Construction
George Calkins is recognized for his ability to resolve mutli-party disputes involving the engineering of infrastructures such as utilities, freeways and roadways, bridges, water and sewage system facilities, and drainage systems. He is highly sought after settlement officer for closing complex multi-million dollar construction projects that present complicated delay, disruption, extra work, and work quality issues. Such cases often involve complex overlapping and interrelated accounting, technical, construction, management, and design issues. George Calkins has been a leader in effectively concluding closeouts of public works and commercial projects.
George Calkins is an expert in assisting parties and lawyers in their development of construction claims avoidance and risk management techniques. He has a reputation for assisting sophisticated public agencies, hotel entities, and developers in implementing construction claims avoidance techniques involving a mixture of maximizing insurance, customer service and quality control measures. He has resolved hundreds of disputes involving construction means and methods, construction defect claims, and real estate development as well as cases involving complex structural, mechanical, geotechnical, and engineering issues. He has creatively resolved disputes involving major real estate developments, condominiums, hotels, shopping centers, office complexes, single- and multi-family residential projects, school and university buildings, industrial facilities, and other commercial and public buildings.
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George Calkins has successfully mediated and arbitrated construction cases including the following.
Representative Matters
- Airports
- John Wayne Airport (SNA), Orange County (runway projects)
- Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Los Angeles County (building construction)
- Bridge Construction, Orange County
- Building Projects
- Fresno, California (federal and public housing project closeout)
- Japantown Peace Plaze, San Francisco (massive leakage)
- Construction contract closeout, delay, and extra work disputes on commercial and public projects
- Sophisticated HVAC systems
- Plumbing methods, techniques and applications in hotels, shopping centers, condominiums, and office buildings
- Electrical distribution system
- Engineering: Structural; electrical; mechanical; and civil engineering disputes over grading balance, and grading quantity and quality
- Highways/Roads
- Toll road/freeway project, Orange County
- Interstate 5 and 110 Freeway (substantial welding defects)
- Yolo County, Northern California (road resurfacing)
- Roadway projects of all kinds, including paving and substrate issues and road structures
- Seismic and structural claims, such as sizing of beams, adequacy of connections
- Industrial Projects
- Water District, Orange County (closeout dispute regarding system performance)
- Refuge transfer station closeout (Los Angeles)
- Los Angeles, Orange, and Ventura Counties (infrastructure issues, including sewer, storm drain, and water systems)
- Freeze shoring technology as to sewer replacement project under Los Angeles Harbor
- Schools
- Central High School, Los Angeles (construction project)
- Public school renovation projects, Orange, Los Angeles, and Ventura Counties