Construction Expert Witness Testimony

Due to the technical and multifaceted nature of construction work, construction claims are often complex and challenging to navigate. Issues like delays or change orders can arise anytime during a project, and they’re not always easy to resolve — especially if contractual language is unclear. These issues can lead to a claim, multiple claims, or complicated disputes that pause project progression or escalate to litigation.

Proving the underlying cause of a claim with factual evidence and accurately quantifying the damages is crucial to achieving fair outcomes. However, it can be challenging to gather the necessary evidence and establish credibility to persuade the trier of fact. For all these reasons, construction claims often require an expert to thoroughly and objectively evaluate claims and testify to the facts.

Spire Consulting Group offers the skills and experience required to investigate and analyze construction project documents, create factual reports, and provide expert witness testimony to help stakeholders understand the impacts and damages that occurred on the project.

Spire’s Expert Witness Testimony Process

With our extensive background in construction, engineering, and forensic investigation, our construction expert witness testimony provides a credible account to any trier of fact, such as an arbitrator, mediator, jury or judge.

As industry experts with real-world experience, we can give you the data you need to make well-informed, fact-based decisions, whether you’re making or receiving a claim. Combined with our dispute resolution services, we can help you resolve complex disputes promptly or mitigate litigation.

We take a phased approach to problem-solving and ensure transparency throughout our process:

1. Investigate

First, we’ll dive deeply into the issue, thoroughly examining and analyzing the relevant documentation through an expert lens. This may entail forensic investigation of schedules, contracts, bid estimates, change orders, design documents, and correspondence.

Once we understand the facts of what happened on a project, we can perform a detailed analysis to quantify the resulting damages and substantiate the impacts.

2. Report

We’ll create an objective, clear, and concise report of our findings. We understand the importance of conveying technical concepts in a way that a jury, judge, or arbitration panel can understand. Whether in our expert reports or oral testimony, we have experience communicating complex issues, events, and impacts in a manner that others can follow. 

3. Present

Prior to testifying, we’ll do the homework and preparation necessary to ensure we testify to the facts, analysis, and damages in a manner that is easy to follow and compelling. Our experts have a proven track record of providing reports and testimony that support favorable outcomes for our clients.

Types of Expert Witness Services

As an expert testimony provider for construction, we have experience with construction projects across a broad range of industries and countries and are familiar with a wide variety of engineering and construction practices used around the world. This experience helps us understand how events may impact a project and quantify the cost and schedule adjustments that may be appropriate. Spire’s independence means you will receive an unbiased evaluation of the impacts and damages.

Whether you’re a project owner, contractor, subcontractor, program manager, architect, or attorney, we’re equipped to provide the insight necessary to help you build a strong case. We can provide expert witness testimony, as well as construction consulting on nearly any aspect of a project or claim. Our services include:

• Claims evaluation and quantification: Whether you need to defend a claim or respond to one, we can assist you in validating entitlement and quantifying damages.
• Damages analysis and quantification: We can help you and the relevant stakeholders understand the damages associated with a claim by providing detailed analysis and calculations.
• Construction defect evaluation: We’ll determine the root cause of a construction defect through careful examination and provide estimated costs to correct the issue.
• Construction productivity loss: With our deep knowledge of productivity controls and impacts, we can identify the underlying reason for productivity loss and quantify the costs.
• Arbitration and mediation support: We’ll help you prepare for arbitration or mediation with our expert analysis and easy-to-understand reports.
• Expert consulting: We can consult you on any construction-related issue, from project management challenges to contractual disagreements.

Contact Our Expert Witnesses for Building Construction Testimony

By leveraging our expertise in construction consulting and forensic investigation of contracts and other project documents, we can thoroughly evaluate the issues surrounding your case.

As a full-service consulting firm, our first step is to understand your needs and how we can best support you. To learn more about our services, contact us today.