Gogulski & Associates Inc
We have the experience and technical excellence to provide expert witness testimony for all matters concerning construction. When you need expert testimony, you need both knowledge and experience to support this testimony. At Gogulski & Associates Inc, we provide our expertise to provide testimony for construction accidents and construction investigations.
The Value of Experience
We have 30 years experience in commercial, residential, and industrial construction as well as 10 years expert witness testimony in more than 150 cases nationwide. Gogulski & Associates Inc is your source for a Georgia, Atlanta, Columbus, Savannah, and Macon - construction expert witness. This wide base of experience allows us to speak with authority on a wide range of matters in the construction field.
Our satisfied customers can attest to the value of having such well supported testimony backing up their cases. We pair technical excellence with results. Still, this wide experience is not all we offer.
The Personal Touch
Even with all of this experience and success, we continue to devote our complete undivided attention to each and every client. This careful attention to each matter that a client brings before us allows you to receive the maximum benefit of our experience as it applies to your unique situation. We know that your main concern is how our expertise can be brought to bear on your behalf. We focus our efforts to make sure that you are satisfied with our services.
Cases of All Sizes
We believe that cases of all sizes must be treated with the same care and deserve the same focused attention. Your case, no matter what the size, is important to you and it is just as important to us. Your satisfaction with our expert witness services is the most important thing whether you need a personal injury expert and a forensic construction expert or an OSHA expert witness and some other type of construction litigation expert witness. No matter what type of forensic construction expert witness or forensic engineering expert you need, we will provide the services that you need with the expertise that you expect from us.
Construction litigation services require knowledge, experience, and the ability to communicate effectively. Our ability to explain these complex matters simply both in and out of court makes us the ones you want representing you. Your issues may involve quality control, insurance claims, construction defects, code compliance, site safety, construction delays, construction accidents, design errors and omissions, failure to perform, OSHA violations, standards of care or many other issues. The bottom line is that we can provide all the expert testimony that you need.
Below is an example of some of our work:
Las Vegas Monorail, Las Vegas, Nevada
The Las Vegas monorail was a joint venture between Granite Construction Company and Bombardier who supplied the monorail and operated the system. A $50,000 per day liquidated damage clause was included in the contract which Zurich Insurance Company agreed to insure as part of their coverage for performance. Because the critical path schedule contained one year of float, everyone felt safe as the project started. To the surprise of all parties, the one year float was not enough as delays and unforeseen issues accumulated throughout the project. Seven months after the scheduled completion date, the monorail failed to meet performance standards for public use, and Zurich Insurance Company was notified of their obligations to pay 30 million for liquidated damages.
A team of experts was formed to investigate the cause of delay and report facts to Zurich’s London office. Gogulski & Associates was a key part of that team.
As the critical path was analyzed, it became apparent that flawed logic and incomplete data was presented during monthly updates. The analysis proved significant manipulation occurred to conceal facts and avoid the issues where failure to perform prevailed. As an example, the activities used to make up the schedule totaled over 4,000 and varied month to month. . One month, 2,500 activities would be deleted and 1,000 new activities added. The entire scheduling process was flawed and failed to provide a realistic critical path.
After analysis, Gogulski & Associates found substantial owner caused delays which were omitted from the claim process during the course of construction. This presented a political problem as Zurich did not want to penalize their client who has a long standing relationship and many larger fully insured projects. Instead, the presentation to Zurich relied on the delays relating to new and unproved technology for system controls. This case was settled privately in London among the barristers and attorneys using the facts established by Gogulski and other team members.