Establishing Scope and Monitoring Repair Costs
Rimkus Building Consultants
EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS THROUGH COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES
Rimkus Building Consultants are prepared to help clients immediately following a catastrophic event with followthrough to the completed rebuild. Utilizing decades of experience in residential, commercial, industrial, and infrastructure construction, as well as cost estimation, we offer a comprehensive and practical approach to the construction and repair cost industries.
Relying on practical, hands-on experience, our accomplished team can establish scope, monitor progress, analyze repair methods, improve efficiencies, and control scope creep through all phases of the rebuild process.
Our Building Consultants are Cost of Repair experts that can assist a client at any stage of the reconstruction. Whether establishing initial exposures, identifying hidden damages and repair protocols, or reviewing invoicing or verification of payment requests, Rimkus can help provide valuable insight to clients regarding proper means and methods, as well as pricing validation.
- Managing catastrophe zone deployments
- Completing damage assessments
- Reviewing Building Codes and identifying Betterments
- Engaging engineering consultations and design services
- Establishing Scope of Work (SOW)
- Managing SOW to eliminate scope creep
- Providing project oversight and construction observations with weekly reporting
- Performing Scheduling and Delay monitoring
- Performing Comparative Estimates and Cost Analysis Public Adjuster matters
- Managing the solicitation of contractor bids
- Providing expert testimony
- Delivering appraiser and umpire services
- Advising on appraisal panel
- Reviewing and analyzing invoices for scope procedures and verification of repairs
- Advising on fair and reasonable pricing
- Providing insight into proper means and methods and work efficiencies
- Performing subrogation reviews for pricing verification and scope necessity
- Verifying and validating Change Orders
- Validating Time and Material invoices
- Reviewing and verifying payment requests
- Managing site visits with adjusters and repair contractors to establish repair scopes
- Providing Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) estimating to evaluate exposure and set limits
- Providing project oversight to help ensure work is proceeding according to plan and assisting with field audits
- Completing large loss repair estimates and reviewing with repair contractors to establish agreed upon scope and pricing
- Performing construction defect investigations
FORENSIC SERVICES
Rimkus is a worldwide provider of forensic engineering and technical consulting to corporations, insurance companies, law firms, and government agencies. Since 1983, our experts have offered a wide array of specialized expertise to help our clients achieve timely resolution of insurance claims, construction issues, and legal disputes.
We provide comprehensive investigations supported by sound methodology, science, and state-of-the-art technology in data acquisition, digital forensics, and laboratory testing. Our experts are skilled at breaking down complex topics so that clients and juries can understand them.
Biomechanical
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Meteorology
Building Consulting
Marine
Environmental
Construction
Transportation
Digital Forensics
Legal Nurse Consulting
Toxicology and Food Safety
Premises Liability and Security
Industrial and Renewable Energy
Property Loss Consulting
Fire and Explosion Science
Materials Science and Engineering
Visual Media and Technology
Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
ABOUT RIMKUS
CONSULTANTS. EXPERTS. INNOVATORS.™
Rimkus is a worldwide provider of engineering, technical, and commercial consulting to corporations, insurance companies, law firms, and government agencies. Our experts specialise in forensic consulting, dispute resolution and construction management services, solutions for the built environment, and human factors support for the consumer, industrial, and healthcare industries.
For more than 40 years, the company’s professional engineers, architects, scientists, and technical and commercial specialists have been recognised for their commitment to service by local, national and international business communities.
CONTACT US
Rimkus Corporate Headquarters 2140 Wickchester Lane, Suite 300 Houston, Texas 77079
Operating from more than 100 offices, the Rimkus team of expert consultants assists clients with complex matters worldwide
