Construction Accident Reconstruction Expert Witnesses

Carl Berkowitz, PE, Ph.D., AICP, is a Transportation and Traffic Engineering expert with almost 50 years of expertise. He's held various managerial and administrative positions in the transportation industry, government, private, and academic sectors.

Dr. Berkowitz has extensive multi-modal experience in planning, design, engineering, safety, security, construction, maintenance, operations, and management. He has written and edited numerous reports, studies, articles, and columns for major publications, journals, newspapers and scholarly periodicals.

Background Experience:

• Transportation and Traffic Engineering Consultant, 1988 - Present
• New York City Department of Transportation, New York, 1970 – 88
• New York State Office of Planning Coordination, New York, 1967 - 70
• New York State Department of Transportation, Babylon, NY, 1963 - 67
• New York City Transit Authority, New York, 1962 - 63

Litigation Support - Dr. Berkowitz has served as a litigation consultant since 1997.  He has the background and experience to make him ideally suited to contribute important information at every stage in the litigation process. Dr. Berkowitz is able to explain complex issues in layman terms, suggest strategies, investigate and uncover facts, perform literature reviews, research, and prepare safety evaluations. He has been deposed / testified over 50 times in the last 5 years.

Accident Investigation & Reconstruction Slip Trip & Fall Pedestrian & Bicycle Safety Railroad Safety Bus & Truck Safety Biomechanics & Human Factors Student Safety FELA & OSHA Accessibility / ADA Parking Lots & Garages

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Dr. Adam K. Aleksander, PhD, PE, CSP, has over 40 years of experience in the areas of Mechanical Engineering, Human Factors, and Safety Engineering. He combines both academic credentials and active work in industry to provide a grounded perspective in Product Liability, Industrial Incidents, Warnings, and OSHA related issues. He is also a VP of an Energy Services firm, with over 35 overseas assignments related to forensic services, power utility issues, and equipment failures.

Dr. Aleksander has been a practicing engineer since 1972, focusing his Manufacturing, Consulting and Forensic investigations on Problem Definition and Root Cause Analysis of complex problems in confidential issues. His firm has experience encompassing an enormous variety of claims, from large $45 million dollar dam claims, to environmental clean-up claims, to small road construction claims. His litigation services often involve reconstruction, perception reaction studies, warnings, equipment operation, mechanical failures, industrial accidents, skiing, and bicycling injuries.

As an Expert Witness, Dr. Aleksander has worked with many clients, including plaintiff's and defendant's attorneys, both civil and criminal, attorneys representing corporations, corporations in the power utility area, and corporations that produce products. His services are also available to insurance executives with complex claims issues that involve industrial or utility related losses. Dr. Aleksander has been retained over 125 times in a wide range of technical investigations.

Litigation Expertise:

• Product Liability - Design, Manufacturing and Marketing Defects, Involving Damage, Injury or Fatality
• Equipment Failures - Proximal Cause of Failure with Contributing Factors
• Human Factors, Visibility, Ergonomics, and General Research Issues - Product Usability, Warnings, Instructions, Perception, Reaction Time, Visibility and Conspicuity Issues
• Construction, OSHA, and Safety Engineering - Regulatory and Safety Issues
• Industrial Projects
• Power Utility - Service and Equipment Failures

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Grow Your Practice with Experienced and Trusted Structural Forensic Engineers and Testifying Construction-Defect and Design-Defect Experts.

Top 7 Ways Our Engineering Experts Benefit You.

• Avoid Technical Blindsides.
• Reduce Exposure Risk.
• Control Litigation Costs.
• Pin Point Defect Causes.
• Nail Down Accurate Repair Scope.
  • Clear, Easy-to-Understand Presentations
  • Vibrant Jury-Focused Visualizations
  • Impress Your Boss (Bonus)

Grow Your Practice with Preeminent Solutions Construction-Defect and Design-Defect Experts.

Litigation can be stressful enough without knowing where you stand.

At Preeminent Solutions, our structural engineers use clear, visual and audio presentations to break down complex structural failures, determine cost, and bound repairs.

Our firm was founded by Ms. Vanessa Malone, P.E., a licensed professional civil / structural engineer with almost 20 years’ experience in civil/structural design, forensics, and expert work.

Ms. Malone has worked with a myriad of firms including NASA, Thornton Tomasetti, Westinghouse, Bechtel, General Electric, NIST, and NOAA. She has specialized in industrial structures, nuclear structures, earthquake analysis, wind load analysis, and finite element analysis (FEA), in addition to other specialties. She is licensed in multiple states including Florida, California, Texas, Washington D.C., Virginia, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Tennessee. She is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.

Here at Preeminent Solutions we specialize in the analysis and design  and investigation of commercial, defense, aerospace, industrial, and structures. We also specialize in residential structures.

Preeminent Solutions, Inc.
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Phone: (407) 901-0133
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Areas of Expertise

I. Construction-Defect and Design-Defects

Structural Peer Review
Standard of Care Analysis
Standard of Cause
Origin and Cause

II. Building Performance / Code Violations

Forensic Investigations
Building Code Review
Construction Safety Review

III. Industrial Structural Failures

Structural Collapse
Tower Collapse
Structural Steel & Building Failure Studies

IV. Disaster Related Property Damage

Hurricane Damage
Tornado Damage
Wild Fire Damage
Flood Damage
Earthquake Damage
Hail Damage

V. Material Defects

Concrete Defects
Steel Section Loss

View Vanessa Malone's Consultant Profile.

Construction Accidents - OSHA Compliance - Labor Law 200 - CPM Scheduling - Delay Claims - Risk Analysis

Fred Mohrmann is an on-site construction expert with 40+ years experience - beginning as an electrical contractor, educated as a mechanical engineer, certified as a Construction Manager and OSHA 30, combined with experience as an Adjunct Professor, I can break down very technical and complicated issues into clear, simple facts for juries. Since 2017, I have served as a Construction Safety expert witness and litigation consultant for law firms in New York, Boston, and Chicago.