DH Consulting Group Core Capabilities

Construction and/or Design Deficiency – Error or Omission Claims:

General

  • Evaluate and assess overall quality and completeness of claim submissions
  • Perform initial review of specifications, plans, drawings, pertinent job records, contract modifications/change orders and other project documentation to evaluate claim issue entitlement determinations

Technical Evaluations

  • Perform detailed reviews of underlying technical claim assertions
  • Perform preliminary evaluations of completeness of specifications, plans and drawings
  • Assess and evaluate claim productivity analysis methodologies
  • Perform detailed evaluations of construction claims involving: means and methods issues; CM issues, differing site conditions; delays and impacts; work disruption; non-major engineering or design issues; or acceleration

Pre-Bid Document Review

  • Perform claim avoidance bid document design plan reviews
  • Assess technical validity of cost recovery actions / claims

Schedule Analysis

  • Perform preliminary CPM schedule reviews and validation of underlying facts and assumptions
  • Perform preliminary evaluations of assertions concerning schedule as-bid versus as-built conditions

Construction Accounting & Audit

  • Review and assess reasonability of major accounting, pricing and estimating assumptions
  • Perform claim quantum analysis and recalculation of claim cost values
  • Assist management of forensic claim and cost audit expert scopes of work

ADR Participation

  • Attend and participate in technical claim review meetings
  • Present to non-engineers technical or engineering issues /concepts central to a claim or defense
  • Attend and participate in claim negotiations (allocation of responsibility) re: technical issues
  • Assist in technical and damages presentation to Mediators

Experts Management

  • Assist management of expert witness budgets and technical work product
 

 

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