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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: AIA, ASHRAE, CSI, CDT, LEED-AP, NCARB – Consulting building science architect with more than 14 years experience in the field. Experience includes: building enclosure technical design, consulting, construction inspections, and field investigations. Expertise includes: architectural glass and glazing (curtain walls, windows, skylights, and glazed doors); building enclosure analyses and recommendations; cause-and-origin investigations; and computer simulations of wind and windborne debris tracing. Typical scope of services include: assistance in evaluation of... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Consulting expert specializing in construction safety. Expertise includes: cranes, construction equipment, rigging, excavating and trenching, steel, concrete and wood truss erection, fall protection, aerial lifts, mobile and fixed scaffolding, ladders, forklifts, material handling, concrete forming and pouring, confined space, and dump trucks. Additional expertise includes: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (O.S.H.A.) regulatory compliance / violations; compliance with construction industry practices; general contractor, subcontractor, and owner responsibility for safety; contractual obligations... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: B.S.C.E., P.E. - Licensed Civil Engineer with expertise as a Land Surveyor. Experience includes design; construction; contract formation and administration; document control; and quality and quantity control. Experience also includes mass earthwork, infrastructure, concrete formwork and placement, structural steel erection, wood-frame construction, and architectural specialties. Currently inspects and reports on the condition of residential, commercial, and industrial real estate properties for prospective buyers and sellers. Provides support and technical help... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Over 29 years experience in design engineering for wide range of residential, commercial, industrial and institutional projects including wood frame, steel, masonry and concrete structures varying in size from one to six stories. Other projects include: shoring and underpinning of existing structures, retaining walls, and earthquake evaluation and rehabilitation and fire damage repair projects. Over 18 years of experience as a Structural Engineering Forensic Consultant with extensive knowledge of current... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: M.M.E., P.E. - Mechanical engineer with emphasis on safety and design analysis. Expertise includes: cost estimation; safety research; industrial accidents; product accidents / liability; machinery, mechanical components, and consumer products design and safety analysis; and on-site and laboratory accident investigations. Additional expertise in: agricultural engineering; crane safety devices; farm machinery; forensic engineering; guardrail testing; ladders; power lines; press guards; trailer hitches and towbars; truck-mounted ladder racks; and wood railings. Multiple... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: B.A., M.B.A. - Practicing real estate broker, licensed general contractor, published author, frequent lecturer, and local and national media interviewee, specializing in real estate transactions and construction matters. Real estate expertise includes: sales; leases; contracts; property management; foreclosures; economic analysis; disclosure; data research; habitability; standards of care; residential investment properties; and duties of agents / sellers / buyers. Construction expertise includes: building codes / violations; business loss; contract disputes; construction... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Interior design professional and educator, experienced in all fields of interior design and decoration services for private residences, showcase homes, executive offices, judicial offices, law firms, and commercial display areas. Expertise includes: marketing; budgeting / estimating; standards and practices: project management; interior architectural detailing; construction consultation; space planning; layout; materials; lighting; fixtures; art; and flooring. Widely published author, multiple television appearances. Expert witness consultations, depositions, and courtroom testimony... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: M.B.A., P.E. - Consulting mechanical engineer for product failure analysis, personal injury analysis, property loss, accident reconstruction, accident causation, equipment evaluation, systems evaluation, construction accidents, general industry accidents, project evaluation, and safety and maintenance procedures. Specializing in residential heating and cooling including: decorative fireplaces, space heaters, wood burning fireplaces, wall furnaces, forced-air furnaces, log lighters, air conditioners, and dehumidifiers. Also experienced in residential ranges, water heaters, gas or wood-burning appliances... » 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: CR, CIE, CMR - General, flooring, painting and decorating, and specialty window covering contractor experienced in determining damage to residential / commercial contents and structures resulting from construction defects, water, mold, bacteria, sewage, fire, smoke, or indoor air quality problems. Offering services that include appraisal, inspection, infrared building inspections (finds hidden moisture/water intrusions), restoration, industry standards, claims analysis and investigation, concrete moisture emission testing, cleaning (carpet, upholstery, draperies, and Oriental... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: CR, CIEC, CIE, CMRS, CMR - Property damage consultant experienced in determining damage to residential / commercial property both contents and structures resulting from water, mold, bacteria, sewage, fire, smoke, or indoor air quality problems. Offering services that include appraisal, inspection, infrared building inspections (finds hidden moisture/water intrusion), restoration, industry standards, claims analysis and investigation, concrete vapor/moisture emission testing, concrete sulfate issues, textile cleaning (carpet, upholstery, draperies, and Oriental, American... » 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. - Experienced in wood and materials science, product design and liability, structural analysis, fracture mechanics, and mechanical engineering; extensive experience with ladders, scaffolding, furniture, pilings, trusses, and wood structural problems... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Ph.D. - Experienced in general architectural matters including exterior, water, roofing, solar energy, energy analysis, insect structural, structural (wood), building layout, apartment building, parking, expansion/cracking, ADA accessibility... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: P.E. - Experienced in the construction industry as engineering superintendent, general superintendent and construction project manager. Familiar with all phases of residential, commercial and industrial construction including single and multi-story wood frame, steel, and reinforced concrete structures... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Ph.D. - Expert in wood chemistry specializing in adhesive and wood properties. Knowledgeable in identifying molds and fungi on wood and how they affect the strength of the wood, how they start, spread and affect adhesives or fastenings in the wood... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Ph.D. - Experienced in accident reconstruction, product liability, failure analysis, and fracture mechanics.  Expertise includes: glass failures and glass testing (bottles, windows, windshields, dishes, cook wear, etc.); metallurgical failures (welds, gears, ladders, straps, cables, etc.); ceramic failures; corrosion failures; plastic, polymer, composite material, and wood failures; and user safety and equipment design. Additional experience in contract disputes and patent disputes. Ph.D in Materials Science and Engineering. Over 30 years expert witness... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Experienced in woodfinishing and woodworking. Areas include wood, woodworking, adhesives for woodworking, woodworking tools, wood finishing, wood finishing tools and equipment, wood finish application, wood finish formulation, wood finish repair, high tech wood coatings, traditional wood coatings, wood furniture manufacture, wood furniture maintenance, wood furniture restoration and repair, antique wood furniture repair and_restoration, guitars, guitar building and mass manufacture, guitar design, guitar repair and restoration, guitar counterfeits, stringed instrument manufacture... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Experienced in furniture, wood and related fields specializing in authentication, restoration, and conservation of pre-industrial American and European furniture... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: P.E., S.E. - Experienced in structural engineering issues on a wide range of projects including complex high rise construction, office buildings, schools, medical buildings, parking structures, churches, hotels, apartments, warehouses, and industrial buildings. Work with various material types including steel, cost-in-place, pre-stressed concrete, masonry and wood, as well as, numerous seismic rehabilitation projects... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: F.A.C.F.E., D.A.B.F.E., D.A.B.F.E.T. - Experienced in commercial flooring issues for over 35 years. Areas of expertise include current and future material degradation and projected replacement costs, installation standards, concrete additives, and moisture vapor. All flooring material including wood, carpet, stone and ceramic, vinyl, etc. Also covers slip, trip and fall causation. Prior expert witness experience. Consultations, depositions, and courtroom testimony... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: A.S.A. - Consultant appraiser of antiques, residential contents, as well as, fine and decorative arts for collectors, museums, businesses, accountants, attorneys, insurance, municipalities, and individuals. Including wood identification and dating, review of appraisals, documentation of fraud, cataloging of collections, inventory and condition reports, damage and loss claims, diminution of value, acquisitions and divestments, estate planning, tax and probate, charitable contributions, and dissolution of marriage / division of property... » Read Complete Profile

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