Claims Experts
At ARCADIS, people are our most valuable resource.
We've assembled a team of industry leaders—construction claims specialists with decades of experience consulting clients on the best ways to avoid disputes and guiding them through the process of resolving complex claims. During the last five years alone, we've played a role in resolving more than $1 billion in large and small construction disputes. And even more important, approximately 95-percent of our dispute resolution assignments reach settlement without resorting to litigation or arbitration. Contact us today to learn how we can help you minimize the risk of disputes and litigation in your projects.
Joseph L. Seibold, P.E.
Mr. Seibold is Executive Vice President for ARCADIS' Construction Claims Practice. With more than 30 years of experience, he has served as a Construction Manager, Senior Claims Analyst and Expert Witness on a variety of public works projects such as ports; highways; rail and transit systems; buildings including correctional facilities, schools, and hospitals; as well as wastewater treatment facilities. He has provided expert testimony in all forums of dispute resolution on behalf of both owners and contractors, and has prepared and supervised the evaluation and calculation of construction-related delay and disruption damages on more than 100 projects. Mr. Seibold has participated in dispute resolution on behalf a variety of public sector owners, and his specific efforts have included providing assessments of potential exposure, recommending strategies to resolution and providing expert testimony.
Roy J. Cooper, P.E.
Mr. Cooper is Vice President for ARCADIS and leads the Construction Claims Services in the eastern United States. His 20 years of construction experience includes consulting to sureties dealing with troubled projects and the analysis and review of complex construction claims from the beginning stages through trial support and expert testimony. He has also been a successful project superintendent and engineer on high profile projects where he was responsible for all aspects of construction. In addition to his practical hands-on knowledge of construction principles and management and how they relate to distressed projects, Mr. Cooper has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Michigan Technological University and a MBA from the University of Connecticut.
William R. Broz, P.E., LEED AP
Mr. Broz is Associate Vice President for the Construction Claims Services Practice in California. He is a registered mechanical engineer and a LEED AP with over 30 years of design, construction and claims experience. He has been a principal in his own design firm and has provided expert services for a variety of project types including educational, commercial, correctional, industrial, and hospitality. His experience includes forensic investigations, expert testimony, deposition, and trial.
John C. Livengood, Esq., AIA
Mr. Livengood is Associate Vice President for ARCADIS. He is a registered architect with more than 34 years of experience in architectural design, project management, design analysis, and document preparation. He is also an attorney experienced in construction litigation, government contracts, claims analysis, international contracts and arbitration, and a variety of projects that include office buildings, sports stadiums, warehouses, educational institutions, hospitals, wastewater treatment plants, industrial facilities, correctional facilities, roadways, military bases, airfields and air terminals, rapid rail facilities, railroad stations, high-power lines, bridges, microwave communication facilities and powerplants, as well as small residential projects, garden apartment buildings, and high-rise apartment buildings. As an expert witness, Mr. Livengood has testified in court proceedings before boards of contract appeals and in arbitrations on scheduling issues, damages and causation issues.
Steven Davis, P.E.
Mr. Davis is Senior Claims Manager for ARCADIS and has 25 years of experience in the construction industry. He has represented owners and contractors on major construction projects in the capacity of project manager, project engineer, cost and scheduling engineer, and claims analysis. His particular area of expertise is contract administration and analysis of construction delay and productivity claims. He utilizes his engineering background and practical experience to provide convincing analysis, negotiations, and testimony on behalf of clients and has testified as an expert witness in the areas of schedule analysis, productivity analysis, and damages. The range of his experience includes analyses of claims on numerous project types including: healthcare facilities; buildings including hospitality, commercial/entertainment, and educational; highways and tunnels; ports; railways and transit; water supply and wastewater treatment facilities, as well as seismic and forensic services.
Peter B. Heroy, P.E.
Mr. Heroy is a Senior Consultant with ARCADIS. He has been a professional engineer in the construction industry for over 30 years. His experience covers a broad range of projects including rapid transit, highways, bridges, sewers, hospitals, high-rise buildings, wastewater treatment plants, power plants, prisons, commercial and industrial facilities. Mr. Heroy is responsible for researching, analyzing, and providing testimony on construction claims; primarily those involving delay and disruption. He has represented owners, contractors, design professionals, and sureties in settlement negotiations and dispute mediation, and when required, has provided expert testimony. Additionally, he provides oversight and management of professional staff on surety assignments. Mr. Heroy's experience covers more than 160 jobs ranging in value from $200,000 to $200 million.
Lee Schumacher, P.E., PSP
Mr. Schumacher is one of the leaders of ARCADIS' Construction Claims Services practice in the eastern United States. He has been involved in the resolution of construction disputes and default/termination situations throughout the United States and Canada for nearly 30 years. He has extensive experience in the use of CPM schedules to evaluate delays, the quantification of productivity losses resulting from delays and disruptions on construction projects and architect/engineer liability. Mr. Schumacher has participated in numerous structured negotiations and mediations and has testified in court and before arbitration panels. Mr. Schumacher serves on the American Arbitration Association and the Alternative Dispute Resolution Center panels of arbitrators. He is a certified Planning & Scheduling Professional by AACE International.
John S. Rannestad, P.E., LEED AP
Mr. Rannestad is a Senior Consultant for ARCADIS. He has extensive experience with the analysis of entitlement, CPM schedule analysis and calculating cost impacts. He has wide ranging experience in structured negotiations, mediation, arbitration and mediation and serves as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association and the American Dispute Resolution Center. Mr. Rannestad is experienced in managing all aspects of large-scale claims evaluation assignments, including the evaluation of schedule impacts, cost impact analysis, mediation, and claims negotiation. He has been involved with numerous transportation projects, including those involving the construction of roads, bridges, rail facilities, and airports as well as a variety of other project types including those related to the construction of schools, libraries, hospitals, and wastewater treatment plants. Mr. Rannestad has written about, lectured about and testified to CPM schedule analysis.
Jeffrey M. DeFeo, Esq.
Mr. DeFeo is a Regional Director of Claims Services for ARCADIS. He has 32 years of experience in the areas of construction claims analysis and resolution, CPM scheduling, program management, contract administration and training, Mr. DeFeo's expertise is extensive, covering a broad area of construction-related work. He is a recognized expert on dispute resolution and management aspects of projects and capital improvement programs. His extensive claims experience has included performing expert analysis of all claim aspects, including complex CPM schedule delays, disruption, liability, loss of productivity, and damages. He has provided expert testimony at mediations, dispute review boards, arbitrations, and trials.
Stephanie Turk, P.E.
Ms. Turk is a Senior Claims Analyst for ARCADIS. She has more than 20 years of experience in project and construction management. She is also experienced in providing claims review, damage analysis, and expert testimony. Her strengths include working for the California Department of Transportation establishing project management processes and procurement within the District. Ms. Turk graduated with a BS in Civil Engineering from Stanford University, and went on to obtain her MBA from UCLA. She is a registered engineer in California.
Mark Guevara, Esq., PMP, PSP
Mr. Guevara is a Senior Claims and Schedule Analyst for ARCADIS. He has over 20 years of experience in the engineering & construction industry as a civil engineer, construction law attorney and construction claims analyst. Prior to joining PinnacleOne, his experience included large-scale, public and private sector projects with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Fluor Corporation. Mr. Guevara has considerable knowledge in project management, contract administration, and the evaluation and resolution of all aspects of construction claims, including, CPM schedule delays and disruption, loss of productivity, entitlement, causation and cost/damage analysis on a variety of projects, including roads, highways, bridges, tunnels, dams, power plants, schools, hospitals, prisons, parking structures, commercial developments and residential housing. He has lectured on various construction-related topics and has appeared before dispute review boards and panels.
Brian Coyne, CCC
Mr. Coyne is a Senior Consultant for ARCADIS. As a Certified Cost Consultant with more than 28 years of experience in the area of project controls, his work experience includes commercial, educational, civil, healthcare, and detention projects. He has performed numerous schedule reviews, primarily of contractor-produced baseline schedules, schedule revisions, and schedule updates. Mr. Coyne has also prepared numerous CPM schedules for construction projects and has assisted in the writing of scheduling specifications for a number of projects. He has developed an expertise with a variety of delay analysis techniques, including windows analysis, as-planned vs. as-built, and collapsed as-built. This work has produced fluency with a variety of scheduling software tools, including Primavera P3, SureTrak, Microsoft Project, and Claim Digger. Mr. Coyne has spent much of his time at PinnacleOne assisting Caltrans with CPM scheduling, claims analysis and resolution, and training of Caltrans personnel.
Rick Cianfaglione, PSP
Mr. Cianfaglione is a Claims Analyst for ARCADIS' northeast region. He has a decade of extensive field experience as a superintendent on major projects ranging from $1 million to $300 million. He has worked on a wide variety of projects including schools, convention centers, highways, hotels, municipal buildings, and stadiums. Since joining PinnacleOne, Mr. Cianfaglione has combined his extensive field experience and scheduling skills to perform a variety of construction consulting services including the analysis of construction defects, evaluation of extra work and productivity claims, and the assessment of responsibility for project delays. Mr. Cianfaglione has a B.S. in Construction Management from Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts and is a Certified Planning & Scheduling Professional by AACE International.
Kevin Ouellette, P.E.
Mr. Ouellette is a Senior Consultant with ARCADIS. He brings more than 30 years experience in the construction industry. During his career he has directed teams of architects, engineers, and contractors in the development of cost-to-complete estimates, preparation of expert reports, construction supervision, and claim analysis. Mr. Ouellette has worked on such unique projects as the Washington Monument and the Capitol Building Dome in Washington, D.C. He is a Professional Engineer in Connecticut, and has been licensed as a contractor and certified as a safety professional.
Eric Schatz, LEED AP
Mr. Schatz is a Senior Claims Analyst with more than nine years experience in the construction industry. He has worked as a Construction Manager, Claims Analyst, and Surety Consultant on a variety of projects. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s in Engineering Management from Dartmouth College. His experience includes evaluation and preparation of claims regarding construction delays, disruption, change orders, deficient work, design liability and payment over certification, administration of contracts, condition assessments, cost estimating, CPM scheduling and forensic audits. Given the nature and volume of today’s project record keeping, Mr. Schatz’s proficiency in technology and electronic document management is an indispensable asset on large claims and litigations. Mr. Schatz is a LEED Accredited Professional and a Certified Fraud Examiner.