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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Building Engineering experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Building Engineering landscape.
Expert Witness #260948
This expert's work ranges widely, from providing expert witness testimony to overseeing research and development projects, to writing for industry publications. This expert's work has had an impact on building codes and practices throughout the world. This expert is well-published and is an acclaimed educator who has taught thousands of professionals. This expert holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering, a Master of Engineering in Civil Engineering, and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Building Science. This expert has significant testifying experience.
Start Building Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #260955
This expert is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. This expert is also CEO and Co-founder of a firm that developed a software platform that automatically enriches and integrates facility operations information such as maintenance records and building IoT with building information models (BIM) to produce a 3D interactive visual information hub that provides facility managers, helpdesk and field technicians with intuitive access to actionable information when they need it most. This expert's research uses modeling and artificial intelligence to help visualize building information with big data. This expert has many years of experiences in software development in this field.
Start Building Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #249456
This expert has many years of experience in building systems design, construction, commissioning, operation and maintenance. An industry leader in promoting the practice of commissioning and in developing commissioning standards, including serving as a contributing author to the AIA B291-2003 document outlining commissioning services, this expert is also the author of monthly columns in Engineered Systems magazine, and has been frequently invited to lecture at seminars given by such industry organizations as:
- Association of Physical Plant Administrators (APPA)- American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE),- American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC)This expert is nationally noted for work in the design of energy-efficient building systems. This expert has received twelve energy engineering awards for the design of building systems. The commissioning expertise of this expert and team has been recognized since its inception by their selection to provide commissioning services for some of the largest commissioning efforts underway today. This expert has developed a new process that takes the commissioning process beyond building systems start-up, to protect and optimize the owners' facilities investments throughout the life of their buildings. This process, which encompasses and extends the elements required for the LEEDTM extra credit point, assists owners with the development and implementation of a facility management business plan for new or existing buildings within the commissioning process. It also provides the building owner with proven methods, software, and other tools needed to efficiently and effectively manage the facility.
Start Building Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #249401
This expert holds a PhD and serves as Principal of a successful consulting engineering firm. This expert founded the firm to provide comprehensive HVAC, electrical, plumbing, fire protection and forensic engineering services. This expert has served as senior plant engineer at a private research university and brings to the table many years of diverse engineering and contracting experience. This expert has extensive knowledge of building codes, mechanical systems, electrical systems, renewable energy systems and geothermal systems, building envelope and roofing systems, as well as site utilities. This expert has been involved in the design, energy analysis and commissioning for many LEED Certified Buildings. This expert is also a forensic engineering consultant.
Start Building Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #249431
This expert is a mechanical engineer, a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) and a Certified Energy Manager (CEM). Specializing in HVAC, Clean-room and Laboratories, Central Utility Plants, Plumbing, Fire Protection, Controls/Automation, Property Condition Assessment, Commissioning Authority, Reporting and Presentation, this expert has many years of mechanical engineering experience in Building Technology synthesis, design, operation and assessment at a variety of firms including TRC Engineers, Engineered Automation Systems, Inc. and ESCO. This expert is an effective consultant on diverse and challenging projects due to a solid background in mechanical, electrical, controls, life safety and security systems. This expert provides engineering, analysis, project planning, resource management, engineering, quality assurance, and commissioning and client communications. This expert's broad project experience and unique ability to integrate project needs and solutions for multiple and overlapping disciplines and technologies enables this expert to serve as an effective expert and participant on challenging projects.
Start Building Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #226340
This team is a group of seasoned construction professionals providing expert witness services. Their focus is on architectural, building, construction, design and engineering forensics. To ensure proper support, the group maintains an extensive library which includes historical building codes, industry standards, published construction cost estimating guides and a wide array of other necessary resources. Each Associate has real world experience in their respective specialties, and has experience in varied construction methods including traditional, prefab, modular and other processes. All have significant testimony experience in State and Federal Courts.
Start Building Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #249424
This expert brings to the table many years of experience with Commercial and Industrial HVAC Systems, Commercial and Industrial Electrical Equipment and Systems, Power Systems, HVAC Controls, Refrigeration, Process Cooling, Temporary Power, and Chilled Water. This includes Operations and Maintenance, Facility Management, Preventive Maintenance, and Non-destructive diagnostics (Eddy Current Analysis, Thermographic Imaging, Radiography, Real-time radiography, Vibration Analysis, Oil Trend Analysis, Laser Alignment, Frequency and Harmonics Analysis, and Voltage and Current Analysis). This expert has extensive experience with Data Centers. This expert performed HVAC, Controls, Electrical, and Fire & Security systems service for data centers all over the world including several data centers for a bank. As Principal for an industrial building systems and forensic engineering consultancy, this expert understands how building systems age and how to keep them operating safely, effectively, and efficiently 20 or 30 years after they are built. This expert provides Forensic Engineering, Failure Analysis, and Expert Witness services to large Commercial and Industrial Property owners, Insurance Carriers, and Attorneys.
Start Building Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #259486
This expert has many years of experience in engineering, construction, project management, and in cost/schedule analysis in the preparation and evaluation of contract claims on hundreds of projects across all market sectors.
This expert's project experience spans the building construction, power generation, transportation, industrial, manufacturing, environmental and infrastructure sectors. This expert has provided technical dispute resolution services in mediation, and expert testimony in arbitration, deposition, and court proceedings. This expert has served as an arbitrator in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) as an independent, private, and American Arbitration Association arbitrator.
This expert has given seminar presentations on project management, claims management and CPM scheduling to various industry groups and law firms and has also been a guest lecturer.
This expert earned Bachelor of Civil Engineering and Master of Civil Engineering degrees, and is a licensed Professional Engineer. This expert is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Construction Management Association of America and an associate member of the American Bar Association Forum on the Construction Industry.
Start Building Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #206958
This expert has many years' experience with 3d modeling software in the AEC (architecture, engineering, and construction) industries in a variety of roles. This expert was a Senior API Software Engineer on a suite of Building Information Modeling products. This expert founded a consulting firm that develops software for AEC firms worldwide using technologies including Revit, Navisworks, and SQL. Although well-schooled in the subject matter, this expert has never served as an expert witness.
Start Building Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #124245
This building materials expert holds a Ph.D. and D.Sc. and is a Professional Engineer and a Board Certified Forensic Examiner in Safety Engineering and Design.
This expert has significant testifying experience as an expert witness.
Start Building Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #231033
This construction expert group includes engineers with extensive construction experience, including commercial building design and construction, structural engineering for commercial spaces, schools, and stadiums, and senior engineering operations experience in county government.
This group has expert witness experience.
Start Building Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #248185
This optomechanical engineering expert holds a PhD and works at the intersection of engineering, R&D, and software for optomechanical systems, and is an adjunct professor at a well-regarded university teaching courses in Optomechanical System Design.
This expert has expertise at the intersection of lasers and manufacturing, the manufacturing environment, and establishing processes for effective utilization of laser-based manufacturing systems. Experience also includes the rigorous requirements of supplying to the aerospace & defense sector, including contractual obligations, establishing redundancies and contingencies, and related expectations. Areas involving CO2 lasers include using them to assist with laser absorption in combination with diamond turning, including laser-assisted diamond turning.
This expert has built numerous laser manufacturing systems and has been responsible for customer service for laser-based systems, including maintenance and support. Experience also includes the requirements of delivering components to the aerospace & defense sector, including contractual obligations and expectations when delivery of components is not being met. Additional work includes using many laser systems, building many laser manufacturing systems, using CO2 lasers for R&D applications, and building a production facility for laser-based manufacturing of components. That work included designing the laser system, process workflows around the laser, safety, preventative maintenance scheduling, training, and related activities.
This expert also has experience as an expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Building Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #280727
This building envelope expert holds a PhD and has over 55 years of mechanical engineering experience in root cause failure analysis, including building envelope matters.
This expert has inspected and consulted on water intrusion issues involving multiple bank branch offices and a large branch facility in New Jersey, including determining sources of water intrusion during ownership transitions. This expert has also consulted on water intrusion and air quality issues at a large warehouse in New Jersey.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant who has provided expert testimony in numerous cases.
Start Building Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #283004
This mechanical engineering/HVAC expert holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA in Engineering Management and Operations, and specializes in mechanical engineering design and forensic engineering, with a focus on Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration (HVAC), plumbing systems, building systems, and energy conservation. This expert has held a founding leadership role at a technical consulting firm providing design, forensic, and construction management technical consulting services, drawing on over 30 years of mechanical engineering experience.
Project experience includes work at residential, commercial, industrial, municipal, educational, and institutional facilities. Services include forensic investigations, property loss and liability consulting, expert witness testimony, investigations of building system performance issues, repair and replacement cost estimate preparation and review, and building code research and analysis.
Start Building Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #286561
This environmental sciences/sub-surface investigation expert is a senior environmental chemistry leader at a nationally recognized, award-winning environmental consulting firm with multiple offices in the eastern and midwestern United States, providing due diligence, environmental building sciences services, regulatory compliance services, subsurface investigation, and remediation services to a wide range of market segments, and has over 30 years of experience in environmental engineering, chemistry, and project management. This expert is familiar with a wide range of environmental regulations, including RCRA, CERCLA, LUST, and USEPA Contract Laboratory Protocol, and has extensive experience with a variety of state-led risk-based closure programs.
This expert has performed and managed hundreds of residential, commercial, and industrial site assessments, site investigations, and remediation projects involving heavy metals, PCBs, petroleum, PFAS and emerging contaminants, and chlorinated solvents.
This expert has investigated hundreds of sites to determine the nature and extent of contamination. The contaminated media included soil, groundwater, sediment, surface water, vegetation, air, and building materials. In expert witness work, this expert has provided expert reports, interrogatories, affidavits, depositions, and courtroom testimony addressing environmental investigation, the timing and sources of environmental releases, contaminant migration routes and pathways, reasonableness of response costs, and various other expert analyses.
Start Building Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #286788
This IAQ research and indoor environmental engineering expert has over 30 years of experience as an Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) researcher, sick building investigator, mitigation planner, healthy building design consultant, expert witness, technical author, and workshop instructor, and holds an M.S. Mechanical Engineering from a prestigious university, a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from a well-regarded technical institute, and Graduate Studies in Air Pollution Monitoring and Control from a public university in California.
This expert serves as president of an indoor environmental engineering consultancy and directs an interdisciplinary team of environmental scientists, chemists, and mechanical engineers in indoor air quality building investigations and healthy building projects. The team has developed both pro-active and reactive IAQ measurement methods and diagnostic protocols. This expert has been a recipient of state and federal research grants regarding building air quality and ventilation field studies, tracer gas techniques, in situ contaminant emission rate measurements, and the development of indoor air quality measurement instrumentation.
Prior to starting a consulting firm, this expert was a Staff Scientist with a building ventilation and indoor air quality program within a national laboratory in California. This expert has published extensively and lectured frequently on IAQ, ventilation, air cleaning, and product emission testing, and is both a licensed professional Mechanical Engineer and a Certified Industrial Hygienist.
This expert has been qualified numerous times in court as an expert in the field of indoor air quality and ventilation for both plaintiffs and defendants, and has been deposed over 150 times in cases involving indoor air quality and ventilation issues in residential, commercial, and institutional buildings.
Start Building Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #291180
This manufacturing equipment expert is a licensed Professional Engineer with over 40 years of experience with equipment and systems in mechanical engineering and manufacturing, and is LEED AP Building Design and Construction credentialed. This expert received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from a well-regarded technical institute and a Master's Degree in Project Management from a graduate school of management.
This expert has extensive hands-on experience in equipment and system design, analysis, manufacturing, testing, and troubleshooting. This expert has worked with processes, equipment, and systems in residential, commercial, and industrial construction and aerospace industries. As a mechanical engineer, this expert has performed design, analysis, assessment, and troubleshooting tasks involving commercial and industrial equipment and building systems. This expert has been involved with system programming, debugging, start-up, and runoff processes and has experience with robotics, vision systems, position sensing, and data tracking systems. Manufacturing experience includes metal fabrication, machining, finishing, and assembly processes.
Start Building Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #291583
This structural engineering expert holds a PhD in Civil Engineering, has PE, SE, SI, and LEED AP credentials, and practices as a Structural Engineer specializing in high wind environments, including assessment of exterior envelopes such as panelized building skin.
This expert has personally worked on over 15,000 projects over 25 years.
Start Building Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #292176
This structural engineering expert has held a senior role with a highly sought-after consultancy and has over 20 years of experience with forensic investigation, evaluation, and repair design of existing building enclosures, as well as building enclosure consulting and commissioning for new construction projects. In addition to being a Professional Engineer in the State of Texas, this expert is also a Registered Exterior Wall Consultant, Registered Exterior Wall Observer, Certified Construction Specifier, and Certified Construction Contract Administrator. This expert serves on committees and task forces for prominent building enclosure and fenestration industry organizations. During this expert's career, this expert has participated in dozens of building enclosure assessments, including those associated with glass windows and doors, and has designed a number of window and door replacement projects.
This expert has provided technical consultation, litigation support, and deposition testimony on numerous matters related to building enclosure and structural systems throughout the U.S.
Start Building Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #292185
This structural engineering expert has over 35 years of experience specializing in the investigation and repair of distressed and deteriorated structures and the performance of building materials and systems.
This expert has leading industry knowledge and expertise in major building materials and systems, and is a licensed structural engineer in multiple states.
This expert has served as an expert witness, providing litigation support and testimony in a range of matters.
Start Building Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #293073
This building engineering expert is an experienced engineering consultant who diagnoses and solves problems involving building enclosure and structural systems, materials failures, moisture accumulation, installation problems, and design deficiencies.
This expert has testified numerous times regarding the causes of these failures, responsible parties, and appropriate courses of repair. This expert has designed and implemented repairs for complex failures and performance problems across a variety of building types, including heritage structures, institutional buildings, and high-rise buildings.
This expert is also a business leader with over 20 years of experience in forensic investigations, engineering design, construction consulting, industry leadership, team development and leadership, business development, and marketing. As an expert witness, this expert has provided technical consultation, litigation support, and deposition testimony in numerous matters involving building enclosure and structural systems for clients across the United States.
Start Building Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #297033
This civil engineering expert is a Professional Engineer (P.E.) who holds a B.Sc. in civil engineering from a well-regarded technical institute and has over 40 years of experience in state, federal, and private-sector civil engineering projects, including bridges, roadways, and construction monitoring.
This expert has forensic expertise involving metal building design and construction, flagpole design and installation, tall slender structure design and construction, gantry design, reinforcing bar cage design and fabrication for concrete foundations, and concrete wall design and construction.
This expert is also an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Building Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #303388
This structural engineering expert is a Professional Engineer, Structural Engineer, and LEED AP BD+C registered in over 5 states, including North Carolina, with over 40 years of experience in structural engineering analysis as a designer, consultant, and expert witness.
This expert has consulted on cases involving construction defects, questionable construction or design practices, and structure or building component failures or underperformance. This expert is also an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
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