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Construction Claims Experts Long International
Richard J. Long, P.E., P.Eng.
Founder
Corporate Headquarters:
5265 Skytrail Drive
Littleton CO
80123-1566
USA
phone: (303) 972-2443
fax: (303) 200-7180

Florida Office:
Andrew Avalon, PE, PSP
Chairman & CEO
8633 Willow Kane Court
Orlando, FL 32835
aavalon@long-intl.com
T: (407) 445-0825 F: (407) 650-3399
Long International provides expert engineering and construction claims analysis, expert testimony, project management consulting, and insurance claims analysis services. We focus on projects in the following industries: building and construction; gas, gasification, GTL, LNG, and NGL; industrial and manufacturing; mineral and mineral processing; offshore oil and gas; oil sands; pipelines and utilities; power; refineries, petrochemical, and chemical; transportation; and water, wastewater, dams, and marine. We analyze claims, not limited to, disputed change orders, schedule delay, acceleration, time extensions, liquidated damages, loss of productivity, defective specifications, and deficient project management performance.
Richard J. Long, P.E., P.Eng., Founder of Long International, has over 50 years of U.S. and international consulting experience involving construction contract disputes analysis and resolution, arbitration/litigation support and expert testimony, project management, engineering/construction management, cost and schedule control, and process engineering. As an internationally recognized expert in the analysis and resolution of complex construction disputes for over 35 years, Mr. Long has served as the lead expert on over 300 projects having claims ranging in size from US$100,000 to over US$2 billion. He has presented and published numerous articles on claims analysis, entitlement issues, CPM schedule and damages analyses, cumulative impact claims, and claims prevention.
Rod C. Carter, CCP, PSP is President of Long International and has over 20 years of experience in construction project controls, contract disputes and resolution, negotiations, mediation, arbitration support, and expert testimony on scheduling, loss of productivity, and quantum issues. He has experience in entitlement, schedule, and damages analyses on over 30 construction disputes ranging in value from US$100,000 to US$7 billion, related to oil and gas, oil refinery, LNG, heavy civil, nuclear, environmental, chemical, power, industrial, commercial, and residential construction projects. Mr. Carter specializes in loss of productivity, cumulative impact, and quantum calculations, and had a lead role in assessing damages on more than a dozen major disputes. In addition, Mr. Carter has developed cost and schedule risk analysis models using Monte Carlo simulations to address the uncertainty of estimates and claims.
Scott M. Francis, P.E., PSP is a Vice President of Long International and has over 20 years of experience in project management, contract disputes analysis and resolution, CPM schedule preparation, execution, and analysis, productivity analysis, contract administration, design engineering, construction management, and government contracting. He provides schedule development and assurance services, cost estimating, and claims analysis services on projects for both owners and contractors. Specific responsibilities include CPM development and reviews, CPM schedule delay and acceleration analyses, change order impact analysis, issue identification, correlation of impacts to schedule activities, and productivity evaluations.
Global Supply Chain Expert Witness Brett Beavers
Brett Beavers
Principal, Owner, Senior Finance Manager
Renton WA
98055
USA
phone: 425-306-5683

Logistics Ocean LLC provides logistics expertise that includes demand planning, bid strategy, bid optimization, mode optimization, and bid administration. You set the strategy and they handle the integration. Logistics Ocean optimization tools provide flexibility for provider selection by freight type, geography, and user customizable. Logistics Ocean can establish a full contract management process and can be integrated with your existing transportation software.
Logistics Ocean provides expertise in Logistics Economics and Pricing. They can help establish your platform for freight audit and payment processing and provide financial expertise to help plan and protect through smart procurement, budgeting, and consolidated reporting. Whether it is establishing a new financial system or expanding the supply chain, they can provide the technology and experience you need to be successful.
Brett Beavers, Principal / Owner, has 30 years of experience in the Transportation Industry negotiating contracts for 3rd (3PL) and 4th party logistics (4PL) contracts, transportation brokerage, independent contractors, agencies, and dedicated contract logistics.
His experience includes working with Amazon.com to reinvent the transportation payables process and create of one of the worlds largest logistics costing systems. Mr. Beavers also served as a Director of Transportation with J. B. Hunt Transport bringing a unique perspective as both buyer and seller to help companies improve their supply chain efficiency. He has advised on multiple acquisitions and divestitures across numerous industries and managed hundreds of contract negotiations as a shipper, broker, and carrier.
Litigation Support - Mr. Beavers has served as an expert witness for the logistics industry for a variety of topics in logistics economics and contract compliance. His experience has included small parcel, final mile, less than truckload (LTL), truckload (TL), intermodal, air, ocean, or warehousing economics. Mr. Beavers' services include independent research, industry best practices, and independent forensic review.
Ideal clients are attorneys and financial managers requiring insights into the economics of transportation as well as supply chain managers and fleet owners that are seeking to improve their operations.
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