Construction Equipment Expert Witnesses
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What is a construction equipment expert witness?
Construction equipment expert witness candidates are typically professional engineers with a background in automotive engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and/or civil engineering. Potential candidates for litigation related to construction equipment may be intellectual property expert witnesses. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, legal counsel may request a specialist with prior expert witness experience.
What types of cases require a construction equipment expert witness?
A construction equipment expert could provide expertise in intellectual property matters such as a patent litigation or trade secret dispute. A forensic engineer is skilled at proving (or disproving) intellectual property infringement or theft.
Construction equipment expert witness case examples
Cahn Litigation Services has seen construction equipment matters involving:
- gantry crane hoist accident in Connecticut,
- forklift technology,
- product safety forensic investigation,
- premises liability,
- certified safety professional (CSP) qualifications,
- industrial accident fire origin,
- New Jersey construction site safety standards and safety training,
- OSHA regulations relating to industrial equipment,
- Certified Fire & Explosion Investigator (CFEI) to support a New York site explosion investigation,
- industrial accident reconstruction in Michigan,
- material handling equipment,
- aerial lifts, and
- Colorado construction defects and property damage.
What litigation support work might a construction equipment expert witness be expected to perform?
An engineering expert specializing in construction equipment might provide litigation support services in matters such as product liability cases, personal injury cases, or accident investigations. In addition, clients may seek a construction industry specialist for pre-litigation consulting services. Expert witness services could include research and authoring expert reports, forensic engineering, providing expert opinions, failure analyses, accident reconstruction, and expert witness testimony in the courtroom.
Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a construction equipment expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
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Construction Equipment Expert Witness - Representative Bios
Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.
The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Construction Equipment experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Construction Equipment landscape.
Expert Witness #245269
This expert has served as an independent consultant and expert witness in the Automotive engineering arena for many years. This expert's specific areas of focus are in Vehicle Powertrains, Vehicle Electronics, Throttle Controls, Shift Controls, and Braking Systems across primarily Passenger Vehicles, but also Heavy Duty Trucks, Off-Road Construction Vehicles, and Military Equipment. This expert's senior engineering positions allowed this expert to cross technology and product boundaries while performing field performance assessments, engine management system evaluations, and powertrain technical investigations. This expert is a member of the IEEE Standards Association and the Society of Automotive Engineers VEDI Standards Committee.
Start Construction Equipment Expert SearchExpert Witness #251086
This expert is President, CEO and Principal Engineer for a highly sought-after engineering consultancy. A Graduate Mechanical Engineer with many years of professional, domestic and international engineering system design & material defect analysis experience, this expert has been called upon to examine and investigate numerous design, fabrication and operational issues related to various processes being performed, items being fabricated and parts being produced in volumes and at rapid rates. These have included the designing and overseeing of the installation of 83 brand new production lines of machinery and equipment for the production of diapers and various feminine hygiene products. Additionally, this expert has investigated the assembly line and product defect failures associated with juice packet spout application failures which caused excessive product leakage and large storage issues. Such design and product assembly processes relied heavily on photoelectric cells, high speed counters, adjustable guideways and multiple mechanical assemblies that directed parts into specific positions in order to be mated up with other components all at excessively high speeds. These efforts ranged from the insert of the raw materials to the folded or packaged finished product ready for shipment. Over the course of this expert's years of design, fabrication, construction and project management work combined with years of mechanical investigation and testing experience, this expert has centered work around mechanical system and material component analyses. Retained by both national and international insurance organizations, plaintiff and defense law firms and private industry to perform mechanical equipment assessments and causation evaluations, this expert has extensive prior litigation history including deposition and courtroom testimony.
Start Construction Equipment Expert SearchExpert Witness #255188
This expert is Principal of an appraisal firm with many years of experience as full time appraiser. Certified by the American Society of Appraisers with a Senior Appraiser designation in the Machinery & Technical Specialties Discipline, this expert has completed machinery and equipment appraisals, including:
- Transportation Equipment
- Manufacturing Equipment
- Material Handling Equipment
- Scrap Metal Recycle
- Construction/Agriculture Equipment
This expert has a wide range of appraisal experience with emphasis in providing valuations for Internal Revenue Service (IRS) appraisal requirements, Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) requirements, bankruptcy appraisals, insurance appraisals, and casualty loss appraisals. This expert has provided both Restricted and Full Appraisal Reports, and has served as an expert witness being deposed and testifying in court.
Start Construction Equipment Expert SearchExpert Witness #255238
This expert is an independent consultant in the safe use and design of construction, industrial, and agricultural equipment. This expert's experience includes the evaluation of product design, warnings development and safety and operational training. This expert served as a delegate on various ISO and ANSI subcommittees and is as a noted authority on lifting equipment safety.
Start Construction Equipment Expert SearchExpert Witness #255935
This expert specializes in the economic analysis of intellectual property, including the assessment of economic alternatives, lost profits, price erosion, reasonable royalties, and other valuation/damages issues. This expert also has extensive experience providing detailed analyses and expert reports, evaluating antitrust issues and economic damages associated with false advertising, antitrust, fraud, termination, and business interference claims. This expert has frequently served as an expert witness on significant patent infringement matters and has testified on patent infringement damages in trial in district courts across the United States. This expert has also provided testimony at hearings at the International Trade Commission, and in trial and arbitrations in other matters throughout America and in Sweden.
As an economic consultant, this expert has worked on projects covering hundreds of companies from numerous high-technology industries, including consumer electronics, information services, semiconductors, computers and components, TVs and displays, software and games, as well as telecommunications (including cell phones and mobile networks), broadcasting, automotive, oilfield equipment, biotechnology and medical equipment. In addition to leading to expert testimony, these efforts include assisting in the evaluation and negotiation of patent license agreements. With extensive, continuous exposure to leading company and industry information sources, this expert has acquired a comprehensive knowledge of the competitive, licensing and financial environments. This expert also has expertise with economic analysis in a number of other industries, including real estate, construction, entertainment, and consumer goods. This expert has also written and lectured on patent damages and intellectual property valuation. This expert holds an MA and BA in Economics .
Start Construction Equipment Expert SearchExpert Witness #257365
This expert is a Ph.D. in Engineering Materials and this expert's work in (specifically) concrete has provided extensive field-experience. This expert is currently President of a consulting firm that provides expertise in concrete production and performance. Previously this expert was Vice President Engineering for a concrete company and before that was a principal engineer with a construction engineering company where this expert had day-to-day responsibilities for the soils, asphalt, aggregate and concrete operations. This expert serves as an adjunct professor in the Construction Management Program at a State University. This expert is a member of ASTM and the American Concrete Institute. This expert is a registered Professional Engineer. This expert has been an expert witness has experience with depositions and trial testimony.
Start Construction Equipment Expert SearchExpert Witness #257374
This expert has many years of experience pouring and mixing concrete and being the supervising engineer on over a thousand projects. Most of these concrete jobs involved concrete that was pumped through hoses from delivery trucks to the point of placement - the type of projects which are the target market for a hose puller. This expert's knowledge, training and experience involving the challenges and difficulties of placing concrete from pump hoses under great weights and pressures allows this expert to understand the difficulties of utilizing the equipment with and without mechanical assistance (hose pullers). This expert has taken CLE courses and participated in a Trial Advocacy Project and is a Licensed Contractor.
Start Construction Equipment Expert SearchExpert Witness #216341
This expert provides Expert Witness, Investigation, and Technical Consulting services for Industrial Control Systems, Automated Systems, and Safety Systems. This expert has litigated several cases that involve PLC ladder logic, and has designed scores of systems which utilize PLC code. This expert manages an automation engineering group, and writes/analyzes PLC code virtually every day. Experience includes:
Automated Machinery – Manufacturing Plants, Production Plants
Robotics – Assembly Lines, Semiconductor Plants, Packaging Plants
Control Systems – PLC Controls, Computer Controlled Machines
Automatic and Revolving Doors
Amusement Park Rides – Control Systems, Safety Systems
Bowling Centers – Equipment Systems
Mining – Surface and Strip Mining, Coal, Quarry, Minerals, Oilsands, Conveyors, and Crushers
Lasers – Etching Equipment, Production Lines
Egg Production and Packaging
Food and Beverage Plants – Snack Foods, Cereal, Pasta, Soft Drinks, Beer, Meat Packaging
Breweries
Conveyors – Belt Conveyors, Bucket Conveyors, Packaging Machines, Vibratory Systems
Wood Production – Sawmills, Chippers, Wood Pellet Plants
Patents – Control Systems, Automated Devices, Production and Manufacturing Machines
Contract Disputes – Control Systems, Production Equipment, Manufacturing Equipment
This expert has acquired many years of experience in electrical, electronic, automation, robotics, bulk materials handling, and mechanical system design. As an inventor, this expert holds several electronic and mechanical patents. This expert’s technical background includes extensive experience with digital logic circuits, vision systems, laser research involving Co2 lasers (Class 4 100 watt), and laser diodes (Class 3B). This expert has established and managed several engineering, CAD, automation, and field service groups, for deployment of automated machinery in the food, beverage, refinery, coal, oil sands, pharmaceutical, and chemical plant industries. Most of this work carried over to the field, where this expert managed electrical and mechanical field construction projects.
This expert’s memberships have included ISA (Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society), and AEE (The Association of Energy Engineers). Authorships include Whitepapers for RAM (Remote Asset Management), Energy Management, Automation, and cGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practice) for FDA related validation procedures in lab environments. Intellectual property and patent experience includes work as a Technical Expert Witness involving patent infringement and automation related accidents.
Start Construction Equipment Expert SearchExpert Witness #238561
This expert is a Professional Engineer with Mechanical Engineering, Structural Engineering, and Civil Engineering degrees and certificates. This expert has a good deal of ladder logic experience within the context of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) and Computer Numerical Controls (CNC). This expert was engaged in the design, manufacture, installation and startup of robotic pick and place machinery, performing all engineering calculations necessary in the design of these robotic machines and programming the PLCs during the initial installation period. This expert has also dealt with the design and construction of industrial material handling systems, such as conveyors, piping systems, crane, monorails, robotics, PLCs, hydraulics, pneumatics and electrical controls. This expert had sole responsibility for designing, installing, programming and startup of CNC for manufacturing machine equipment, including selection of components, ladder logic programming, modification of machinery, and machine design. This expert holds two U.S. Patents and is working on two others. This expert has been engaged as an expert witness in a number of cases.
Start Construction Equipment Expert SearchExpert Witness #231365
This mechanical engineering expert holds a B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, is a P.E., and has over 15 years of R&D and design experience involving failure investigations of mechanical systems, including automotive components, bearings, and gear trains. This expert currently serves as a forensic engineer working on a broad variety of mechanical equipment, as well as patent disputes and products liability cases.
This expert has experience in R&D and design of mechanical products and holds over 20 U.S. and international patents. This expert designed and developed frac pumps and oilfield equipment for over 10 years at a major oilfield services company and under-hood automotive components for over 5 years at an automotive components manufacturer. This expert has designed, tested, and inspected equipment with journal, ball, and roller bearings, including high-horsepower, high-pressure frac pump equipment using journal and roller bearings, and has also designed equipment with polymeric bearings.
This expert has completed training courses at a prestigious technology institution and through a professional automotive engineering society in tribology, lubrication, friction and wear, and elastohydrodynamic lubrication. This expert has served as a forensic engineer for over 20 years, testifying in state and federal courts for both plaintiff and defense matters. This expert has also served on patent cases, including IPR and PGR proceedings, and has submitted reports and testified regarding infringement, validity, claim construction, IPRs, and PGRs.
Start Construction Equipment Expert SearchExpert Witness #250349
This mechanical engineering and heavy equipment safety expert is a Mechanical Engineer and Certified Safety Professional with decades of experience involving heavy equipment trucks.
This expert has worked in the concrete industry around both front-discharge and rear-discharge cement mixing trucks, including on crews that poured concrete foundation walls for residential and agricultural structures. This expert is familiar with PPE requirements and hazards associated with cement mixing equipment and has extensive experience reading, analyzing, and applying OSHA regulations regarding powered industrial trucks under 29 CFR 1910.178, along with experience involving OSHA construction regulations under 29 CFR 1926.
Start Construction Equipment Expert SearchExpert Witness #280918
This scaffolding safety expert is knowledgeable about OSHA scaffold, ladder, fall protection, and related construction regulations and industry safety standards, and has taught safety courses on these subjects. This expert has provided scaffold expert witness and consulting services for over 30 years for accidents involving scaffolds and ladders, falls from heights, and construction equipment rental accepted practices, and has been qualified and accepted as a scaffold expert in numerous state and federal courts to testify on applicable OSHA and ANSI standards.
This expert has also served as a consultant to a federal labor agency in relation to OSHA regulations regarding scaffolds.
Start Construction Equipment 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 Construction Equipment Expert SearchExpert Witness #293873
This mechanical engineering expert is a licensed Professional Engineer with graduate degrees in engineering and has inspected and tested agricultural tractors, skid steer loaders, construction equipment, commercial trucks and trailers, plow trucks, motorcycles, and passenger vehicles as part of forensic engineering investigations and accident reconstructions. This expert has family farming experience and familiarity with agricultural implements, harvesters, and tractors, including maintenance and operation of farm equipment, experience with a variety of industrial equipment, and engineering assessments involving valves and similar equipment for diverse applications.
This expert has experience inspecting spreaders and sprayers, as well as reviewing original equipment manufacturer engineering design documents and maintenance records in matters involving agricultural and construction equipment.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Construction Equipment Expert SearchExpert Witness #294343
This concrete construction expert owns and manages a construction company, consults, and serves as a testifying expert, with over 40 years of experience in concrete construction, including the safe operation of heavy equipment and trucks.
This expert has extensive experience with concrete mixers, is a CDL Class A licensed truck driver, is well versed in applicable FMCSA regulations, and holds diplomas in construction management and OSHA construction safety. This expert has also handled a number of personal injury cases involving concrete mixers in multiple jurisdictions.
This expert has significant expert witness experience.
Start Construction Equipment Expert SearchExpert Witness #297118
This construction equipment expert operates a risk management firm and provides expertise across construction safety, forensic investigation, and accident cause analysis.
This expert has over 50 years of construction-industry experience, including experience with hiring, firing, OSHA, PPE, attire, ADA, discrimination issues, employment practices, driver hiring, and driver qualifications. This expert formerly held a CDL and has operated ready-mix trucks, including front-discharge and rear-discharge trucks, as well as batch concrete trucks.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
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