Mr. Adams is an architect, planner, and a life-certified value specialist (CVS) with more than 38 years experience in design, contract administration, constructability reviews, claims analysis and preparation, partnering facilitation, dispute avoidance and resolution, troubled project intervention, and construction management including 27 years of value analysis / value engineering. He is also a trained mediator, arbitrator, and partnering facilitator. Mr. Adams writes extensively in the areas of value analysis / value engineering, partnering, and Choosing By Advantages Decisionmaking (CBA) and has been published in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan.
Background
Q: Please list your professional accreditations, degrees, licenses, and certificates granted:A: Certified Value Specialist (Life)
National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Certificate
Registered Architect in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Texas
Professional Planner in New Jersey
Registered Interior Designer in Texas
Q: Please list your affiliations or memberships in any professional and/or industry organizations:
A: American Institute of Architects
SAVE International
Construction Specifications Institute
Q: Please list any teaching or speaking experience you have had, including subject matter:
A: See Curriculum Vitae for teaching and speaking experience.
Q: Have any of your accreditations ever been investigated, suspended or removed? (if yes, explain)
A: No.
Q: On how many occasions have you been retained as an expert?
A: Several hundred
Q: For what area(s) of expertise have you been retained as an expert?
A: Generally architecture, construction, job site safety, value analysis/value engineering
Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the plaintiff?
A: Approximately fifty percent.
Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the defendant?
A: Approximately fifty percent.
Q: On how many occasions have you had your deposition taken?
A: About one hundred fifty.
Q: When was the last time you had your deposition taken?
A: 2000
Q: On how many occasions have you been qualified by a court to give expert testimony?
A: Approximately fifty.
Q: On how many occasions have you testified as an expert in court or before an arbitrator?
A: Approximately fifty.
Q: For how many years have you worked with the legal industry as an expert?
A: Twenty nine years.
Q: What services do you offer? (E.g.: consulting, testing, reports, site inspections etc.)
A: Consulting, testing, reports, site inspections, and testimony
Q: What is your hourly rate to consult with an attorney?
A: $200.
Q: What is your hourly rate to review documents?
A: $200.
Q: What is your hourly rate to provide deposition testimony?
A: $200 with $800 minimum. Travel billed at $200/hour.
Q: What is your hourly rate to provide testimony at trial?
A: $200 with a 1,000 minimum. Travel billed at $200/hour.
Q: Please list any fees other than those stated above (E.g.: travel expenses, copy fees, etc.)
A: All other expenses (airfare, taxi, rental car, lodging computer charges, special photo processing or graphics services, etc.)charged at cost.
