He has experience optimizing project development and design and construction administration processes, and minimizing the likelihood of delays, disruptions, scope growth, and disputes. He also has extensive dispute resolution experience performing claims analysis and providing expert testimony on matters including delay, disruption, acceleration, suspension of work, standard of care, differing conditions, constructive changes, late owner-furnished materials, over-inspection, interference, breach of contract, and business interruption.
Mr. Yeager’s experience includes master scheduling; conceptual estimating/budgeting; constructability/bidability review of solicitation and contract documents; earned value and schedule analysis; data collection and integration; progress, performance, and risk analysis; analysis of resources and labor productivity; quantification of damages; and expert testimony on construction projects worldwide. He has been qualified and testified as an expert in scheduling and delay analysis in state court and in numerous arbitrations and alternative dispute resolution proceedings, and has provided litigation consulting services on numerous projects. He has been published in Engineering News Record and quoted in “Building a Successful Construction Company,” spoken at Construction SuperConferences in the United States and Canada, and presented at numerous other conferences.
Mr. Yeager also provides extensive risk management training services. His experience includes providing programmatic PRM services to oil and gas owners in Canada, including assessment of existing project development, design, and construction administration standards, policies, and procedures, determination of omissions and weaknesses relative to an ideal platform, and development of risk management strategies and training to achieve cost and schedule reliability.
Mr. Yeager’s experience and ability to get to the core of and effectively communicate complex issues has allowed him to advise premier owners, contractors, and sureties in the United States, Canada, and the Middle East regarding their most important business challenges. Combining his practical construction experience and dispute resolution experience, he provides clients with a unique and valuable perspective. He has worked on projects ranging from $5 million to over $3 billion. His experience includes oil/gas, liquefied natural gas, hospitals, airports, schools, commercial office buildings/developments, residential developments, hotels, wind power, water/wastewater, and bridges and highways.