SERVICES
Delta is an international consulting firm of experienced professionals with technical expertise in engineering, accounting, construction, program management and litigation support. Clients and their legal counsel turn to Delta for insightful and practical advice regarding ways to resolve disputes, enhance operations, improve and forecast performance, and find creative solutions to their most sensitive business challenges. Whether it is project management advice on a new power plant, delay and damage claims on the renovation of a courthouse, or providing expert witness advice and testimony on a failed surety project, our professionals meet the needs of our clients in a timely and cost-effective manner.
Damages (Quantum) Analysis
Critical decision making, particularly in high-stakes claims cases, should be based on accurate and thorough information at every phase of a project. Delta Consulting Group’s professionals possess a wealth of technical and analytical expertise and years of experience working on national and international projects. Because we are accustomed to the multitude of challenges on these projects, our experts know where and how to quickly and cost-effectively uncover the facts and quantify the damages.
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We investigate, evaluate, and calculate delays and damages for our clients at any stage of a dispute. Our team provides our clients with a detailed comprehensive analysis as well as an audit of the damages, which typically are a result of construction delays, scheduling issues, problematic site conditions, and change orders.
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Expert Witness Testimony
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Commercial Damages
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Forensic Accounting
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Construction Claims
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Loss of Productivity
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Defects / Forensic Engineering
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Securities and Class Action
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Assessment of Damages
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Evaluation of Change Orders
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Investigative Audits
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Estimating
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Cost to Complete Analysis
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Suspension and Termination Assessment
Schedule & Delay Analysis
Often the most significant unanticipated costs on a construction project are the financial impacts associated with delays. Determining causation and understanding the damages due to delay and disruption can be complex, time consuming and can achieve mixed results. Delta’s forensic scheduling experts and accountants are experienced with the variety of industry accepted delay analysis methodologies and provide the independent analysis necessary to effectively evaluate the cause of the delay, as well as the true financial impact to the project.
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Such analysis can, and often times does, involve in depth analysis of changes in the work, differing site conditions, force majeure events, subcontractor performance, procurement issues, owner interference, labor productivity, and acceleration.
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In addition, our scheduling teams work with our forensic accounting and forensic engineering experts to determine the financial impact of the delay. This work includes determination of extended general conditions, extended field costs, home office overhead, incentive/disincentive amounts and liquidated damages.
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Expert Witness Testimony
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Recovery Plans
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As-Planned vs. As-Built
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and Delay Overview
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As-Built Critical Path Identification
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Detailed Causation Analysis
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Delay Apportionment to
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Responsible Parties
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Acceleration (Directed/Constructive)
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Productivity Analysis
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Time Impact Analysis
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Concurrency/Pacing Analysis
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Extended Field Office Overhead
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Unabsorbed Home Office Overhead
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Liquidated Damages
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Direct Damages
Dispute Resolution
Delta’s International team provides a variety of arbitration and adjudication services throughout the world. Our clients include large multinational public and private companies, sovereign nations, investment funds, individuals, among others.
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International arbitration is a complex legal process that allows companies or individuals in different countries to resolve their disputes in a binding legal manner. Our experts have been retained in numerous international arbitrations and disputes; providing quantum analysis, delay analysis, loss of productivity, and expert witness testimony services on heavy civil, energy, industrial, transportation, buildings, and real estate matters. Our testifiers have worked on assignments before forums including the ICC, UNCITRAL, AAA-ICDR, ICSID, and LCIA.
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Adjudication is a process to resolve construction contracts that fall within the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom (UK). Delta’s adjudication experts provide our UK construction clients with a full range of services, whether referring or defending.
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Quantum Analysis
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Delay Analysis
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Productivity Analysis
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Adjudication
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Delay Analysis
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Expert Witness Testimony
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Forensic Accounting
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Lost Profits Valuation
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Due Diligence
Loss of Productivity
Loss of Productivity can be one of the most challenging damages to credibly establish in a construction claims matter. Its foundation relies on the assertion that the work could have been performed at a better level of production, absent the claimed impacts and/or delays.
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Delta’s cross-disciplinary team has a broad spectrum of experience establishing cause and effect relationships and proving damages based on these concepts for both owners and contractors. Our independent and objective approach has been successful in preparing Loss of Productivity claims, as well as defending against them. Our experts work with clients and their attorneys to quantify and calculate the damages, allowing them to confidently make critical decisions to prevent or mitigate losses.
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Through our unique combination of engineering, accounting, and scheduling experts, along with their experience working on countless cases involving these concepts on a wide variety of projects, Delta is positioned to provide its clients with the most reliable analyses and conclusions available. This allows our clients to navigate the dispute resolution environment with sound information and dependable conclusions. In the event that a negotiated resolution is unattainable, our testifying experts have extensive experience representing clients in arbitrations, trials, and in other international venues on the complex issues involved in disruption and inefficiency claims.
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Delta’s team of loss of productivity experts have written numerous articles, including peer reviewed articles, and many were selected to be in the Who’s Who Legal publications.
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Measured Mile Analysis
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Earned Value Analysis
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Comparable Task and Project Analysis
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Industry Studies and Project Specific Study Analysis
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Project Cost Analysis
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Bid Estimate Review and Validation
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Industry Estimating Guide Productivity Comparisons
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Project Cost Systems Auditing and Source Validation
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Productivity and Delay Cost Analysis
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Project Impact Studies and Forecasts
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Bid and Estimate Formulation using project specific or industry data
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Expert Witness Testimony
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Modified Total Cost Method
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Preliminary Claim Feasibility Studies
Project Advisory
Well-managed projects require careful planning, flexibility and making the right choices at many critical points along the way. From the initial feasibility studies and cost estimates, through schedule monitoring and financial reporting, our team of engineers, forensic accountants, and construction specialists have the experience and the expertise to help clients at any phase.
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Whether you are an owner, developer, contractor or work in a related field, our professionals have worked on hundreds of projects and can provide objective assessments of scheduling, cost analysis, quality issues, labor productivity, and performance evaluations. Our project advisory experts draw upon years of experience and our knowledge of the full life-cycle of a project allows us to work quickly and efficiently with our clients to prevent problems before they occur.
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However, after serious problems have caused delays or cost-overruns, Delta can quickly and efficiently assemble a cross-disciplinary team with a broad spectrum of experiences to safeguard our clients’ best interest.
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Scheduling and Planning
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Cost and Budgeting
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Real Estate Consulting
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Risk Management
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Construction Project Audit
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Project Controls
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Damage Assessments
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Contract Compliance Reviews
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As-Built Schedule Preparation
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Baseline Schedule Development
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Critical Path Schedule Delay Analysis
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Change Order Evaluations
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Cost to Complete Evaluations
Financial Advisory
Current, reliable and complete information is critical in making informed decisions in changing markets. Delta’s professionals understand that most transactional work is extremely dependent on two key factors: finding factual, comprehensive information and doing so in a timely manner. However, they also know that poor or non-complete information can have a huge impact on a company’s strategic decisions. Because we have seen all sides of business transactions, we know where to look and what to look for to keep our clients on track.
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Delta’s professionals are committed to investigating the key data and finding the facts; using only the most reliable data in their analysis and applying proven financial methods. When necessary, we conduct comprehensive analysis and research so that our clients have accurate data from which to base their business decisions. Our team has worked with business entities considering a merger or forming a new partnership, as well as owners and developers interested in a specific construction transaction like purchasing or building a new structure.
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Feasibility Studies
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Valuation Analysis
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Operations Evaluations
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Strategic Planning
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Acquisition and Disposition Analysis
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Market Analysis
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Fiscal Impact Analysis
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Economic Impact Analysis
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Insurable Values
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Forensic Accounting
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Financial and Contract Audits
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Compliance Reviews
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ICSID Cases