Team Member

OIL & GAS

• Over 15 projects, including the following industry sectors: pipelines; refining; LNG; cryogenic gas processing; fractionation; central processing facilities; tank batteries; well pads; enhanced oil recovery CO2 injection

POWER, PROCESS & INDUSTRIAL

• Over 10 projects, including the following industry sectors: Chemical & petrochemical; power plants; manufacturing facilities; processing plants; industrial facilities

INFRASTRUCTURE, BUILDINGS & HEAVY CIVIL

• Over 10 projects, including the following industry sectors: Commercial buildings; bridges & roadways; diversion projects; water treatment; reservoirs; hotels & convention centers; military bases; multifamily housing; hospital & medical facilities

Transportation & Infrastructure

Alaska Energy Authority West Fork Upper Battle Creek Diversion Dam Bradley Lake Hydroelectric Expansion

Analyzed design changes, productivity, material resource management, differing site conditions, and drilling and blasting issues. Assessed schedule delay, equipment usage, and equitable unit rate adjustment claims. Assisted owner in responding to contemporaneous project schedule update narratives and formal correspondence related to contractual entitlement for project changes. Prepared recommended owner responses to contractor claims in formal report.

Chevron Questa Water Treatment Plant

Analyzed engineering errors, productivity losses, and backcharges for entitlement and quantification issues. Assisted with schedule delay windows analysis.

City of Georgetown Lake Water Treatment Plant Expansion Phase III

Analyzed issues and prepared demonstrative graphics for use in arbitration.

City of McAllen Utility Boeye Reservoir Relocation

Analyzed construction issues and schedule delays that arose during the relocation of the Boeye Reservoir. Developed schedule illustrations for expert report demonstrating the extent of schedule delay impacts caused by various construction issues.

Katy Lake RV Resort

Analyzed engineering plans, subgrade preparation, and concrete installation issues that contributed to extensive concrete failures and underground utilities failures. Assisted in preparing expert report and supported Interface testifying expert throughout trial, which resulted in decision to award $4 MM+ in damages to client.

Texas DOT The Woodlands Parkway Widening

Prepared $1 MM+ contractor claim to recover damages largely due to differing site conditions and governmental mismanagement.

Buildings & Facilities

Benteler Steel Tube Manufacturing Facility

Evaluated productivity data and causation for productivity losses. Valued contract price deduction for contract termination. Assisted in preparation of affirmative and rebuttal expert reports.

Eastern Emerald Convention Center & Luxury Hotel

Analyzed contractor work practices, historical data for utilities failures, and regulatory citations related to excavation wall collapse during construction.

Guam and Chamorro Education Facility

Assisted in analyzing piles and foundations issues as well as associated schedule delays and construction claims.

Hotel Paso Del Norte Renovations

Analyzed contractor’s project management practices relative to contractual requirements and industry standard of care. Verified damages resulting from mismanagement. Assisted with windows analysis to assess impacts to the project’s critical path schedule. Supported Interface testifying expert in preparing report and providing deposition and trial testimony.

Legacy West Shopping Center

Assisted in analyzing project schedules using DCMA 14-point schedule assessment and in preparing report.

Sapphire Condominiums

Analyzed building envelope and water intrusion issues relative to contractor construction progress and force majeure events. Prepared demonstrative graphics to assist in expert report preparation.

Texas Rangers Stadium, Globe Life Field

Analyzed productivity impacts resulting from general contractor disruptions to subcontractor’s work. Evaluated project cost reports and contractual entitlement issues based on the guaranteed maximum price (GMP) contract. Prepared overview graphics and report, advising subcontractor management regarding potential change orders and contemporaneous project correspondence.

University Medical Center (VA Hospital)

Developed graphics demonstrating extensive changes and disruptions experienced throughout the project.

USACE Tinker Air Force Base Medical and Dental Clinic

Verified and quantified project cost overruns. Prepared overview for use in mediation that led to settlement agreement.

Land & Subsea Pipelines

Chesapeake and Access Pipeline Projects

Analyzed project documents to support preparation of claims for labor productivity impacts, force majeure events, and other project changes incorporated into affirmative and rebuttal expert reports. Quantified contractor damages for owner-requested changes related to crew move-arounds, fabrication changes, and bid exclusions.

Dakota Gas Carbon Dioxide Pipeline

Analyzed pipeline route selection and construction defect issues in relation to a landslide.

ONEOK Arbuckle II Pipeline

Quantified replacement contractor costs resulting from contractor abandonment and remediation costs for various workmanship issues. Identified issues with contractor’s claim basis, including bid errors, labor inefficiencies, and unaccounted-for weather impacts, which were the contractor’s contractual responsibility, and inappropriate valuation methodologies. Prepared affirmative expert report and two rebuttal expert reports.

Phillips 66’s Sweeny Midstream Pipelines

Evaluated scope of work requirements and contractual entitlement for disputed invoices. Assisted with measured mile productivity analysis and quantified damages. Led efforts in preparing affirmative and rebuttal expert reports.

Oil & Gas

Tabula Rasa Seminole East Field CO2 Injection

Analyzed schedule delays and construction issues that arose during the construction of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) fields. Prepared demonstrative graphics to assist client with mediation process.

Walter Coelacanth Field Platform at Ewing Bank Block 834

Provided quality assurance for expert report related to contractor’s estimate basis for, and subsequent modification to, jacket fabrication and erection methodology, which was a decision and risk addressed in the request for quote and contract.

Petroleum Refining & Gas Processing

Apache Castex Belle Isle Gas Processing Facility

Analyzed design drawings, specifications, cost documents, schedules, estimates, progress reporting, and authorizations for expenditure (AFEs) to assess contemporaneous information available to parties. Evaluated project management performance of the client’s joint venture partner relative to industry standard of care. Supported Interface testifying expert through trial, leading to $70+ MM damages award for client.

Corpus Christi Marine Terminal EF90

Reviewed technical documents and identified key engineering changes and errors. Quantified damages due to engineering errors.

Draft Horse Gas Treating Facility

Evaluated project delays, owner obligations, daily work activities, labor efficiencies, and means and methods relative to contractor termination decision, claimed subcontractor cost, and other dispute issues. Assisted in preparing detailed expert designations to be filed for litigation.

Eagle Ford McCarty Ranch and Neu Wassenberg Ranch Central Processing Facilities

Estimated contractor cost incurred. Assessed contractor performance relative to contractual obligations and industry standard project management practices. Quantified owner damages based on contractor failures. Prepared affirmative expert report.

Energía Costa Azul LNG & Regasification Plant

Analyzed planned modifications to an existing gasification terminal with respect to firm storage and shipping agreements. Reviewed planned construction documents, including design basis, EPC contract documents, project schedules, logistics simulations, existing pipeline infrastructure, vessels information, and governmental permits. Assisted in preparing expert report issued to ICC arbitration panel and provided support to Interface testifying expert and counsel during arbitration.

Linde US Canadian Valley Processing Plant

Analyzed cost documents and timesheets to assist in quantification of replacement subcontractor costs.

Mauritania Banda Gas Project

Assisted in preparation of solicitation of interest.

NatGasoline Methanol Production Plant

Analyzed project changes and delays. Developed alternative damage model for client based on contractual entitlement issues. Prepared presentation for mediation assistance.

Sonatrach Menzel Ledjmet East Field

Assisted in analyzing over 50 alleged changes with a claimed value in excess of $1 billion USD. Developed methods for retrospective pricing of major changes. Provided engineering analysis and tracked alleged major changes by analyzing piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), heat and material balances (H&MBs), the 3D piping model, plot plans, equipment of construction, equipment data sheets, vendor quotes, purchase orders, and project specifications.

The Southcross Energy Frio LaSalle Lancaster Treating Facility Explosion

Assessed facility engineering design, operations, and maintenance decisions prior to an explosion incident. Reviewed written procedures, instrumentation/equipment manufacturer data, accident investigation information, maintenance records, training records, operating data, and process safety management (PSM) information. Prepared affirmative expert report and assisted Interface testifying expert prior to deposition.

Williams Partners Fractionation Facilities

Evaluated key issues for a $235-million dispute regarding natural gas processing facilities in the Marcellus Shale region of West Virginia. Analyzed alleged misrepresentations resulting in a post-acquisition backcharge claim for facility modifications. Analyzed numerous issues including hazard and operability (HAZOP) process and hazard analysis (PHA) studies, flare and pressure relief systems, fire and gas detection systems, the location of control rooms, communication systems, cryogenic piping, NGL transfer pumps, condensate stabilizer systems, pressure safety valve (PSV) studies and calculations, fractionation system modifications, and other technical issues.

Wynnewood Oil Refinery Explosion

Analyzed issues that led to a chemical release during a plant turnaround within the alkylation unit of a refinery. Review included technical drawings, chemical cleaning procedures, turnaround schedules, safety data sheets, de-inventorying requirements, work permits, progress reports, maintenance records, and incident investigation documentation.

Power, Process & Industrial

Duke Edwardsport Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle Station (IGCC)

Analyzed timing of environmental requirement changes and their relation to design changes.

Vale Long Harbour Nickel Processing Plant

Analyzed schedule delays, changes, contractor costs, productivity, and contractual scope of work issues. Assessed contractor earned hours. Re-quantified contractor invoices based on contractual requirements. Provided assistance to law firm to help successfully resolve dispute.

Victoria City and Victoria Port Peaking Power Plant Projects

Assessed delay and disruption productivity impacts resulting from owner deliverable grid connection and fuel supply delays. Evaluated disputed change orders, contractor termination decision, and owner back charges for entitlement and valuation issues. Quantified interests resulting from overdue invoices. Prepared affirmative and rebuttal expert reports.

Wacker Polysilicon Plant (Poly 11)

Analyzed claims related to the timing, content, and revisions of concrete drawings for a polysilicon plant. Assisted in preparing a rebuttal report to demonstrate the cause of concrete drawing revisions was not engineering errors. Instead, the drawing revisions were a result of owner-driven changes, execution decisions (e.g., out-of-sequence work), and various other issues beyond the control of the engineer.