Nevada Construction Expert Witness

We have the experience and technical excellence to provide expert witness testimony for all matters concerning construction. When you need expert testimony, you need both knowledge and experience to support this testimony. At Gogulski & Associates Inc, we provide our expertise to provide testimony for construction accidents and construction investigations.

The Value of Experience

We have 30 years experience in commercial, residential, and industrial construction as well as 10 years expert witness testimony in more than 150 cases nationwide. Gogulski & Associates Inc is your source for a Nevada - Las Vegas, Reno - construction expert witness. This wide base of experience allows us to speak with authority on a wide range of matters in the construction field. 

Our satisfied customers can attest to the value of having such well supported testimony backing up their cases. We pair technical excellence with results. Still, this wide experience is not all we offer

The Personal Touch

Even with all of this experience and success, we continue to devote our complete undivided attention to each and every client. This careful attention to each matter that a client brings before us allows you to receive the maximum benefit of our experience as it applies to your unique situation. We know that your main concern is how our expertise can be brought to bear on your behalf. We focus our efforts to make sure that you are satisfied with our services.

Cases of All Sizes

We believe that cases of all sizes must be treated with the same care and deserve the same focused attention. Your case, no matter what the size, is important to you and it is just as important to us. Your satisfaction with our expert witness services is the most important thing whether you need a personal injury expert and a forensic construction expert or an OSHA expert witness and some other type of construction litigation expert witness. No matter what type of forensic construction expert witness or forensic engineering expert you need, we will provide the services that you need with the expertise that you expect from us.

Construction litigation services require knowledge, experience, and the ability to communicate effectively. Our ability to explain these complex matters simply both in and out of court makes us the ones you want representing you. Your issues may involve quality control, insurance claims, construction defects, code compliance, site safety, construction delays, construction accidents, design errors and omissions, failure to perform, OSHA violations, standards of care or many other issues. The bottom line is that we can provide all the expert testimony that you need.

Below are examples of our work:

(1) Hertz v. (unnamed) General Contractor, Las Vegas, NV

The general contractor charged with expanding Hertz's Rent a Car facility at Las Vegas by renovation of the Case Equipment portion within Hertz adjacent facility. This was a very tight schedule demanding close coordination within occupied space; Hertz purchased cabinets and fixtures which had to be coordinated with timely progress. The grand opening involved TV exposure with celebrity guests and executives from corporate.

The general contractor had great difficulty complying with Hertz standards. As the project progressed, it became obvious that the general contractor could not comply with Clark County code standards either. He failed to provided adequate personnel, failed to provide adequate supervision, failed to schedule within any reasonable standard of care, and failed to prosecute the job in a save manor.

As Hertz worked to limit the delays and extend the opening date, the performance of the general contract did not improve. Hertz terminated the general contractor after several attempts to implement improvement failed. 

Gogulski & Associates was hired to represent Hertz when the general contractor claimed wrongful termination. By analyzing the charges and back charges, reviewing every invoice and every claim, examining, labor, change orders, and all job costs from both Hertz and the general contractor, Gogulski established a credible record of costs which were used to settle the case. Daily reports were monitored and testimony from depositions corrected to include factual data. 

The attorney representing the general contractor felt strongly that his client would prevail. He addressed the mediation with "This is our bottom line number for settlement, we will take nothing less" Four plaintiff attorneys supported this position. Hertz attorney insisted that Gogulsk's report be read slowly so that each attorney understood the evidence presented, and had the opportunity to object. Four hours later, the case was settled favorable to Hertz. Every claim made in Gogulski's report was accepted.

(2) Pedrin v. Acme Supply, Las Vegas NV

Mr. Pedrin fell to his death when he stepped down from a wall form system onto a work platform (scaffold) at the 52 foot level at Market Square, Las Vegas. The work platform was approximately three feet below the bottom foothold (whaler) on the form work. As he hopped down that three-foot distance, the section of the platform upon which he stepped cracked and broke. That section of the platform was a 16 inch wide section of plywood. He fell through the platform, bounced off another platform at a lower level and struck the ground headfirst. 

Mr. Gogulski was hired to investigate and represent the plaintiff's interest in this case. The investigation showed that at the point of his impact on the working platform, the specialty scaffolding supporting the plywood was discontinuous at the point where the two cantilever sections terminated. In addition, the shop drawings were unsigned and unstamped by the engineer of record. No evidence was presented to show that the form system was inspected and approved in the field as stated in the purchase order.

Mr. Gogulski's report was used to settle the case favorably for the plaintiff. A trust fund was established for Mr. Pedrin's family.