Forensic Construction Consultant
Mr. Boyken serves as a forensic construction consultant providing expert witness testimony, cost analysis, construction claims analysis and document review for construction dispute resolution involving...
View ArticleExpert Witness: The Secret To Avoiding The Courtroom
Learning from other’s mistakes is often a valuable experience; as an Expert Witness we utilize this knowledge to guide our clients. Retaining a Project Management Consultant for a development program...
View ArticleExpert Witnesses Must Communicate Clearly
Expert Witnesses must be able to communicate clearly. Experts are retained to make the difficult simple. Communicating their findings in a clear and straight forward manner is important. The secret...
View ArticleThere is Always a Solution
Approaching 50 years in the construction business, I have found that everything has been and will continue to be about people’s attitude. My observation is that there are two types of people –...
View ArticleTen Warning Signs A Project Is In Trouble and What To Do About It
Construction Industry has been extremely active stretching the resources of the contractor and designer’s staffs. One common cause of project disputes is that the industry attempts to put a “B” team...
View ArticleSuccess Doesn’t Just Happen…it requires a plan.
I have worked with some great developers creating iconic destinations, gaming resorts, plus massive complicated structures, such as airports, biocontainment labs, and hospitals just to name a few....
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Built to Last – Secrets for Building a Lasting Consulting Business
The Windy City isn’t among the easiest places to manage a major construction project, what with its oftentimes confusing politics and—more recently—the perfect storm of COVID-19 and mass protests that...
View ArticleBuilding During a Pandemic
The construction estimator’s role is to quantify the project work and assess the cost. Often this task includes a projection of the future anticipated cost. To accurately project future costs, I have...
View ArticleINFLATION PRESSURES
In Georgia, many things are returning to normal. For example, weekend traffic on the roads is back and close to the congested experience prior to the pandemic. Comments about workday traffic include...
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Inflation Drivers and How They Affect Your Project
My estimating background has trained me to look for indicators that will predict the future cost for the design and construction of a construction project. Over the 50 plus years in the construction...
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