Expert Witness & Dispute Resolution
From pre-construction to closeout, our main objective is to provide clients with the confidence they require to make critical, real-time decisions that will ensure the commercial success of their projects. Abbott’s team of professionals includes experts that specialize in claims preparation and defense. With our first-hand experience in the construction industry, we provide strategic counsel, management, negotiation, and resolution through adjudication or alternative dispute resolution in partnership with the attorneys of represented party.
Expert Witness & Dispute Resolution
One of Abbott’s key differentials is our ability to simplify the construction process from day one with project controls and risk management that ensures pinpoint accuracy and demystified obstacles. Enabling this level of clarity requires expertise and experience to examine the design or construction and discover precisely what went wrong and what the underlying reason was. We forensically analyze and review the project schedules to see clearly where the project may have veered off track, uncovering the root cause of damage, injury, failure to meet standard of care etc., implementing strategies for recovery, and identifying which damages are quantifiable due to the schedule.
Expert Witness & Dispute Resolution
Change order management is a crucial component of a projects’ construction phase. Differences in site circumstances, omissions, errors, construction phase value proposals, delays, or owner modifications can all cause changes. Regardless of where they stem from, all additional expenditures must be evaluated by an expert for their merit and implications to the construction budget and schedule. Abbott has an established change order management procedure in place for detecting, evaluating, and documenting changes that occur throughout the course of a project’s execution. Our approach utilizes techniques that aid in determining which changes to implement and tracking tools to monitor the overall impact on schedule and budget. We pride ourselves in guaranteeing clear documentation throughout the project, immediately proving the clarity and credibility of the change order.
Expert Witness & Dispute Resolution
Our seasoned professionals are skilled in the expert witness arena and have a complete understanding of each phase of the construction process. Our in-depth experience aids in gaining visibility into challenges relating to budgets, schedules, quality control, change orders, financial auditing, contractual and industry expectation, inter and intra disciplinary design coordination, errors and omissions, delay analysis, damage computations, defective construction and more. We also oversee and manage documents to support litigation and arbitration, assist with approach strategizing, and provide definitive evidence, among other efforts to support your litigation and arbitration needs.
Expert Witness & Dispute Resolution
Our Troubled Project Recovery team provides the technical knowledge and a greater understanding of the issues affecting the budget and schedule. We assist clients in recovering the time, costs, and quality, by applying sound management techniques and a control framework, focusing on demystifying the construction process while increasing the efficiency of the process. Abbott’s excerpts leverage our implemented control framework to halt the project from continuing its current trajectory, while forging a path for the project to recover and gain ground quickly.
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Expert Witness & Dispute Resolution
Abbott’s depth of expertise enables us to produce complete design and construction claims, counterclaims, and claim defenses of the highest professional and technical quality. Furthermore, our services cover all elements of resolution, whether an expert report or expert witness evidence is necessary during a mediation, arbitration, or trial.
Utilize Abbott’s expertise to consult with the parties involved, according to the term of appointment. As a consultant, Abbott identifies the facts and law concerning the issues in the dispute, makes inquiries, and performs research and calculations to decide upon the merits of the parties’ positions. Given our authority in technical disciplines relevant to complex projects – from contracts through construction to processes and technology – Abbott experts determine disputes across a wide range of industry sectors.
Expert Witness & Dispute Resolution
Not every project will go as predicted. Any construction project may present challenges in disagreements over plans and specifications, conflicts, change orders, and delays. These occasional issues necessitate immediate action by the owner and associated project teams. Abbott’s professionals have long been sought out to provide alternate dispute resolution, aiding clients with our proven techniques, methodologies, and experience. We leverage our broad network of global industry experts and consultants that we have nurtured after over 45 years in the industry. These tools have given us the foundation to provide you with the appropriate expertise for real-time, on-site dispute resolution through Dispute Resolution Boards, Project Neutral, Mediation, or Arbitration.
