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 Florida, Jacksonville, Orlando, Tallahassee, and Miami - 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 our work:
Contemporary Resort Hotel, Disney World, Orlando, FL
The project was one year behind schedule and seriously over budget when Paul Gogulski was hired to oversee design and construction of Disney’s award winning Contemporary Resort Hotel. Disney planned five (5) hotels for concurrent opening at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, .but only two were authorized for construction due to delays in design and insufficient funds. As one part of the solution, United States Steel Corporation agreed to finance and build the two hotels with the provision that the structural design would be changed from concrete to steel. Disney hired a select team from General Electric’s Real Estate and Construction Operation to administer the contracts and oversee the hotels. Mr. Gogulski was a key member of that team.
The Contemporary Resort Hotel was Disney’s show piece, but became a nightmare as delays continued to prevent starting in the field. As an example, the monorail was originally intended to connect to an outside platform, but when Disney remarked “Wouldn’t it be great to run the monorail inside instead of outside” the architects immediately stated “no problem” and enthusiastically produced drawings which showed the monorail entering at the 5th floor level, one story above the main concourse. What they didn’t state was the fact that the structure supporting the monorail must be completely independent from the hotel’s structural system. This required major revisions to footings, columns and platforms, as well as two “air doors” with state of art controls to allow the air conditioning to work with openings at both ends of the hotel.
This was an unusually complicated project, with over 1,000 hotel units manufactured off site and set in place on inclined cables. Paul played a key role in reducing cost and completing the project on schedule. Most of the technical problems were resolved when Mr. Gogulski insisting that the architect, Welton Becket, commit two of their key design personnel on site full time, In addition, the work was expedited to include two 12 hour shifts, seven days/week among 1200 craft workers and subcontractors. Coordination meetings were held before 8:00AM and after 5:00PM in order to avoid loss of production.