Expert profile
Highlights
- Versatile and widely experienced construction industry professional.
- Effectively combines a mix of field experience, dispute work and management consulting experience.
- Proven as a credible expert under cross-examination.
- Able to dive deeply into a complicated dispute, quickly understand the relevant issues, and provide a roadmap for analysis.
Industries
Buildings | Industrial & Manufacturing | Transportation Infrastructure | Power & Utilities
Known for delay and quantum analysis on mega-projects, Daniel Kwon is a prominent construction expert consistently praised for his clarity and strategic insights in disputes.
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Expertise
Daniel Kwon is a Professional Engineer with more than 20 years of construction industry experience. His civil engineering and on-site experience, coupled with both claims and management consultancy experience, provides a strong basis for his roles as both an expert in delay and technical disciplines, as well as his service providing strategic advice to the construction industry.
Daniel has acted as an expert witness and expert assistant, providing reports and presentations in support of settlement negotiations, mediation, deposition, arbitration, and trial. He has testified in deposition, mediation, arbitration, and state court and has completed various expert witness training programs with the American Bar Association (ABA) and SEAK.
Daniel has identified, prepared and defended claims across a wide range of industries, focused on schedule delay, lost productivity, contractor performance and standard of care, acceleration, and assessment of claims recoverability. He has prepared as-planned and baselines schedules, created extensive as-built schedules from historical data, served as a contemporaneous project scheduler, performed construction cost assessments, and estimates for replacement construction.
Professional recognition
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Client Choice – Construction
Construction
Daniel is knowledgeable and presents information clearly and in manner that is understandable to the jury. Daniel’s understanding of the issues, timeliness and responsiveness was impressive.
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Background
Daniel has provided services on mega-projects valued at more than US$20 billion in the water/wastewater, data center, oil and gas, nuclear, hospitality, mining, pharmaceutical and life sciences, commercial, heavy civil, transportation, and construction industries.
Daniel is a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) accredited professional and holds both a bachelors and master’s degree in civil engineering. He has presented to the Los Angeles Bar Association on the topic of ‘Structural Engineering 101 for Lawyers’ and has written for the ABA Construction Accounting publication regarding ‘Pricing of Construction Claims’.
Qualifications
BS Civil Engineering
MS Civil Engineering
Professional Memberships
PE (Civil), LEED AP
Contact Daniel
Email: danielkwon@hka.com
Tel: +1 818 255 9950
Location:
333 South Grand Avenue
Suite 1400
Los Angeles, CA 90071
