Your firm maintains an active architectural practice alongside expert witness services. How does this dual focus enhance your ability to analyze disputes? Remaining active in building design projects provides the opportunity to directly observe “the games people play.” We see how some industry participants take shortcuts and push regulation boundaries to their personal advantage often resulting in disputes. These experiences provide substantial insight when analyzing litigation causes. Our building design and expert witness work informs the other and provides better value to both client types. Our legal counsel clients frequently identify our active design involvement and past design experience as an important factor when retaining our expert witness services. Expert witness work enhances our design business and has led to more building remediation projects intended to correct the flaws of previous projects. It has been extremely satisfying assisting our design clients solve their most challenging facility problems and the involvement in repair, repurposing and reuse work aligns well with our firm’s sustainability goals.
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