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Detailed estimates of repair or reconstruction costs based on damage assessment

Valuation

A building collapses in a loss incident. Up goes a new building, but the new building is not the same.

A chemical facility is damage in an explosion and a consequent fire. Up goes a replacement facility, but the replacement facility is not the same. It may even be reconstructed for an entirely different process, or perhaps the facility is not to be reconstructed at all.

These scenarios and many more to a point to a need for an independent repair estimate of a loss. Here is where having both engineering and project management experience makes a difference.

Valuation involves many tasks:

  • Providing a preliminary estimate (loss reserve)
  • Assessing and segregating damage (see Damage Assessment)
  • Developing cost comparisons
  • Researching the means for expediting the repair
  • Determining actual cash value/replacement cost
  • And more

For a variety of commercial and industrial applications:

  • Buildings and Buildings Systems
  • Gas Production/Transmission/Distribution
  • Power Generation/Distribution
  • Utilities
  • Mining
  • Manufacturing
  • Fibers and Textiles
  • Petroleum
  • Wood Products/Papermaking
  • Chemical/Pharmaceutical
  • Food and Beverage

 

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Automotive / Vehicle

  • Drive Shaft Fracture in Boat Engine
  • Fracture Surface Determines Cause of Boat Damage
  • Head-On Collision Reconstruction
  • Heavy Vehicle Tire Failure
  • Stolen-Recovered-Burned Vehicle
  • Suspicious Fire or Just Another Hot Wire?
  • Uncontrolled Acceleration of a Vehicle

Fires & Explosions

  • A Fire 14 Months in the Making
  • Cargo Catches Fire
  • Explosion Levels Boarding House
  • Fire Traced to Cook Top
  • Suspicious Fire or Just Another Hot Wire?

Materials Testing & Analysis

  • Drive Shaft Fracture in Boat Engine
  • Hot Water Faucet Injury
  • What Led to Lead Bath Pan Fracture?

Products

  • Door Closer Evaluation
  • Hot Water Faucet Injury
  • Wheelbarrow Injury

Property

  • Ceiling Collapse
  • Moisture Damage Weakens Floor Framing
  • Pre or Post-Storm Damage?
  • Premature Aging of a Shingled Roof
  • Shrinking Soil and Foundation Settlement
  • Water Intrusion Into a Commercial Building
  • Water-Damaged Stucco
  • Wind Damage to Dock Structure

Workplace

  • Aerial Lift Operator Injury
  • Fatality Involving Fractured Gate Valve Housing

Construction

  • Construction Error or Design Defect?
  • Design Defect: Agricultural Storage Bins
  • Distressed Floors, Distressed Walls, Distressed Design Methodology

Failure Analysis

  • Hip Replacement Screw Fracture Analysis
  • Medical Instrument Failure Analysis
  • Moped Accident and a Fractured Gear Tooth
  • Plastic Boat Seat and a Fatality
  • Tour Bus Fire Failure Analysis

Products

  • Injury at a Guarded Location
  • Negligence on the Job and Injured Workers

Claim Review and Analysis

  • Gasoline Storage Tank Fire
  • Pipeline Compressor Fire
  • Power Plant Boiler Explosion
  • Power System and Operating Unit Incidents
  • Water Damage to Electrical Equipment

Damage Assessment

  • Embankment Erosion
  • Fire-Related Damage to a Food Processing Facility
  • Making Sense of Four Fallen Container Cranes
  • Which Came First - The Fire or the Overspeed?

Litigation Support

  • Microbiological Corrosion
  • Winery Contamination

Origin and Cause

  • A Fire 14 Months in the Making
  • A Power Loss and a Damaged High Voltage Transformer
  • Communications Tower Collapse
  • Power Shovel Fire
  • What Led to Lead Bath Pan Fracture?

Repair/ Reconstruction Monitoring

  • Power Station Incident
  • Structural Monitoring of Problematic Construction

Valuation

  • Ammonia Refrigeration System Moisture Damage
  • Fire and Explosion in a Process Furnace
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