Services

Engineering Testing and Support Services

  • Structural Engineering – ensure that structures or proposed structures meet criteria for design, safety, serviceability, performance and applicable codes and regulations.
  • Structural Testing – testing of full scale structures and components for conditions consistent with design, serviceability, performance and safety.
  • Temporary Structures Design – design temporary structures used during the construction of buildings, bridges, tunnels and other facilities.
  • Construction Cost Estimating – define project scopes of work and budgets by determining total costs of labor, materials, capital, and professional fees relating to damages or construction of a project.
  • Construction Project Scheduling – determine time frame and task relationships relative to efficient completion of construction projects.
  • Traffic Engineering – provide engineering investigations related to traffic accidents, highway design issues, highway construction issues, work zone safety, signalization and other traffic control devices.
  • Project Risk Management and Assessment – Early identification of risks associated with your capital or operational service acquisition.

Construction Litigation Support

  • Expert Witness Services – provide engineering services related to litigation in the areas of construction defects, design defects, safety investigations and claim disputes.
  • Claims Analysis and Claims Preparation – evaluate and analyze potential claims and assist in the preparation of construction claims resulting from delays, cost overruns and loss of productivity.
  • Forensic Engineering – perform investigations regarding design, construction, defective materials and products or workmanship that may have contributed to the failure.
  • Property/Casualty Loss Investigations – investigate potential insurance claims and circumstances related to a variety of damages and possible losses.
  • Surety – Project evaluation and oversight

Safety, Quality, and Inspection Services

  • Erosion Control Design and Inspections – evaluating the impacts of erosion issues and planning and designing preventative and corrective measures to reduce damages.
  • Construction and General Industry Safety – perform investigations including site inspection and accident investigation to determine compliance with commonly accepted safety regulations and practices.
  • Design Defects and Quality of Construction – provide expertise in evaluating and investigating potential issues related to design defects and quality of construction.
  • Post Blast Inspections – perform inspections of property damage to determine consistency with blast vibrations.
  • Value Engineering – improve the function of your project by evaluating cost and limiting unnecessary expenditures.

Operations and Maintenance Excellence

  • Facility Condition Assessments — Facility walkdowns and condition characterizations
  • Continuous improvement— conduct gap analysis, problem solving, rapid improvement events, lean/waste evaluation, process mapping, development/evaluate metrics, balanced score card application and Six Sigma.

Public & Private Acquisition Assistance and Liaison

  • Customer liaison — interface between customer and contractor — design document screenings, constructability reviews, review/validate progress payments and retainage, etc.
  • Proposal Assessment and Advisory – Assistance and assessment of Technical and Pricing components of your proposal submission.