Technical, Standard of Care & Defect

BRG’s standard of care experts help owners, developers, and design professionals deal with issues during the development, design, and construction of complex infrastructure, industrial, and commercial building projects.

Custom Construction Consulting Services for All Phases of Complex Projects

Our professionals develop a customized consulting approach focused on the particular needs of each project. Our multidisciplinary team of professional architects, engineers, schedulers, financial experts, and construction professionals provides comprehensive and customized standard of care consulting services—from analysis and documentation through expert testimony. Our consulting services are designed to assist clients to evaluate professional services received and work product provided.

BRG professionals can evaluate and opine on project development, design, stakeholder roles and responsibilities, construction administration, programmatic standards, work practices, and systems. BRG also has extensive experience providing guidance regarding project governance, budgeting, contracting strategy, planning, scheduling, controls, quality assurance, and the development of an effective project management structure and project oversight team.

Pre-Design and Design Phases Services

Scope definition
Contracting strategy
A/E selection
Contract and scope of work review
Constructability, project status, and coordination reviews
Refinement of solicitation
Financial controls and oversight
Project reporting and monitoring guidance and oversight
Initial cost estimating and budgeting
Budget validation
Construction plan and phasing analyses
Master and detail scheduling guidance and services

Construction Claims and Disputes Services

Design and construction defect analyses
Design team standard of care evaluations
Typical industry practice and standards
Owner, engineering, and construction standard of care evaluations
Evolution of design and change order entitlement
Quantification and entitlement of damages
Claim analysis; delay and disruption analysis
ADR – dispute review boards; mediation and arbitration
Expert testimony and provision of expert witness reports
Analysis of engineering and construction accidents to determine cause and accountability
Evaluation of design and construction defects to predict necessity or likelihood of a simple repair or complete replacement
Building and facility evaluations to assess property conditions and provide estimates of deferred maintenance and repairs