Kent Winger is a principal with more than 40 years of claims experience. Since joining Delve Underground in 1989, he has been providing construction claims and delay analysis services to public and private owners on a wide variety of projects. He is skilled at claims preparation and analysis, strategic claims avoidance, and contract administration and management on construction projects.
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Construction Claims Services
Our construction claims group provides successful results to our clients analyzing complex entitlement issues, schedule delays, productivity and disruption matters, and construction costs. We have successfully provided these services on thousands of claims assignments.
Our claims teams include registered professional engineers, juris doctors, certified cost engineers, certified planning and scheduling professionals, and graphics presentation specialists. Our teams are skilled at preparing reports, developing graphics that convey our findings, and presenting these findings at various dispute resolution forums.
What sets us apart from other claims and accounting firms is our group’s construction experience and technical competence, supplemented by expertise of our technical engineering, design, and construction management groups. Our claims professionals regularly rely on these in-house subject matter experts to assist with evaluating technical entitlement issues.
We provide the following claims-related services to public and private owners, contractors, subcontractors, fabricators, insurance companies, and attorneys:
- Preparing construction claims
- Evaluating Requests for Equitable Adjustment (REAs)
- Determining the basis for entitlement, whether the facts support the entitlement, and whether the entitlement is justified by provisions in the contract documents and other recognized precedent
- Analyzing CPM schedules, including baseline and schedule updates, and time impact analyses (TIAs)
- Evaluating impacts to schedules because of project delays
- Determining loss of labor productivity
- Evaluating time-related and other damages
- Presenting our analyses at mediations and providing expert witness testimony at dispute review boards, arbitrations, and trials
- Risk evaluation and mitigation with respect to scheduling issues
