Team Member

Buildings & Facilities

Transportation & Infrastructure

Oil & Gas Pipelines

Marine & Offshore

Petroleum Refining & Gas Processing

Power & Energy

Chemical & Petrochemical

OIL, GAS & CHEMICAL PROCESSING

• Project experience in oil & gas pipelines; gas transmission & distribution; gathering systems; oil & gas processing; chemical & petrochemical

MARINE & OFFSHORE PRODUCTION

• Project experience in offshore oil & gas platforms; shipbuilding; dredging; allisions

BUILDINGS & FACILITIES

• Project experience in commercial buildings; education; manufacturing facilities; hotels & convention centers; entertainment & sports

Chemical & Petrochemical

Enterprise Products Propylene Dehydration Plant

Analyzed project changes, contractor performance, productivity issues, mismanagement, engineering issues, and construction failures leading to the termination of the EPC contractor. Assisted with the development of multiple damage models and provided assistance to Interface’s testifying expert and the law firm leading up to and through the end of trial.

Huntsman Iron Oxide Pigments Production Plant

Performed an in-depth review of the base project costs and the ongoing and repurposing costs for the purpose of assessing the reasonableness of these costs. This included a thorough review of labor reports, invoices, purchase orders, and other cost documents.

Wacker Polysilicon Plant (Poly 11)

Analyzed claims related to material take-offs (MTOs) and the use of a third-party pipe support material. Assisted in preparing a report discussing these issues, concluding that MTOs were not in the client’s scope of work and its use of the third-party pipe support material was sufficient despite the material’s inherent limitations.

Yara & BASF Freeport Ammonia Plant

Performed a site evaluation and analyzed various warranty claims, including contractual entitlement, potential damages, current system performance, and costs to repair/replace equipment. Evaluated repair/replacement solutions for each claim. Assisted with the preparation of an expert report prior to the case settling favorably for Interface’s client.

Transportation & Infrastructure

Chevron Questa Water Treatment Plant

Prepared demonstrative graphics for use in affirmative and rebuttal reports. Assisted with the review and analysis of various project schedules in a windows delay analysis to identify the project’s as-built critical path at particular points in time.

San Jacinto River Authority Water Line Segment W2B

Reviewed repair costs, repair procedures, and rupture reports related to three pipeline failures during the first two years of operation for a 30-inch water line. Also assisted with the analysis of contemporaneous project documents related to the design and construction of the water line.

WR Grace Conveyance Channel & Stormwater Retention Basin

Provided claims preparation assistance for additional compensation, including schedule delay analysis and analysis of several cost growth issues, including impacts from two named storms and various engineering errors and omissions. Resulted in favorable settlement for the client.

Petroleum Refining & Gas Processing

Crestwood Bear Den II Natural Gas Processing Plant

Assisted with evaluating the causes of increased project costs, including identifying major changes to the project through a P&ID analysis. Analyzed project schedules to determine critical and near-critical path delays in an as-planned versus as-built schedule delay analysis.

NatGasoline Methanol Production Plant

Assisted with the development of a schedule delay analysis utilizing a windows analysis. Researched and quantified critical path delays in various areas of the project and assisted in the development of graphics for use in a mediation presentation.

Santa Fe Midstream 30-30 Gas Treating and Process Plant

Assisted with the development of a preliminary report discussing cost increases during the construction and testing of a 30-30 gas plant. Analyzed bulk material quantity increases, increased construction labor, late and revised engineering drawings, and added work.

Sonatrach Menzel Ledjmet East Field

Assisted in analyzing over 50 alleged changes with a claimed value in excess of $1 billion USD. Provided engineering analysis by reviewing 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.

Power & Energy

Agilon Energy Victoria Port Power II & Agilon Energy Victoria City Power Plants

Prepared demonstrative graphics for an expert report and a rebuttal report. Assisted with schedule delay analysis to assess various delays and disruptions to key events, such as the contractually required owner deliverables.

Siemens Energy, Inc.

Reviewed and analyzed documents related to the failure of a steam turbine, including root cause analyses, contemporaneous project records, and fact witness testimony, in preparation for the issuance of an expert report which ultimately resulted in settlement.

Land & Subsea Pipelines

Phillips 66’s Sweeny Midstream Pipeline

Prepared demonstrative graphics for use in affirmative and rebuttal reports. Assisted with the research, review, and development of an expert report relative to productivity impacts, disputed invoices, and adverse weather conditions.

REX Seneca Lateral Pipeline

Analyzed numerous claims related to lack of temporary workspaces on a natural gas pipeline located in southeastern Ohio. Assisted the testifying experts with the development of a rebuttal opinion responding to two damage calculations related to productivity, weather, procurement, and other issues.

Vermont Gas Addison County Natural Gas Pipeline

Assisted with the development of an expert report analyzing change orders, basic concepts and practices of pipeline construction, costs incurred during performance of the work, and typical overhead and profit on a 42-mile gas pipeline extension.

Buildings & Facilities

Benteler Steel Tube Manufacturing Facility

Assisted with the evaluation of productivity issues, such as stacking of trades. Prepared demonstrative graphics to assist in expert report preparation.

Children’s Adventure Childcare Center

Performed a site evaluation and assisted the Interface testifying expert in analyzing issues related to ongoing water intrusion problems at the CLA Pearland building. The owner alleged that the contractor’s work was not performed in accordance with the contract documents, was defective, was not performed in a good and workmanlike manner, and was performed with substandard materials.

Continental Tire Manufacturing Plant

Provided assistance in an advisory capacity on the development of change order requests related to design changes and value engineering services, which ultimately resulted in the requests being accepted.

Hampton Inn & Suites

Assisted with the development of an expert report opining on force majeure weather conditions, construction delays, and an assessment of additional time. Supported Interface testifying expert throughout trial, which resulted in a decision in favor of the client.

Hyatt House

Assisted with the development of an impacted as-planned schedule delay analysis on the renovation of several floors of a Hyatt hotel. Prepared demonstrative graphics for use in the rebuttal report and recreated the schedules in scheduling software to accurately assess the project’s critical path.

N.E. Development & Affiliates

Assisted with the performance of a DCMA 14-point schedule assessment of numerous schedules related to the construction of a 29-story high-rise apartment tower in Plant, Texas. Assisted in preparing a report of Interface’s findings after conducting the schedule assessment.

Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Casino Expansion Phase II

Assisted the Interface testifying expert in developing a presentation to aid the client in arbitration regarding an incomplete facility design featuring over 100 architectural supplemental instructions correcting the incomplete design and design errors and adding additional work.

Hotel Paso Del Norte

Assisted with the initial analysis of various construction defects and damages, such as water damage, failure to secure windows, non-conforming roof drains, and others. Developed the windows schedule delay analysis with the Interface testifying expert.

Marine & Offshore

Articulated Tug Barge Trailing Suction Hopper Dredge

Assisted with the review and analysis of various critical path delays and productivity losses experienced during the design and construction of two vessels (Hull 252 – Tug & Hull 253 – Barge). Developed presentation for use in negotiations resulting in favorable outcome for the client.

M/V Maersk Kentucky Allision with High Island 624 Platform

Opined on the alleged damages related to the allision of the M/V Maersk and the High Island Block platform. Specifically, reviewed and opined on the platform’s scheduled value, the costs to remove the platform, and the value of the platform as scrap materials.

Port of Long Beach Fireboats Vigilance & Protector

Developed two damage models for use in settlement negotiations involving productivity losses during the construction of two fireboats. This analysis included a thorough review of the project record and a measured-mile productivity analysis.