Construction Project Scheduling & Delay Claims

Kenneth J. O’Connell Ph.D., PE, PSP, CFCC, RPLS, Program Chair, is co- founder and president of O’Connell & Lawrence, Inc., a firm that specializes in providing civil engineering, construction consulting, project management, scheduling, claims analysis and preparation, surveying, construction inspection and constructability reviews. He has been the principal-in-charge of assignments for public agencies in addition to numerous assignments on behalf of owners, general contractors, and subcontractors. He has broad experience in the construction industry as a consultant, designer, project manager, and teacher.

Kathleen O. Barnes is a Senior Partner at Watt Tieder Hoffar & Fitzgerald LLP in Virginia. Her practice focuses on domestic and international construction contracting and federal government contracts.  She counsels and advises contractors, design engineering firms, construction managers and owners in all phases of industrial, power, civil, transportation and commercial construction in the United States and overseas.  For more than 30 years, Kathy has represented clients in claim preparation, negotiation and other informal ADR procedures, mediation, arbitration and litigation in both federal and state courts.  

William M. Kime is a Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting, Inc. He provides consulting services to a wide variety of clients, including litigation support and consulting services related to pricing of construction and government contract damages, analysis of accounting systems, and documentation and cost recovery in environmental cleanup cases. These services include assistance to contractors in contract closeouts, estimation and calculation of damages resulting from such actions as terminations, change in contract requirements or differing site conditions, and late exercise of contract options.

Stanley W. Martin, EIT, is Executive Vice President and General Counsel at O’Connell & Lawrence, Inc. He has over 25 years of combined experience, as a practicing civil engineer, as a practicing attorney, and as a construction consultant. He has an extensive construction and engineering background, serving as a senior project manager for numerous government facility, institutional, commercial, industrial, heavy civil, transportation, retail, and airport construction projects. He is well versed in day-to-day construction operations, from the design phase through project completion and post-completion.

Joshua D. Rice, CCM, PMP, PSP, is the Vice President of O’Connell & Lawrence, Inc. He has over 17 years of diverse construction and engineering experience on commercial, institutional, educational, industrial, highway and bridge, utility, marine, and heavy civil construction projects in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. His expertise includes project management, construction operations and logistics, planning and scheduling, project controls, contract administration, and litigation support services for projects delivered using the design-bid-build, EPCM, and design-build delivery methods.