DESIGN EXPERT WITNESS SERVICES, CONSTRUCTION EXPERT WITNESS SERVICES

Bernstein & Associates, Architects provides two distinct but complementary professional offerings: Architectural Services and Expert Witness Services. Since the firm’s founding in 1990, principal William N. Bernstein, AIA has built a practice that designs successful projects in healthcare, laboratories, and commercial sectors, while also serving the legal community as an expert witness in design and construction litigation on a wide range of project types.

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Expert Witness Services
Expert witness services in design and construction are required by attorneys litigating disputes involving architectural defects, construction defects, scope of work disagreements, standard-of-care questions, code compliance, project delays, and cost overruns. An effective expert witness in the areas of design and construction combines extensive hands-on design and construction experience with the credentials, written record, and communication skills necessary to render credible opinions and testify clearly to judges, juries, arbitrators, and mediators. The right expert helps counsel evaluate the merits of a case early, develops well-supported opinions, and presents complex technical issues in plain, persuasive language.

Bernstein & Associates, Architects, through its principal William N. Bernstein, AIA, has provided design and construction expert witness services on more than forty cases in the United States and internationally since 2006. Mr. Bernstein is Yale-trained, NCARB-certified, LEED-accredited, and the author of two books and over forty articles on architecture and construction — a written record that supports his credibility on the stand. The firm has provided expert witness services across a wide range of project types, including apartments, banks, condos, coops, healthcare, hospitals, hotels, houses, industrial, laboratories, offices, residential, restaurants, retail, schools, and townhouses. In addition to project types, the firm through its principal provides expert witness services involving ADA, premises liability, and standard of care.