Design & Construction Consulting

How do you effectively assess construction projects for risks and potential challenges?

Exponent's multidisciplinary teams offer powerful data and analysis, enabling you to make better, more cost-effective decisions for design and construction projects. Our experience in construction management, project scheduling, and cost analysis provides unique insight to identifying project risks. We help you mitigate risks by assessing potential failure sources or causes of damage.

Exponent's design and construction consultants provide data-driven insights for independent technical reviews, differing site conditions (DSC) claim assessments, construction challenges, earthwork and grading claims analysis, and schedule delay and damage claims assessment.

We use advanced scheduling techniques and probabilistic risk assessments to identify, quantify, and mitigate project risks at any phase of a construction project. Our expertise in construction management, defect analysis, and claims avoidance enables our clients to deliver projects on time and within budget and when claims and controversies arise, we provide support through all phases of a claim/dispute.

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Our design and construction consulting services can help you address design and construction challenges in your projects with clarity and confidence from pre- through post-construction.

Construction activities, machinery operation, and large blasts produce ground vibrations that can cause damage to nearby structures, either directly from wave propagation or indirectly through soil densification. Exponent investigates and assesses the effects of construction vibration on nearby structures, evaluates potential mitigation measures, and when damage has occurred from vibrations, provides conceptual recommendations for small- and large-scale projects.
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In construction projects, Differing Site Conditions (DSC) are physical conditions encountered during the construction of a contract of work that were not known to exist at the time of bidding. DSC makes up one of the single biggest causes of disputes and can lead to schedule delays, cost increases, and dangerous working conditions, as well as invalidating design assumptions. Exponent provides objective analysis regarding all aspects of DSC claims with our multidisciplinary team of engineers, geologists, construction management professionals, schedulers, and estimators.
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With expertise in over 90 disciplines and hundreds of capabilities, tools, and methodologies — we get to the root of even the most complex challenges and give you the objective answers you need.

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