Deconstruction

Watershape Consulting, Inc. provides expert witness services for construction defect, personal injury, drowning, patent, and trade secret cases.

When we deconstruct a project or incident we are breaking it down into individual parts and sequences. Deconstruction is a general term we use to describe a number of expert witness services we provide:

  • Expert Witness
  • Forensics
  • Reverse Engineering
  • Opinion Reports
  • Repair Protocol
  • Litigation Support

Deconstruction, in the context of forensics, requires destructive, limited-destructive, and non-destructive analysis, testing and reverse-engineering to determine what happened in the original construction. It often requires careful removal of layers to get to the root-cause of a construction defect for expert witness purposes.

Forensics

  • Field work
  • Code compliance
  • General consulting
  • Structural testing and analysis
  • Mechanical testing and analysis
  • Electrical testing and analysis
  • Lighting testing and analysis
  • Plumbing/hydraulic testing and analysis

Reverse Engineering

  • Reverse engineering
  • Code compliance
  • Structural analysis of built environment
  • Mechanical analysis of built environment
  • Electrical analysis of built environment
  • Lighting analysis of built environment
  • Plumbing/hydraulic analysis of built environment
  • General consulting
  • Construction defect

Expert Witness Services

  • Forensics
  • Reverse engineering
  • Code compliance
  • General consulting
  • Expert opinion reports
  • Trial exhibits
  • Scope of work to repair
  • Cost to repair
  • Litigation support
  • Construction defect
  • Patent infringement
  • Personal injury
  • Depositions
  • Opposing deposition prep
  • Mediations
  • Arbitration
  • Hearings
  • Jury trials
  • Administrative law hearings

Curriculum Vitae

Our founder, David J. Peterson, P.E., IWI, has a wide range of experience as a registered professional engineer in the aquatics industry. He obtained his B.S. Civil Engineering with a concentration in water resources from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1995. But, his career in water and litigation support began in 1993 while researching failed polybutylene plumbing systems for class-action lawsuits.

Peterson also has patents for various products used in the pool and spa industry. His expert witness services have included patent infringement, trade secret, construction defect, personal injury, drowning, suction entrapment, and other aquatic industry matters.

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Years of Legal Experience

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Expert Witness Cases