Experience Matters

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 a claims prevention training seminar for a U.S. contractor that specializes in the design and construction of HRSGs.

Furnished CPM scheduling service for a building contractor on the Ft. Gillem Medical Laboratories in Atlanta.

On behalf of an owner, reviewed a contractor’s expert’s schedule delay analysis and damages claim for a wastewater treatment project.  Reviewed the as-planned and as-built schedules, impacted as-built schedule, delay issues, bid data, labor cost overrun data, damages calculations, and project correspondence.  Prepared observations and findings and a draft letter response from the owner to the contractor regarding claim.

On behalf of an owner, evaluated delayed engineering that affected the timely delivery of construction work packages to the construction contractors on the pipeline and gas recovery facilities associated with an LNG facility.

On behalf of an owner, analyzed a major international contractor’s $22 million delay and disruption claim on a $100 million refinery upgrade project. The project involved new hydrotreater and sulfur recovery units. Prepared a detailed schedule delay analysis and damage analysis and provided mediation testimony, which resulted in a successful settlement of the dispute.

On behalf of a paint manufacturer, prepared an expert report refuting an EPC contractor’s claim for delay and disruption allegedly resulting from work associated with removal of lead-containing paint from the process plant modules and platforms of an offshore oil production facility installed in the Gulf of Mexico. Case settled prior to trial. The project also involved the defense against the owner’s delay claim for recovery of lost profits due to the delay to the achievement of first oil allegedly caused by the lead abatement program. Presented an expert report demonstrating that the project would have been delayed because of concurrent delay by the EPC contractor. Testified in deposition, which resulted in a successful settlement of the dispute.

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.

On behalf of an EPC contractor, analyzed change order, delay and disruption claims involving an ultra low-sulfur diesel Unicracker project at a refinery.

On behalf of an owner, analyzed a claim associated with the placement of undersea oil and gas pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico. Prepared an expert report regarding technical issues of entitlement for cost overrun issues and substantiation of the accounting records to support the costs associated with the claim. Testified in arbitration.