Cogent Expert’s, LLC Expert Witness & Forensics Offerings
Cogent Experts, LLC is pleased to provide expert witness services as required for mediation, arbitration and court matters. A legitimate expert witness and forensics consultant can bring a legal matter to a proper conclusion. Cogent’s expertise comprises:
EXPERT WITNESS CONSTRUCTION OFFERINGS
Construction
Construction Scheduling
Construction Delay
Construction Defect
Engineering Standard of Care
Architectural Standard of Care
Construction Delay Analysis
Construction Schedule Analysis
Critical Path Determination
EXPERT WITNESS ENGINEERING OFFERINGS
Professional Engineering
Engineering Management
Mechanical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Process and Chemical Engineering
Construction Engineering
Energy Power Utilities
Process Safety and Risk Management
Process Hazards Analysis
EXPERT WITNESS FACILITIES OFFERINGS
Facilities
Operations Management
Operational Discipline
Personnel
Accidents and Failures
Accident Investigation
Training
Human Factors
Slips Trips Falls
Personnel Safety
Personal Protective Equipment PPE
TSCA
OHSA Matters
What makes a Great Expert Witness
Cogent has the requisite experience to investigate and understand key points in any given matter to provide excellent expert witness services. Cogent will clearly communicate our findings while working with clients or counsel to best understand presentation of the subject matter. Hence our name:
“co·gent (ˈkōjənt) – clear, logical, and convincing”
Michael A. Pollock P.E. – Managing Partner, Stacey S. Pollock Esquire, Counsel
Philadelphia Expert Witness and Forensics Services
Construction Expert and Project Management Services
Project management and construction efforts are complex in nature. The use of standards, standards of care and risk management are essential to limit one’s risk and loss in this landscape. Experts at Cogent are just that…experts that know project management from start to finish…
Engineering Expert Standard of Care
Engineering and architecture are some of the most complex arenas where expertise takes time and resource to build. Our engineering experts have decades of experience and can forensically research your engineered project, process or product to determine if the matter followed the engineering standard of care.
Facility Expert and Operations Expert Witness
It is imperative that a given facility or operation follow the requisite procedures and rules to operate safely and reliably. Proper personnel, training, management and maintenance are some of areas that are most important when it comes to reducing risk and loss at a given facility. This is another area where Cogent experts have extensive experience to assist in your legal claim or related matter.
Cogent Experts LLC, is a full-service expert witness, forensics engineering firm headquartered in the greater Philadelphia and Main Line areas.
Engineering Forensics and Expert Witness Services
Expert Witness & Forensics
The skills needed to be a strong expert witness and forensics engineer include great technical aptitude, coupled with good writing and communication skills to clearly communicate findings with the client, legal counsel, a mediator, an arbitrator, and potentially a judge and jury of his or her peers. It is this mix of skillsets that sets Cogent apart from other experts as Cogent experts have had a mix of training, education, industry experience, and legal venues. Whether an expert opinion, expert report, visual inspection and verbal opinion, or testimony are needed, Cogent will deliver.
Standard of Care
Engineering or Architectural Standard of Care is the combined effect of many items in most cases. The review of design documents, including bid documents, bid drawings, as built drawings, relevant engineering and architectural standards, communications between the designer/owner/architect, building information management (BIM) software and BIM files, change orders, proposed change orders, contract documents, engineering calculations etc., are all part of understanding whether or not the standard of care was met. This takes time and expertise.
Project and Facility Management
With over 25 years of experience in a broad mix of industries and business segments, Cogent Experts know the standard of care for project and facility management. Matters relating to personnel, training, standard operating procedures, personnel management, safety standards (such as OSHA) procedures, maintenance, preventative maintenance, environmental requirements are all categories known to our experts. Let our experts leverage our knowledge to find the answer to your problem.
Cogent works on both domestic and international legal claims relevant to construction delay cases and engineering / architecture standard of care cases.
Our goal is to provide clear and concise solutions for our clients.
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Know your bid and construction documents and contracts. Period.
Bid and construction documents are complicated in nature. In many cases, elements of these documents are not fully understood until after issues arise or a construction delay develops. It is essential to limit construction risk to know and understand these documents BEFORE problems begin.
Engineering Standard of Care…
In many construction projects, an architect and an owner enter into a contract regarding the design, construction and construction management of a complex, facility or residential property. It is important to know that as sometimes things can go wrong, and do – a failed design, an injury of another, a late performance of contract terms…Read More..
Cogent Experts, LLC now offering Patent Expert Witness & Intellectual Property Expert Services
Cogent Experts is now offering intellectual property expertise relating as patent, trade secret, trademark and copyright issues. This results from our experts having significant experience in these matters as well as the ever combined worlds of engineering, technology and intellectual property.
Expert Witness and Forensics Industry Experience:
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