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New Civil Staff

Mr. Dennis L. Allen has recently joined Exponent's Civil/Structural Engineering practice as a Senior Manager specializing in Construction Consulting. He has spent almost 30 years working with contractors, owners, and developers in preparing overall project planning, implementing procurement policies, preparing and monitoring project cost controls, investigating fraud cases, working with internal and external audit entities and consultants, preparing and reviewing cost submissions by contractors, performing close-out audits, and investigating and testifying in construction litigation.

Before working as a consultant, Mr. Allen gathered expertise with hands-on experience working for a contractor, a large project investor, and two real estate developers. These experiences provided a unique set of qualifications as he initiated field operational audits and pre-construction change order agreements, enhanced contract changes clauses, centralized project cost reporting, and multi-party project status review programs; established automated project costing and payment processes, monthly project oversight functions and reporting, and dispute risk management analyses; and performed multi-part home office overhead analyses, field office delay analyses, insurance cost analyses, and multi-part cost overrun analyses. As a litigation consultant, Mr. Allen has served as expert witness on some of the largest construction claims in the country, analyzing and explaining issues such as labor costs and inefficiencies, equipment costs, acceleration costs, cumulative costs of changes, and delay costs.

New Health/Epidemiology Staff

Kristie Ebi, Ph.D., M.P.H., recently joined Exponent’s Health Practice as a Senior Managing Scientist. Dr. Ebi is an epidemiologist who designs, conducts, and interprets scientific investigations on a variety of issues. She has extensive experience in research on how weather and climate can affect individuals, communities, and companies, and on the design of measures to reduce negative impacts. She has worked on a range of issues related to the potential health impacts of global climate change, including impacts associated with vector-borne diseases, heat waves, extreme events (flooding), food-borne diseases, and air pollution. In addition, she conducts research on the potential health impacts of residential and occupational exposures to magnetic fields. Prior to joining Exponent, Dr. Ebi was a Technical Manager at the Electric Power Research Institute and worked at the WHO European Centre for Environment and Health in Rome, Italy.

Dr. Ebi’s upcoming publications include:

Kovats RS, Edwards SJ, Hajat S, Armstrong BG, Ebi KL, Menne B, and The Collaborating Group. The effect of temperature on food poisoning: a time series analysis of salmonellosis in 10 European countries. Epidemiology and Infection. (In press.)

Ebi KL, Smith J, Burton I, Hitz S. Adaptation to climate variability and change from a public health perspective. In: Integration of Public Health with Adaptation to Climate Change: Lessons Learned and New Directions. Ebi KL, Smith J, Burton I (eds.). (In press.)

Ebi KL, Mills D, Smith J. A case study of unintended consequences: arsenic in drinking water in Bangladesh. In: Integration of Public Health with Adaptation to Climate Change: Lessons Learned and New Directions. Ebi KL, Smith J, Burton I (eds.). (In press.)

Yohe G and Ebi KL. Approaching adaptation: parallels and contrasts between the climate and health communities. In: Integration of Public Health with Adaptation to Climate Change: Lessons Learned and New Directions. Ebi KL, Smith J, Burton I (eds.). (In press.)

Teisberg TJ, Ebi KL, Kalkstein LS, Robinson L, Weiher RF. Heat watch/warning systems save lives: estimated costs and benefits for Philadelphia 1995-1998. (In press.)

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