Construction Delay & Disruption Archives – Page 4 of 9

Sercan Kocamanoglu

Sercan Kocamanoglu is a civil engineer with more than 15 years of experience. He has been appointed as a delay expert several times and acted as lead assistant to the named expert on numerous occasions.

Sercan is quick-witted, hard-working, readily available, and a sharp analyst of critical facts. He is apt to discern weak points or gaps in other experts’ analysis. Sercan is detail-focused and thorough.

Lexology Index – Arbitration – Future Leader

Sercan is a testifying delay expert and has assisted in a variety of high-profile engineering and construction disputes including attendance at multiple hearings. He has supported both delay and quantum experts in arbitration and adjudication proceedings for projects ranging from large scale power, oil and gas, airport and infrastructure projects to hospitality and residential projects (including high-rise and villa developments).

Sercan started his career as main contractor and has hands-on experience in design, construction and project planning on a variety of complex projects across the Middle East, Asia and Africa. He was responsible for preparing, monitoring and controlling the baseline programme and delay and disruption claims.

Sercan specialises in delay and disruption analysis, project planning and scheduling, programme management, and project management. He is familiar with critical path and delay analyses, disruption and acceleration. He is very interested in understanding the details to analyse the delay issues quickly and thoroughly.

Sercan is a Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors certified expert witness and a member of the Academy of Experts and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He holds a master’s in both construction project management and construction law and arbitration.

Sercan is very diligent in his work. He is a very talented and smart construction expert.

Lexology Index – Construction – Future Leader

Andrei Soltan

Andrei is a mechanical engineer with over 20 years of construction and civil engineering experience. He has been appointed as a delay expert and assisted the named expert on numerous occasions.

Andrei possesses deep knowledge of delay analysis. He is a very experienced expert with impressive attention to detail.

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Andrei has provided independent expert testimony on matters of delay and disruption to Dispute Adjudication Boards and an ICC arbitration proceeding. He is an accredited expert and has been cross-examined by leading specialist construction and engineering lawyers.

Andrei has a background in quality management and health and safety, including expertise in management systems and compliance with design supervision and execution of works contracts. He has gained expertise from is work for both consulting and contractor organizations and on a wide range of national and international projects, ranging from oil and gas, petrochemical, offshore, civil engineering infrastructure, offices, buildings, and technology projects.

Andrei specialises in a wide range of analysis techniques including time impact, impacted as-planned, and as-planned versus as-built. He provides clarity and focus for clients in the identification of periods of critical, and near critical, delay on the projects and the potential causes of those delays. He has supported clients for projects with values up to £850 million and disputed values in excess of £90 million.

Andrei is a member of the Society of Construction Law, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and a practising member of the Academy of Experts. He holds a 5-year diploma (master’s degree equivalent) in engineering and management of technological systems. Andrei has also completed an advanced professional award in expert witness evidence (LETAPAEWE), accredited by Legal Experience Training, UK.

Andrei is one of the best delay experts in the region. He has a singular ability to investigate and establish a profound knowledge of any issue that is assigned to him. He is both personable and patient with clients.

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Bob Groves

Bob Groves has over 35 years of experience in the construction, aerospace and shipbuilding industries. He has been retained as an expert regarding engineering, program management, scheduling, accounting and contract matters on numerous occasions.

Bob Groves is a sterling expert who comes highly recommended for his first-rate practice, providing scheduling and delay analysis in major construction and infrastructure projects.

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Bob has testified in state and federal civil courts, in regulatory proceedings, and in arbitrations as well as participating in mediations and settlement negotiations. His testimony has covered critical path method (CPM) scheduling, delay analysis, construction accounting and damages analysis.

Bob has a background with an international construction company as a schedule and cost engineer developing, implementing, and updating schedules and cost budgets for commercial, industrial and infrastructure construction projects. He has prepared cost estimates for negotiated and competitive bid projects and served as a project engineer with responsibility for coordinating subcontract work and contract administration.

Bob’s consulting expertise includes the evaluation of schedule delays and cost overruns on construction and manufacturing programs, and the preparation and evaluation of contract claims. He has also performed fraud and false claims investigations and prepared settlement proposals related to contract terminations.

Bob is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Project Management Institute, the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering, the Construction Financial Management Association and the American Bar Association. Prior to joining HKA, Bob was a Vice President with TM Financial Forensics; a Managing Director at Navigant Consulting; a Vice President at Tucker Alan Inc.; and a Principal at Peterson Consulting. Bob also worked at Dillingham Construction.

Bob is an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University’s School of Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, where he teaches a graduate class on construction claims analysis and resolution, including the topics of construction accounting and cost overruns, schedule delay analysis, claim preparation and alternative dispute resolution. He has also lectured to corporations, public agencies, law firms, and industry groups on topics including project scheduling, construction cost overruns, schedule delay analysis and contract claims.

Bob Groves is a highly skilled construction expert celebrated for his specialist understanding of engineering, accounting and contract matters owing to over 35 years of experience in the industry.

Lexology Index – Consulting Experts – Construction – Quantum Delay and Technical

Brian Hammer

Brian Hammer has more than 35 years of economic, accounting, financial and damages experience. He has been appointed as an expert on numerous occasions.

Brian has testified in state and federal courts, the United States Court of Federal Claims, arbitrations, and depositions. He has participated in mediations, settlement negotiations and other proceedings presenting expert analysis and developing alternative methods to resolve disputes.

Brian is a widely experienced consultant, supporting clients regarding finance, accounting, economics, damages, and data management and analysis issues in disputes and general business consulting matters. He has prepared or critiqued damages claims for lost profits, increased costs, business value, and royalties.

Brian has extensive experience in government contracts including claims, REA’s, terminations, overhead rate reviews, cost impact proposals, false claims, and regulatory compliance. His construction expertise ranges from analysis of delay and disruption costs to change orders, contract issues, reimbursability of costs and increased cost claims.

Brian holds a master’s in business administration (concentrations in finance and accounting) and a degree in economics and business.

Douglas Rapp

Douglas Rapp is a forensic accountant with more than 35 years of experience. He has been appointed as an expert on more than 40 occasions.

Douglas has testified in state court and in arbitration hearings regarding accounting and damages issues. He has also made presentations and consulted with clients in various alternative dispute resolution (ADR) forums, including mediation and non-binding arbitration.

Douglas has provided consulting services for owners, contractors, architects, engineers, sureties, financial institutions, and counsel on many commercial and public contract matters. He has performed detailed reviews of contractors’ billings pursuant to audit clauses in cost-reimbursable contracts, conducted pre-award evaluations of contractors’ accounting systems, advised clients on contract language addressing cost and accounting issues in cost-reimbursable contracts, and consulted with clients on contract change order language and pricing.

Douglas’ expertise includes the analysis and assessment of the cost and pricing aspects of formal and constructive changes, lost productivity, delay damages, contract terminations, and differing site conditions on construction projects. He has also assisted counsel and client companies with fact-finding and damages analysis on a wide range of other engagements including dealer and distributor terminations, partnership accounting disputes, professional liability investigations, public utility matters, product liability actions, and troubled loan workouts.

Douglas is a certified public accountant (California) and is a member of the California Society of Certified Public Accountants, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the Construction Financial Management Association. He has delivered lectures on claims pricing and damages analysis to attorneys, owners, engineers, and contractors.

Caryn Fuller

Caryn Fuller is a civil engineer with over 20 years of experience. She has been appointed as an expert and assisted the named expert on numerous occasions.

Caryn Fuller possesses over 25 years of experience in project management, quantum, technical, and delay analysis in the construction space. She is described as “extremely professional” and has successfully assisted on disputes valued up to $20 billion.

Lexology Index – Consulting – Construction Quantum, Delay and Technical

Caryn has been cross-examined in arbitration, including giving concurrent evidence (hot-tubbing), and has assisted on disputes for projects with values of up to $20 billion. Her expert work covers delay, quantum and technical disciplines for sectors ranging from buildings and infrastructure to industrial, power and utilities, mining and minerals, and oil and gas.

Caryn’s professional experience includes mechanical and process engineering, construction, project management, project controls management, and construction claims analysis. She is a project and program leader with a proven track record in leading high-profile, large-scale global construction initiatives, with a focus on cost control, scheduling and reporting.

Caryn’s expertise includes standard of care, scheduling issues, productivity issues, procurement delays, forensic document investigations, and cost analysis and damages. She has supported clients in arbitration (both international and domestic) and mediation, delivering expert analysis, reports and rebuttals.

Caryn holds a master’s in civil engineering and is a certified professional with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. She is a LEED accredited professional in building design and construction and has completed the American Bar Association Construction Law Trial Academy Program.

Caryn possesses attention to detail in the work product. She is a good writer, efficient speaker, and excellent leader. Caryn is very poised during cross-examination.

Lexology Index – Experts – Construction

Mile Milivojevic

Mile Milivojevic is an engineer with over 30 years of construction industry experience. He has been appointed as an expert and assisted the named expert on numerous occasions.

Mile has testified as an expert witness in arbitration and supported the named expert in litigation, arbitration, and mediation on a variety of delay and quantum issues. He has assisted in disputes with project values of more than $5 billion and disputed sums in excess of $200 million.

Mile’s construction background includes almost a decade of onsite and office-based experience working with a multi-trade contractor including electrical, mechanical and rigging. He has worked on projects in Canada, Chile, the UK, the United States, and Qatar.

Mile specializes in cost, productivity and delay, disruption, scheduling, and project risk management on industrial, infrastructure, commercial and institutional construction projects. He has experience on the assessment of damages and schedule delays in support of litigation, as well as the analysis and preparation of programming, project management, data discovery, conversion, and analysis.

Mile holds a master’s in technical sciences and a degree in civil and structural engineering. He is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International and is fluent in both English and Serbian. Mile served as an assistant professor, in the faculty of engineering at Yugoslavia’s University of Mostar, teaching construction production, construction management, and highway and railway design.

Bob Breeze

Bob Breeze is a Chartered Quantity Survey and Chartered Arbitrator with over 40 years of experience. He has been appointed as a delay and quantum expert on more than 100 occasions.

Bob Breeze is described as an “effective, communicative and thorough energy expert” with a market-leading practice covering oil, gas, power, and offshore energy.

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Bob has acted as an advocate and expert witness in litigation and arbitration proceedings for major international project with disputed values of up to US$900 million. He is experienced across all forms of alternative dispute resolution and has varied experience as an arbitrator.

Bob has worked across construction and its associated industries, principally on projects within the energy sector. These include oil and gas, fabrication of offshore structures, petrochemical, shipbuilding, and power generation. He has been employed by owners, consultants, contractors and builders, and subcontractors and vendors throughout the world delivering all aspects of quantity surveying and delay analysis.

Bob specialises in the appraisal, forensic investigation and analysis of both extension of time and monetary claims. His experience ranges from pre-contract tendering, procurement, contract award, and cost control and management to post-contract administration, including extension of time and cost, damages, and delay assessment.

Bob Breeze is a fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of the London Court of International Arbitration.

Sidney Scott

Sidney Scott is a professional engineer with more than 35 years of construction and engineering industry experience. He has been appointed as an expert on more than 15 occasions.

Sidney is a qualified expert witness and has given evidence to courts, mediators, arbitrators, and disputes boards in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Panama. He has acted as an expert for disputed values of up to $1 billion involving delay, inefficiency, acceleration, technical issues, contracts, and standard of care.

Sidney was a civil and structural engineering designer in the power industry before transitioning to construction consulting, claims, and expert services. He is experienced in design, contract and procurement advisory services, process improvement studies and performance audits, dispute resolution, integrity monitoring, contract and specification development, research, and training.

Sidney’s expertise includes evaluating delay, inefficiency, acceleration, and design defect claims for a wide range of projects, with an emphasis on transportation projects. He is recognized as a national expert regarding procurement and contracting methods for the construction industry and has provided advice and consulting services for major infrastructure projects, utilizing alternative delivery.

Sidney is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Transportation Research Board. He is a certified National Highway Institute instructor and regularly presents and is published on a wide variety of construction and dispute matters.

Charles Bucci

Charles Bucci is a professional engineer with almost 15 years of construction industry experience. He has been retained as a delay and quantum expert on numerous occasions.

Charles’ approach is simultaneously thoughtful and confident. He is a pragmatic negotiator. Charles very quickly adjusts to any new additional information.

Lexology Index – Construction – Future Leader

Charles has provided independent assessment and expert reports for disputed projects in arbitration and litigation proceedings. He has acted as expert for disputed values of up $150 million and for projects with values of up to $1.5 billion, ranging from major infrastructure and power projects to a wide variety of building uses.

Charles has worked on multiple projects at two leading general contractors in Canada where he held various positions. As a project manager, he was responsible for the complete supervision and coordination of all steps of complex construction projects, including supervision of project teams, communication with stakeholders, control of costs and schedules, preparation and negotiation of subcontracts, and change management.

Charles specialises in disputes related to changes, delays, loss of productivity, and quantification of damages. He provides advisory and expert support for owners regarding program and project management services and for a variety of clients on optimizing project management processes, reviewing and implementing project controls, and preparing and defending construction claims.

Charles is a member of Quebec’s Order of Engineers (Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec) and the main author of their guide to best practises for the management of construction projects. He is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International and the Project Management Institute and is fluent in both English and French. Charles also speaks at industry conferences about construction dispute resolution, project management, and construction innovation.

Charles Bucci is a well-regarded delay expert with deep expertise in providing delay analysis in major construction-related litigation and arbitration proceedings.

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