Once construction disputes and environmental disputes materialize, stakeholders remain focused on their respective project objectives and often postpone the resolution of contract issues. When issues are left unresolved, collaboration between the parties deteriorates, the parties’ positions harden, and the possibility of resolving issues on a business basis continues to diminish. Unresolved construction and environmental issues frequently escalate to formal claims or dispute resolution forums.

The construction experts at Blue Marble Risk Solutions understand the complex business challenges facing our clients and their legal counsel as disputes, claims, and other legal matters arise. As an integral part of the client/consultant/attorney team, our consultants analyze complex construction and environmental issues to advise dispute resolution strategies as consulting experts and deliver expert witness testimony for litigation, arbitration, mediation, and other dispute resolution forums.

Through the collective experience of our experts and our in-depth knowledge of construction and environmental issues and industry best practices and standards of care, we efficiently unravel the complexities of capital projects and present issues in a clear and logical manner to juries or arbitrators. Blue Marble Risk Solutions applies a targeted analytical approach to efficiently identify project failures and focus our analysis and substantiation efforts. Although financial reporting of project cost is where project impacts are realized, the project schedule is often the leading indicator of project issues, providing a comprehensive representation of actual events or circumstances that occurred during project execution. In this regard, our scheduling insight, combined with our unique understanding of industry best practices, facilitates solid and efficient dispute resolution analysis tailored to the facts of the case, the dispute resolution strategy, and the overall business objectives. This approach in conjunction with our proprietary document management system increases our efficiency and allows for a more rapid learning curve of the project issues. We pass these savings to our clients.

Our consultants are nationally recognized and accredited industry experts in the following fields and industries:

Causation and liability determination with construction and engineering projects and environmental matters

• Changed conditions
• Geotechnical & remediation issues
• Project development industry standards
• Project execution industry standards
• Workmanship defects
• Engineering errors & omissions

Project scheduling issues

• As-Planned versus As-Built Analysis
• Window Analysis (Contemporaneous Period Analysis)
• Time Impact Analysis (Fragnet Analysis)
• Impacted As-Planned Analysis
• Collapsed As-Built Analysis (But-For Analysis)

Damage quantification of scope changes, disruptive events, work performance matters, and defective work/material problems

• Change order analysis
• Construction resource productivity analysis
• Cumulative impact analysis
• Earned value analysis