Mep Expert Witnesses

Danville, California

Construction Defects, Energy - General Construction, Framing, Building Envelope, Mechanical, Electrical, Commercial, Residential, HVAC, Fire Sprinkler, Generators, MEP, Solar, Fire, Gas, Hybrid Water Heaters, Contract Scope, Cost to Repair, Industrial Controls, Electrocutions, Plumbing

Joe Scerbo is a distinguished construction consultant, expert witness, and construction management advisor with over 36 years of experience in the construction industry. As a licensed General, Electrical, and HVAC Contractor in California for 25 years, Mr. Scerbo has cultivated specialized expertise in Building Envelope, Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) systems. His extensive background includes significant experience in solar energy systems, battery energy storage systems (BESS), microgrid controllers, generators, design-build projects, as well as coordination with local utility jurisdictions such as PG&E. As a Testifying Expert Witness, Mr. Scerbo has been involved in numerous construction-related cases. Serving as Senior Consultant at Danliv, Inc., in the San Francisco Bay area CA, he is a highly skilled expert in providing construction defect and litigation services, which include: - Testing and analysis of construction defects. - Destructive testing following ASTM s...

Coral Gables, Florida

HVAC, Plumbing - Fire Sprinkler, Building Controls, Humidity Control, MEP, Building Pressurization

My name is Felix Mendez. I am a licensed engineer in the State of Florida. I have been designing mechanical and electrical systems for over 20 years, since 2005. I have obtained a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Florida International University and a M.S. degree in construction management from the same. I work currently as the principal engineer for 3FM Consulting, where I have worked since 2013. I have been in responsible charge of the design of hundreds of projects. My design portfolio includes complex mixed-use projects, high-end residential, commercial and government projects. Prior to 3FM Consulting, I worked as a designer and project manager for large national engineering firms in the design of high-rise and mixed use projects. Over the past decade, I have performed over 20 evaluations of existing mechanical and electrical systems. As part of those evaluations, I have presented recommendations for system troubleshooting, retrofits and replacement. Please refer to my...

Dallas, Texas

Construction, Technology - Building Information Modeling (BIM), Level Of Development (LOD), Structural Engineering, 3D Modeling, Laser Scanning, LiDAR, scan-to-BIM, Metrology, Failure Analysis, Forensic Engineering, Architecture, MEP, mechanical, construction defects, concrete, steel, wood, timber, masonry, civil engineering

Dr. Will Ikerd, PhD, P.E. (TX) is principal at IKERD, a firm that specializes in consulting for attorneys, owners, general contractors, trade contractors and designers of buildings, civil, infrastructure, mechanical and manufacturing projects. The firm focuses in the areas of engineering, laser scanning, Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) and Building Information Modeling (BIM). Mr. Ikerd is currently on the board of directors of the BIMForum and chairs three of their Taskforces; BIM Execution Plan (BxP), Reality Capture / Laser scanning and Level Of Development (LOD). He graduated with his bachelor’s in civil engineering and masters in structural engineering in 1998 from Washington University in St. Louis with a focus on 3D parametric modeling and is currently a University of Denver PhD candidate in BIM research.