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During the last 35 years, SDC
& Associates, Inc. consultants have gained
considerable experience in arbitration and trial research, case
preparation and strategy, and serving as expert witness.
We have worked both sides of the aisle, plaintiff and defense.
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- Document Discovery and Control
- Drafting/Reviewing Technical Interrogatories and Answers
- Technical Assistance in Depositions and Their Subsequent Analysis
- Schedules and Time Extension Analysis
- Pricing Claims
- Claims Analysis of Third Party Pricing
- Expert Testimony
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Unique
in-courtroom services |
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| SDC & Associates,
Inc. provides full in-courtroom services for all
or part of legal proceedings, assisting in technical matters and
document control. We can help you build a cost-effective notebook
computer database of documents and data cross-referenced and instantly
available during trial. |
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| Moreover, in cases which may hinge on the expert testimony
of adverse witnesses, we assist in real-time, on-the-spot debunking
and evaluation of adverse testimony with obvious benefits to cross-examination
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Advantage:
Insider knowledge for owners |
| We have extensive inner working knowledge of the world
of General Contractors: we know their costing methods and their
methods of cost coding using as-bid budgets. We know how they make
adjustments to cost code accounts and how these cost codes are updated,
monitored and manipulated. We know how change orders and claims
truly affect costs and original bid prices.
We can find hidden costs, duplicated costs and false cost entries
in the contractor's cost records (better you should know before
anyone else). We are able to detect artificially inflated costs
and measure them against what the true costs should be. We know
how to assert and refute the merit of a contractor's submitted
claim costs. And we can prepare documents to reinforce your client's
position by providing an independent comparative C.P.M. schedule
and cost analysis. |
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Special
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| Forensics directories are filled with capable, qualified
expert witnesses, and SDC's
experts are among the finest. But including SDC
in the broader case development can yield these special benefits
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- Recognized Experts Whose Prior Construction Experience Includes
Famous Landmark Projects.
- Uniform, Accepted Pricing of Claim Costs are Assured.
- FULL Claims and Damages Amounts can be Calculated to Include:
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- Delay
- Out-of-sequence Work
- Constructive Acceleration
- Defective Plans and Specifications
- Extended Overhead (Field)
- Extended Overhead (Home Office)
- Differing Site Conditions
- Lost Efficiency
- Labor and Material Escalation
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- Lost Profits and Investment Capital
- Liquidated Damages
- Termination
- Abandonment
- Breach of Contract
- Suspension of Work
- Stop order of Work
- Cardinal Changes
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1997-2006, SDC & Associates, Inc.