labor man-hours, wet mating of hard and soft tank/truss, delay, liquidated damages, conversion of contract issues, and related damages.

On behalf of an owner, performed an audit of the EPCM and general contractor’s cost records to identify potential billing discrepancies and problems on cost reimbursable contracts for a calciner expansion project.