Experience Matters

Provided cost and CPM scheduling services on a City of Las Vegas Traffic and Communication project. Developed and monitored resource-loaded completion schedules for the remaining work. Performed a retrospective CPM schedule analysis to prove change order impacts to the critical path of the project. Used activity-based costing techniques to appropriately allocate extended corporate and project overhead costs due to a 6-month suspension period. Performed productivity studies and provided resource and cost projects used for cash flow and cost-to-complete purposes. Successfully performed change order pricing and negotiations ($750K) with the owner for numerous design impacts.

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.

Prepared monthly progress reports and schedule updates for the preliminary engineering and final civil design of the $600 million Central Florida Light Rail Transit System in Orlando. Developed detailed civil design, construction and system-wide interface schedules.

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

On behalf of an EPC contractor, analyzed the technical entitlement of over 400 change orders associated with an engineering and construction contractor’s $60 million claim on a magnesium oxide production plant. Determined the cause-effect relationships among the changed work and the resulting schedule impact and additional costs. Provided expert testimony at an ICC arbitration hearing in London. The contractor alleged that the FIDIC-based contract provided relief under the Variations clause. However, the owner argued that it was a fixed price contract, and no relief was available. Also analyzed the cause-effect relationship of improper operation by the owner and resulting poor magnesium oxide production from the facility.

Provided support to management team including schedule coordination, review and development of Baseline CPM Schedule for the $87 million Roosevelt Avenue/74th Street reconstruction project. The schedule was resource loaded with 3,200 activities.

On behalf of an EPC contractor, analyzed change order, delay, and loss of productivity claims on a linear alpha olefin project.

Prepared an expert report for an ICC arbitration in London concerning a refinery project in Iraq.  Prepared analyses and provided opinions regarding the delays that occurred during the project and the parties responsible for the project delays.  Prepared analyses and provided opinions concerning the validity of the costs the contractor incurred as a result of terminating its subcontracts and executing new subcontracts with replacement subcontractors.

Prepared main design-build contractor’s delay and disruption claim with additional associated costs for the Madina Centrale Project for The Pearl Qatar due to major changes in the structural and architectural design by the consultant and client. Testified concerning the validity of the delay analysis and the resultant cause-effect on the project completion date and the reasonableness and validity of the additional costs claimed by the design-build contractor.

On behalf of underwriters, as a result of a potentially insured event, evaluated whether other causes of schedule delay to the shutdown and refueling of a nuclear power plant would have caused concurrent delays to the project. Participated as a member of the Loss Adjuster’s Team of experts concerning a $140 million property damage claim and a $255 million delayed start-up claim. Evaluated Primavera schedules, analyzed opposing expert’s reports, and provided support to loss adjusters, counsel, and underwriters at market meetings.