Practice Areas
Defense of Design Professionals
For over twenty years, Powell Trachtman has been regularly retained by some of the most prominent design professional firms in the country, as well as their professional liability insurance carriers, to defend architectural and engineering malpractice actions, and to provide pre-claim assistance for the purpose of avoiding or minimizing claims. Those claims have involved a wide range of development, design, construction and commissioning issues and events, including:
- Structural failures;
- Schedule-impacts (delay, acceleration and inefficiency claims);
- Contractor requests for adjustments to contract time and sum;
- Environmental contamination;
- Building envelope performance failures;
- Major building component and system failures (for example, roof structures and systems, HVAC systems and foundation systems);
- Land development and site civil engineering issues;
- Geotechnical engineering issues;
- Design and construction issues related to design of roadways, roadway bridges and elevated railroad structures;
- Bodily injury and property damages caused by the construction process or some element of the completed structure.
Many of our attorneys have devoted their careers to the service of design professionals, and some are trained in the architecture and engineering disciplines. It is no exaggeration to state that our experience and expertise in this area is unparalleled.
See the Problems Prevented and Solved section of the website for some examples of the results we have achieved on behalf of design professional firms.
