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With subject matter experts globally, VERTEX is the go-to recource for matters involving construction, design, compliance, regulatory, contracts, and more.

Witness Our Experts

Because we have collaborative teams of technical professionals alongside forensics experts, we practice what we preach. We offer expert services on megaprojects and high-profile real estate and other property or construction claims throughout the globe. VERTEX is the go-to resource for forensics, contract claims, delay and disruption, commercial damages, standard of care, cost-of-repair, environmental and construction disputes, government contracts, intellectual property, and more. We also help clients assess and allocate liabilities, and evaluate plaintiff declarations to determine reasonable costs.

VERTEX’s services that support construction claims often include failure analysis, evaluation of the status of completion of a construction or design project at the time of the default, and review and analysis of contracts against claims for the cost of finishing interrupted construction projects. If you are an attorney or in-house counsel with cases involving design claims, construction claims, property development claims, environmental claims, safety claims, commercial damages, or government contract matters, VERTEX has your expert witness.

WHY VERTEX

VERTEX has experienced and qualified experts that work on large scale construction, and environmental disputes, government contracts, compliance disputes and more. Our expert witnesses have been an integral part of the legal team with construction claims from sureties, suppliers, subcontractors, designers, owners, and developers. We have been successful in bringing favorable and just settlements to every type of construction claim including infrastructure such as roadways and rail-transit development, military bases, marinas, solar developments, schools and higher education developments, industrial and chemical sites, and commercial and public buildings just to name a few.

VERTEX is unique in that we tender our cost of repair reports as formal bids to complete the work. This verifies the legitimacy of our estimates and promotes fair settlements.

Construction Cost Overruns, Delay and Disruption

VERTEX offers Critical Path Method (CPM) Scheduling Experts who are actively working on construction projects.

VERTEX offers construction experts who have successfully navigated these contentious claims, despite the challenges of distinguishing losses contemporaneously during productivity claims.

VERTEX experts are also actively managing construction projects, and therefore offer a unique advantage on acceleration construction claims.

Accurate construction cost estimates and fair fault allocation solutions by VERTEX experts for seamless negotiations.

VERTEX’s experts opine on hidden or changed site conditions for construction damages claims.

VERTEX opines on construction damages claims that involved added scopes of work.

Environmental and Industrial Hygiene

VERTEX experts excel in environmental expert witness work on “Cost,” offering a range of services including cost allocation modeling and expert testimony.

VERTEX excels in environmental scope claims for issues on, air quality, hygiene, Superfund cases, and hazardous waste.

VERTEX’s experts tackle complex environmental delay claims & defects using forensic scheduling techniques, ensuring accurate assessments.

VERTEX’s experts navigate environmental compliance in legal proceedings and projects, covering air quality, Superfund cases, and hazardous waste issues.

Standard of Care

VERTEX opines on the degree of care that a reasonable contractor should exercise.

VERTEX opines on the degree of care that was exercised during a contractor termination.

VERTEX opines on the degree of care that a real estate owner takes while their site is under construction.

VERTEX opines on the standard that would be exercised by a reasonably prudent architect/building envelope expert.

VERTEX opines on the degree of care that was exercised by a structural engineering design firm.

VERTEX opines on the degree of care that was exercised by a site civil engineering design firm.

VERTEX opines on the degree of care that was exercised by a heavy civil engineering design firm.

VERTEX opines on the degree of care that a reasonable geotechnical consultant has exercised.

VERTEX opines on the degree of care that a reasonable mechanical, electrical, plumbing contractor should exercise.

VERTEX opines on fire protection systems failure to operate adequately during a fire incident.

VERTEX opines on the safety protocols that are reasonable to exercise.

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