Mr. Nelson has 5 years experience in the construction management field, and his advanced degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder has provided him with a strong background in project cost controls, project scheduling, risk analysis, and construction contracting. Since then, he has been involved in commercial building through his work for general contractors in the United States and New Zealand. His project management experience has ranged from permitting, procurement, quality and safety, subcontract development, scheduling, submittal and RFI reviews, and change order development/negotiation, to project closeout. His graduate research was in the field of green building and sustainability and he remains active in the field, specializing in LEED and green building considerations/impacts for building construction. As an Exponent consultant, he has experience with change order entitlement and valuation, damage analysis, schedule/delay analysis, and engineering audits.
Industrial
Utility Project Portfolio Support – Developed project schedule templates and resource loaded schedules for hundreds of transmission & distribution substation projects system-wide, aided the utilities project managers in creating and updating project schedules, reviewed and refined data gathered from utilities teams, identified and addressed data gaps. Objectives included improved management of engineering labor force, productivity improvements, and improved labor forecasting.
Wastewater Treatment Facility – Analyzed a general contractor delay claim on behalf of the design engineer on a $104 million wastewater treatment plant in Phoenix, Arizona. Exponent services included as-built schedule development, critical path schedule delay analysis, contractor cost overrun analysis, and procurement/buyout process investigation.
Natural Gas Utility – Performed a system-wide engineering audit of a Northern California natural gas distribution system. The audit scope included personnel interviews of all related maintenance and supervisory staff responsible for gas regulation and emergency valve maintenance, detailed review of statistically relevant records, administration of a skills assessment exam to all maintenance staff, and field visits to gas regulator stations and emergency valves.
Civil
Wastewater Conveyance Tunnel – Analysis of a $75MM differing site condition claim on a 13 mile tunnel boring machine (TBM) contract. Services included entitlement review, productivity/delay allocation analysis, evaluation of technical tunneling factors, document management, and project management assistance.
Light Rail Maintenance Facility – Defense of $12MM claim against design firm for deficient drawings & specifications. Services included change order & RFI causation analysis, settlement damage analysis, and contractual culpability examination.
Commercial
Performing Arts Center –Assisted in the defense of a $40M design errors & omissions claim against the design architect for cost overruns. Exponent services included change order entitlement & evaluation, contract analysis, schedule analysis, and damages analysis.
Urban Hotel – Performed schedule delay analysis in defense of claim against elevator subcontractor through the examination of project records, baseline schedules, and subsequent schedule updates. Prepared summary of findings, demonstrative slides, and graphics.