Experience Matters

Provided construction claims management services for the owner of a hydroelectric transmission line project. The CAD$4.6 billion transmission line project included a 1,384 km, 500‑kV HVDC transmission line, two new converter stations, and additional 230-kV transmission line interconnections.

On behalf of a manufacturer of HRSGs, analyzed a contractor’s claim for delay, acceleration, scope of work changes, and loss of productivity on the installation of three waste HRSGs.

Provided a contractor’s baseline and update schedules, change order request and general site supervision on a cement storage and distribution center in Mobile.

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 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 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.

Reviewed an owner’s contracting strategy, ITT packages, contract terms and conditions for FEED contracts, and draft procedures for design and fabrication management of an FPSO project.

Provided claims prevention training seminars for a mineral processing engineering firm in Denver, Tucson, and Mexico City. Recommended clauses to resolve potential inconsistencies, ambiguities, and conflicts. Prepared clauses for cost and schedule control procedures.

On behalf of an owner, analyzed contractual responsibilities for cost overruns and delays on the fabrication of components of an offshore drilling rig.

On behalf of an EPC contractor, analyzed delay and acceleration claims on the EPC of an ammonia plant project.