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Expertise Description: General Contractor with more than 15 years of experience in restoration, renovations, and building and designing of residences, including custom homes up to 17,000 square feet. Additional experience in equestrian centers / facilities construction and equestrian sports. Expertise includes: construction defects and damage; building codes and violations; construction management; framing; inspections; and curtain wall testing. 5 years expert witness experience. Consultations and depositions... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Certified building inspector and licensed contractor with more than 36 years experience in the construction industry. Areas of expertise include building plan interpretation, quality control, construction management, construction education and training, residential and commercial construction, various building codes, inspection of code compliance, inspection for post-earthquake life safety, ADA requirements / compliance, and inspection for abatement of substandard or hazardous structures. Construction skills include carpentry, electrical, mechanical and plumbing trades. Projects... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: General Building Contractor with more than 25 years experience in the field. Expertise includes general building construction; construction defects; noncompliance issues related to UBC (Uniform Building Code); UPC (Uniform Plumbing Code); and standards of care in the industry. Experience includes: providing investigation, analysis, and reporting; assessing property damage and determining causation; providing analysis of general building construction defects and plumbing / mechanical system failures; reviewing the basis of construction claims... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: A.I.A., LEED AP – Consulting expert for over 25 years with extensive background in Architectural services. Specializes in waterproofing, building technology & diagnosis, peer review, and building code analysis. Additional services include building evaluation and due diligence inspections. Manages design / build, construction, and design / bid / award delivery processes. Has worked in concrete, steel, and wood, more particularly with wood-framed construction and building envelope design. Provides project management... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Ph.D. – Consulting expert with over 35 years of experience in Fire Protection Engineering & Fire Safety Science. Expertise includes development of fire safety engineering methods, fire resistance, fire testing, electric fires, furniture flammability, plastics flammability, fire toxicity, fire corrosivity, ignitability, self-heating and spontaneous combustion, failure analysis, fire science applications to fire and explosion investigation, ignition of fires from electric faults and failures, flame spread, explosions, heat release rate, computer... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: More than 30 years experience as an expert consultant in a wide variety of construction-related fields. Expertise includes forensic inspections and construction projects, scheduling, construction estimate preparation, construction document peer review, site inspections, and evaluations; code and materials review, cost and scheduling/delay analysis, development and management of remedial design recommendations utilized for cost estimating, repair and design/build applications. Has worked on construction, remodeling, and remedial repairs on large single-family and... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Consulting Structural Engineer with expertise in the evaluation of the condition of existing damaged and distressed structures and the design of repairs to bring the facilities back to sound condition. Licensed professional engineer or structural engineer in 25 jurisdictions. More than 35 years experience in building design and construction. Experience includes: roofing and waterproofing; reinforced concrete, structural steel, and masonry structures; and the evaluation of historic structures. Has worked on... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Ph.D. - Consulting scientific expert whose forensic work has included cases involving fraud, material suitability, and strength loss allegations in fire retardant treated wood products such as lumber, utility poles, plywood, and Copper Chrome Arsenate (CCA) treated timber. In-depth litigation support extending to field investigations, research, detailed reports, validated opinions, and trial/deposition testimony concerning biocides (pressure/non-pressure), formulation development, treatment processes, wood chemistry, standardized testing, basic science, wood adhesives, code and... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Over 48 years of experience in general contracting with specialized expertise in windows, wall systems, glazing and waterproofing of building structures; also experienced in window installation, design and construction of low-rise frame buildings, curtainwalls and EIFS; frequently participates in seminars on sealants and wall systems and gives private seminars to architectural and general contracting firms in California. Active in ASTM & AAMA, been tested and certified by the Northwest Wall... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: P.E. – Experienced in Engineering and Environmental Consulting. President of both a Professional Engineering and a Building Inspection firm. Has worked in various engineering and construction capacities since 1987. Experience and work assignments include various aspects of the main disciplines of Engineering and Environmental consulting including but not limited to: building and safety codes compliance; construction and project management; physical condition surveys; reserve funding analysis; plumbing; electrical; heating, ventilating, and... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Experienced in engineering and general building contractor issues. Areas of expertise include: construction accidents, project management for contractors, engineers, and developers; and preparation of project estimates. Practiced in project management, conceptual, and detailed estimating, value engineering, construction administration, field supervision, and inspection for quality assurance... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Experienced building contractor and inspector. Areas of expertise include defective construction analysis, cost estimating, construction scheduling and delays, plan and code compliance, document analysis, summaries and reports, evaluation of change order costs, estimates of repair for property loss from fire, flood, water and earthquake damage, construction management, on-site inspections, and project supervision... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Ph.D. - Mechanical engineer experienced in vehicle accident reconstruction, low speed impact, product liability (ladders, chairs, elevators, hydraulic lifts, power tools, machinery etc.), slip, trip, and fall, building and safety codes violations (stairs, rails, etc.)... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: AIA, IIDA, NCARB – Consulting expert with over 45 years experience in architecture as a firm owner and principal including facilities evaluations, development of remedial programs, project design, and management. Has worked on a variety of projects ranging from residential, commercial, academic, industrial, sporting, and event structures. Has been designer and principal-in-charge of a significant number of noteworthy projects. Additional expertise includes building evaluations / conditions reports, remedial programs, and... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: M.S., P.E. - Consulting fire protection engineer, specializing in combustion science, fire modeling, fire protection engineering, fire research, heat transfer, optical properties of surfaces, and thermal physics. Experienced in matters pertaining to combustion and explosions; thermal radiation; foam, gas phase, and powder fire extinguishers; smoke detectors; private and commercial aircraft fires, vehicle fires and watercraft fires; residential building fires; commercial building fires; industrial building fires; rural, suburban, and urban fire... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Practicing general contractor and professional inspector, with more than twenty-eight years of experience in the construction and home / building inspection fields. As an active, working, licensed contractor, keeps current on new materials, building codes, suppliers, etc. Prior experience includes doing estimates on damaged houses for F.E.M.A. during the wildfires of 2007 and working on insurance claims for houses, apartments, and other types of buildings. Very familiar with standards of... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: P.E., R.A., R.A.S. - Consulting expert specializing in Fire Origin & Cause, Accident Reconstruction and Failure Analysis, with an emphasis in industrial and commercial accidents, vehicle accidents, tractor truck accidents and ECM download analysis, product equipment failure analysis. Expertise includes: failure analysis of vehicle, appliances, tools, machinery, equipment, HVAC, industrial, commercial, oil field, marine, residential, piping/piping components/pressure vessel design/failure analysis; ANSI B31.1 & B31.3; ASME Sections I & VIII; slip... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: M.B.A.,CBI, ASPE, CSI - Consulting expert specializing in construction and building inspection, estimating, project management, scheduling, construction management. Expertise includes: building residential and commercial structures, tenant improvements, hands on management with various structures and finishes. Additional expertise in construction contract documents, drawings, specifications, building codes, OSHA requirements, cost to repair and scheduling in mediation, arbitration, civil litigation, and alternative dispute resolution forums. Multiple speeches and lecture presentations. Certified Building Inspector... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: AIA - Consulting expert specializing in architecture, with an emphasis on project management and technical development of large scope building projects. Expertise includes: commercial real estate and retail, educational, healthcare advanced technology and residential, management and development of building construction documents, architectural construction forensics and expert testimony. Additional expertise in construction contract administration and project oversight. Registered Texas -American Institute of Architects (AIA), Member of AIA National, state and local... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Consulting expert with more than 35 years experience in the construction industry. Experience includes contract disputes, cost of repair, and order changes. Founder and President of a general contractor and commercial real estate developer. Company has built since 1977 more than 1,000 projects totaling over 15 million square feet costing over $700 million. Expert has been listed in the top 20 largest general contractors located in Orange County. Projects include... » Read Complete Profile

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