A construction cost estimating expert witness with 38 years of experience, this professional specializes in cost estimating, cost control, proposal analysis, value engineering, scheduling, and project management. More than 10 years of expert witness experience includes consultations, deposition testimony, courtroom testimony, and arbitration matters. Documented assignments have involved unpaid change orders, property damage, condemnation and eminent domain proceedings, adverse possession, contractor termination, and disputes involving contractors, subcontractors, and property owners.

Leadership responsibilities have included service as Chief Estimator with responsibility for coordinating cost consulting services. Project experience spans residential, commercial, office, educational, institutional, public, high-rise, restoration, site development, transportation, and heavy construction work. Cost consulting has been performed throughout multiple stages of design, with value engineering assignments involving schools, colleges, hospitals, courthouses, detention facilities, water pollution control plants, bridges, tunnels, and other infrastructure. Estimating work includes use of Timberline, Success, and Excel cost-estimating programs supported by RS Means data.

Professional qualifications include the Certified Cost Professional designation and membership in AACE International and the Society of American Value Engineers. Educational preparation includes formal study in quantity surveying and construction technology, together with a Certificate in Construction Management; a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree is not identified in the supplied materials. His professional background also includes extensive construction-industry experience preceding his long-term cost consulting work.

Beyond project estimating, the expert has taught construction estimating and related subjects for 15 years in certificate, diploma, and graduate-level programs. Courses have included fundamentals of cost estimating, construction drawings and plans, project budgeting in estimating, and construction cost estimating. This combination of estimating practice, value engineering, cost control, construction education, and expert testimony supports evaluation of project costs, change orders, property valuation, construction damages, and other disputed cost issues.