Forensic Engineering

FTS Offers the Following Services in This Category:

  • Council reports

  • Design & construction reviews

  • Expert witness reports

  • Dilapidation and property condition report

  • Event impact modelling assessment (e.g. wind, rainfall, hailstorm, earthquake, storm, flood, tidal and wave action) and damage report

  • Feasibility study, lifecycle and maintenance assessment report

  • Investigation of subsurface conditions

  • Safety first - electronic services location and dial before you dig services check

  • Services & Tree root impact assessment

  • Pipeline and cable service locations

  • Manual “potholing” as required.

  • Services assessment report

  • Review the insurance loss adjusters report, inspect the site, determine cause and the events leading up to the failure and provide a written report and expert opinion investigation)

  • Report on support methodology of adjoining properties during construction

  • Site services search, location, detection and condition audit

  • Attend hearing with legal Counsel and at court

  • Prepare joint report with other experts

  • Prepare “Scott schedules” for remedial works

  • Test pit excavations using FTS mini-excavator

  • Site services search, location, detection and condition audit

FTS Provide Forensic Investigation Engineering Services To:

  • Support claim for the damages that you allege have been caused to your property

  • Review and compliance reports for easements (for access, support and drainage)

  • Determine the cause of damage and how to repair your property

  • Defend a claim made against you

  • Prevent property damage caused by trees

  • Poor quality of construction

  • Lodge an insurance claim from storms

  • Covenant compliance

  • Appeal against a declined insurance claim

Accurate and Efficient Forensic Investigation

Since 1990, FTS has been involved in property inspections and forensic engineering. FTS has represented organisations and private clients for insurance claims and has worked on large projects by Cunningham Lindsay (Tip Top Bakery Fire at Fairfield in 2002 and the Anzac Day Huntingwood Estate Hailstorm Damage in 2015, Multiple Factories and Distribution Centres) and smaller projects for KGM Consultants and other private clients in NSW and QLD. As recently as April 2018, FTS was involved in a court hearing with respect to an access claim concerning drainage and damage due to improper construction work by a neighbour in Woollahra as expert witness.

FTS’s director is an experienced expert witness and has been cross-examined at court in presenting evidence on specific cases – the first case was in 1992 involving personal injury and property damage. The second was in 2003 and based on our arguments and evidence forced an amendment to the operation and interpretation of the Rivers and Foreshore Act about creek definition and its foreshore. The most recent case involved a private development with issues extending over nearly 11 years ending with a related court hearing in 2018. If there is likely to be a dispute with a third party, then you will need an experienced lawyer who understands property law and litigation proceedings.

FAIRDINKUM TECHNICAL SERVICES CAN HELP YOU!

Please call us on 0431 007 313 or go to the contact us now page to fill in our Inquiry Form.