Construction Technical, Standard of Care & Defect
BRG’s standard of care experts help owners, developers, and design professionals deal with issues during the development, design, and construction of complex infrastructure, industrial, and commercial building projects.
Custom Construction Consulting Services for All Phases of Complex Projects
Our professionals develop a customized consulting approach focused on the particular needs of each project. Our multidisciplinary team of professional architects, engineers, schedulers, financial experts, and construction professionals provides comprehensive and customized standard of care consulting services—from analysis and documentation through expert testimony. Our consulting services are designed to assist clients to evaluate professional services received and work product provided.
BRG professionals can evaluate and opine on project development, design, stakeholder roles and responsibilities, construction administration, programmatic standards, work practices, and systems. BRG also has extensive experience providing guidance regarding project governance, budgeting, contracting strategy, planning, scheduling, controls, quality assurance, and the development of an effective project management structure and project oversight team.
Pre-Design and Design Phases Services
- Scope definition
- Contracting strategy
- A/E selection
- Contract and scope of work review
- Constructability, project status, and coordination reviews
- Refinement of solicitation
- Financial controls and oversight
- Project reporting and monitoring guidance and oversight
- Initial cost estimating and budgeting
- Budget validation
- Construction plan and phasing analyses
- Master and detail scheduling guidance and services
Construction Claims and Disputes Services
- Design and construction defect analyses
- Design team standard of care evaluations
- Typical industry practice and standards
- Owner, engineering, and construction standard of care evaluations
- Evolution of design and change order entitlement
- Quantification and entitlement of damages
- Claim analysis; delay and disruption analysis
- ADR – dispute review boards; mediation and arbitration
- Expert testimony and provision of expert witness reports
- Analysis of engineering and construction accidents to determine cause and accountability
- Evaluation of design and construction defects to predict necessity or likelihood of a simple repair or complete replacement
- Building and facility evaluations to assess property conditions and provide estimates of deferred maintenance and repairs
