Engineered Resolutions for
Construction Disputes
Forensic engineering · Construction disputes
Forensic engineers with construction and commissioning experience, who find out what went wrong in the build and explain it clearly to counsel, arbitrators and the court.
Most disputes on data centre and critical-facility projects start in the electrical and mechanical work: systems that fail commissioning, defects found after handover, equipment that fails early and performance that falls short of the specification. With many trades, suppliers and owner-furnished equipment involved, the technical question of what went wrong, and where it traces to, decides how the dispute is resolved.
Mission Critical Forensics brings forensic investigation together with construction and commissioning experience in critical facilities. We work from the physical evidence, the design and construction documents and the commissioning and test records, and give the parties, their counsel and the tribunal findings they can rely on. Responsibility, liability and the value of a claim are for them to decide; our part is the engineering.
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The right specialists
Electrical, mechanical and mission-critical systems
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Construction experience
Design, construction and commissioning of critical facilities
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Engaged early
Evidence preserved before it is lost
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Clear
Technical issues explained plainly
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Ready for proceedings
Reports, testimony and review of opposing reports
Complex builds deserve clear technical answers
The challenge
Construction disputes in critical facilities turn on technical questions: what was specified, what was built, how it was tested and why it failed.
Contractors, trades, suppliers and owner-furnished equipment meet at the interfaces where failures happen. Tracing the failure to its technical source cuts through competing accounts.
A failure can trace to the design, the installation, the equipment or the way the system was operated. Separating them is an engineering question before it is a legal one.
Defective work is often removed or repaired to keep a project moving. Documenting and preserving it first protects the findings.
Commissioning and acceptance records show what was tested, when and against which criteria. Reading them correctly takes commissioning experience.
Every party has its own expert, and arbitrators, mediators and judges are not engineers. Findings have to rest on evidence, be explained plainly and hold under cross-examination.
Capability
All complex loss investigations are led by our group of experienced forensic experts, under our Principal Engineer.
Mission Critical Forensics brings forensic engineering together with construction and commissioning experience in critical facilities.
Design, construction and commissioning of data centres and critical facilities.
Test and acceptance records read the way they were meant to be read.
Electrical, mechanical and mission-critical systems, where most construction disputes start.
Findings that rest on the physical evidence and the record.
Reports written for technical and non-technical readers alike.
Reports, testimony and preparation for cross-examination.
Questions
A forensic engineer establishes the technical cause of a defect, a failure or a performance shortfall and traces it to its source: the design, the installation, the equipment or the way the system was operated. The findings are documented and reported for the parties, counsel and the tribunal, who then decide responsibility and liability.
Yes. Most data centre disputes start in the electrical and mechanical work and its commissioning. We investigate failed tests, defects, early equipment failures and losses during construction in data centres and other critical facilities.
Yes. We review commissioning, acceptance and test records against the specification to establish what was tested, how it was tested and what the results show.
Yes. We investigate fires, electrical faults, leaks and equipment failures during construction and establish their technical cause.
When a failure or a defect is said to have caused the delay, yes: we establish its technical cause. The delay analysis itself is for scheduling specialists.
Before defective work is removed, replaced or repaired. Early retention protects the evidence.
Yes. We review opposing expert reports for technical soundness and explain the technical issues so counsel can prepare for cross-examination.
From the Forensic Engineer’s Desk
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