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Geotechnical Expert Witness Consultants for NYC, Manhattan, The Boroughs, Nassau County, Suffolk County, Long Island, and New Jersey - Kagaoan Engineering

Geotechnical Expert Witness Consultants for NYC, Manhattan, The Boroughs, Nassau County, Suffolk County, Long Island, and New Jersey - Kagaoan Engineering

Geotechnical Expert Witness Consulting 

Expert witnesses have excellent credentials and meet certain expectations allowing them to testify on behalf of a business or person. In the United States, there are several requirements for a technical engineer to qualify as a geological expert witness.

For example, having a reputation as a leading Tri-State firm or a local leader in the industry is a desirable quality in a professional witness. He or she can go to court, provide reports, assist in civil and criminal cases, model data, and offer expert opinions. 

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When your construction firm goes in front of the judge, you want to know you have the best team of professionals to back up testimony and offer proof on your behalf. Kagaoan Engineering employs highly technical professionals in the engineering, design, inspection, and construction fields. Our state licensed and certified experts qualify to serve as a geotechnical expert witness in the NY, NJ, and CT region. Our decades of experience, previous court appearances, technical instruments, and a network of professional connections allow us to assist in forensic service matters. 

Requirements for a Geological Expert Witness

A great deal of preparation goes into getting ready for court or assisting investigators, attorneys, and police districts. Proving facts requires documentation with literary journals, educational books and magazines, articles from renowned experts, and conversations with other experts. These technical witnesses must also know how to correctly spell all the words for court reporters to provide accurate details. A working legal vocabulary helps the witness to accurately describe where the fault lies. 

Common Geotechnical Forensic Services
  • Forensic hydrological services
  • Acquiring data, generating reports, and defining scales
  • Catastrophic event recreation
  • Seismology reports
  • Two and three-dimensional modeling
  • Natural resource analysis
  • Groundwater mapping
  • Independent reports
  • Fluid dynamics analysis
  • Groundwater pollution charts and data analysis
  • Operator performance testimony
  • Fault assessments
  • Expert rebuttals
  • Structural analysis reports
  • Weight assessments for embankments, retaining walls, and foundations
  • Soil drainage data
  • Material displacement
  • Building code litigation
Fields a Geotechnical Expert Witness Covers

As a geological engineer or expert in a geotechnical field, these professionals understand the mechanics and forces behind large construction equipment like cranes, excavators, loaders, graters, and haulers. He or she can accurately describe how the vibrations from heavy equipment can loosen bolts and screws in machinery. These pulsations also affect the ground and subsurface layers of earth. Understanding the science behind the forces and how to explain this information in layman's terms is one reason attorneys contract these witnesses. 

Expert witnesses in these fields have a deep understanding of the physics behind the machinery and the soil. Knowing the way each type of subsurface material lets water pass through, how much water it takes to shift a weight load, and how to brace foundations are a few things our engineers can describe in detail and use models to show the information to investigators, judges, and forensic teams. It takes someone with years of experience and a vast knowledge of many intertwined fields to help people see the full scope of the issue. 

Many forensic investigations require a geotechnical expert witness to describe the cause of a situation. For example, a structural collapse may identify many problems, but a specific item or set of circumstances is the root cause of the failure. Getting through the mass of information to discover the exact cause is how geotechnical engineers assist in malpractice cases, civil litigation, and depositions. 

Another expectation of key corroborators is to give the court or investigative team an idea of the grade of the malfunction when dealing with soil issues. How deep a sinkhole goes, how far into a foundation a crack reaches, and how many feet below the surface a shift happens are things geotechnical witnesses can explain. These professionals can answer technical questions from experts on either side of the court case or from investigators. 

How often a problem happens is something the expert should understand and translate for the team when hired. This term is given the name rate of occurrence. How likely will the situation happen over the next year or decade is crucial to understanding the situation in question. Knowing the likelihood that the problem is on-time may factor into placing blame on a certain party. 

When a groundwater problem involves chemicals or toxins, specialized laboratory tests can determine the level of contamination and the exact source. Forensic geological engineers help health departments, local governments, and structural teams understand the problem. With the knowledge of a geology expert, the team can describe the problem in detail to come up with an acceptable solution or help the prosecuting team win the case. 

Besides technical accuracy and proving opinions, expert witnesses may experience answering the same question many ways. Witnesses can work for the defendant or plaintiff, so each will answer questions from opposing legal counsel. This side of the investigation might use questions or scenarios to try to trip up the expert or to devalue the opinion. Expert witnesses know to expect this line of questioning. They also know how to spot hypothetical situations and how to provide accurate answers.

Kagaoan Engineering employs expert engineering and geological professionals and help NY and NJ firms with litigation support, data modeling, and expert testimony. Our extensive knowledge and education let us offer a wealth of resources proving the data and helping identify causes. Serving our community allows us to help maintain high standards for the construction and engineering industry. Our participation in expert testimonies and investigations lets us translate technical information and help others understand complex geotechnical situations. 

About Kagaoan Engineering

Many corporations, owners, developers, architects, and construction managers are looking for a turnkey solution for all aspects of their construction projects. We at Kagaoan Engineering realize this trend, and we work closely with our clients to listen and identify their program requirements. We offer innovative solutions, performing engineering design at the highest levels while maintaining constructability and cost efficiency in mind. We are committed to our promise and modeled our business philosophy around it.
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