THE HOLLOWAY CONSULTING GROUP, LLC IS A CONSTRUCTION EXPERT WITNESS SERVICES FIRM IN DENVER, COLORADO
Our Staff of Construction Experts has worked on 1000+ construction projects and cases providing Construction Expert Witness Services in practice areas such as:
Construction Damages and Liability
Construction Expert Witness Services
Construction Claims Analysis
Construction Schedule Delay Analysis
Productivity Analysis
GC/CM/Contractor Standard of Care
Construction Defects
Non-Retained Expert Services
Construction Advisory Services
Construction Management Services
ABOUT
Holloway Consulting was founded in 1997 by Steve Holloway, who leads our Construction Expert Witness Services practice. Steve is a licensed California General Contractor, and Construction Expert Witness and Consultant with 40+ years of industry experience. He has been accepted as an expert and testified (on 40+ occasions) in technical areas of construction expertise such as:
- Construction Contracting (EPC, Turnkey, Cost Plus Fee, GMP, Fixed Price, Lump Sum and Unit Price).
- Damages Claims Preparation and Rebuttal; on behalf of Claimants and Defendants.
- Construction cost variance analysis; liability and apportionment.
- GC, CM, General and Trade Contractor Custom and Practice, and Standard of Care.
- Construction Insurance and Risk Analysis.
- Construction Productivity and Damages Analysis.
- Manufactured Power and Process Equipment Contracting.
- Project Controls (cost engineering, estimating and scheduling.
- Retrospective Schedule Analysis (delay, acceleration, liquidated damages, etc.).
- Construction Defects and Costs of Repairs.
Construction Damages and Liability Expert Witness Services
Damages and Liability analysis is the core of our Construction Expert Witness Services practice. We are most often retained by an Owner, A/E, GC, or trade contractor as the construction damages and liability expert. A formal dispute may or may not exist at the time we are retained. The Damages and Liability work we perform and the nature of the opinions we provide depend on various factors such as the key factual and legal issues, nature of the project and dispute, whether our Client is a Claimant and/or Defendant, etc. We submit an Expert Report and at least one Rebuttal or Supplemental expert report in almost every case. The dollar amounts of the construction damages claims we have prepared and rebutted vary from a low of several hundred thousand dollars to $5 Billion, and there has never been a Daubert-type motion submitted against one of our experts.
Construction Claims Expert Witness Services
We have collectively prepared and analyzed 1000+ construction claims over the past 40+ years. Our Clients have included Claimants and Defendants in Arbitration and Litigation and all parties involved along a construction project continuum.
Construction Scheduling Expert Witness Services
Steve Holloway began performing construction schedule delay analysis in 1974 while working at Fluor Corporation as a Project Engineer. Mr. Holloway has been a nationally recognized construction schedule delay expert for over 25+ years and construction schedule delay expert witness services remain one of Holloway Consulting’s core practice areas today.
We have issued 200+ expert reports (initial, rebuttal and supplemental) involving construction schedule delay and time-related damages and have testified on numerous occasions in deposition and at trial on schedule delay. We have also lectured and spoken before the AGC, ABC, CLE, Colorado Defense Lawyers Association, Colorado Bar Association, Denver Bar Association, Construction Superconference and other industry groups on Construction Schedule Delay topics.
Construction Productivity Expert Witness Services
Holloway Consulting's experience as a construction productivity expert began in 1974 as part of EPC Project Management Teams and has continued since 1990 as a construction productivity expert witness. We have lectured and testified on dozens of occasions on construction productivity topics and we stay abreast of the case law that provides guidance to Construction Productivity Experts.
Construction Standard of Care Expert Witness Services
Steve Holloway has served as the GC, CM, Contractor Standard of Care expert on several dozen cases. The GC, CM, Contractor Standard of Care applicable to these negligence claims is that standard of a licensed contractor under the subject circumstances; therefore, testimony is required by an expert such as Holloway as to the GC, CM, Contractor Standard of Care itself, as well as to a defendant’s compliance with it.
Construction Contract Change Analysis Services
Holloway Consulting’s Staff are experts in the analysis of Construction Contract Changes and their impact on schedule and cost. Approved and denied construction contract changes and their impact on project time and cost is the common thread that runs between most of the claims we have analyzed.
Construction Expert Witness Services
We are most often retained as the Testifying expert, who prepares reports submitted to the fact finder and testifies before the fact finder. However, we are also sometimes retained as the consulting or Non-Testifying expert witness, who primarily engages in research and support for the Client's legal team. The same Holloway expert often works in these two roles on the same case.
Our role as the Construction Expert Witness is, of course, to objectively articulate our opinions and their bases. However, our role is also ultimately to assist the trier of fact—whether it is the judge, jury, or arbitration body—in reaching a proper decision on the issues being faced. In other words, as the testifying expert, we are there to assist the fact finder by articulating our findings and opinions based on fact. We have a duty to the fact finder to expound our own opinions and their bases, essentially independent of influence from our Client.
As the Non-Testifying construction expert, our primary role is to serve as an adviser for our Client and it's legal team while engaging in research and analysis. We often opine on the strengths and weaknesses of both parties’ respective positions and probe alternative theories and damages analyses. We can be used as a resource to test different theories of the case, to research alternative ideas, to reject those that are least favorable and also to advise our Client's legal team on different lines of inquiry while still retaining confidentiality.
Founded in
1997