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Michael J. Bennink has 20 years of experience performing expert consulting and project advisory services for global engineering and construction clients. Michael’s experience includes dispute resolution and litigation support, construction costs, damages, and audits, risk management assessments, construction project controls and management, and construction oversight. He regularly focuses on schedule delays, loss of productivity, and cost damage quantification issues. He participates in various claims management and litigation phases, including change order review, litigation, mediation, and settlement discussions and preparing expert reports and analyses.
Michael’s diverse experience includes commercial, residential, and institutional buildings; power plants (fossil fuel, nuclear, and renewable); wastewater treatment plants; roadways and bridges; transportation; infrastructure development; earthworks; petrochemical plants; offshore platforms; oil/gas facilities; and manufacturing and process facilities. He has experience on domestic and international projects and provides a balanced range of perspectives from public and private owners/operators to contractors, engineers, architects, and vendors.
Prior to joining J.S. Held, Michael was a Senior Vice President at Marsh Risk Consulting. Michael has also worked as a manager and consultant at Deloitte in Financial Advisory Services and the litigation-focused consulting firm The Nielsen-Wurster Group. Michael’s engineering background comes from the natural gas industry, where he specialized in project design and management of corporate engineering programs and coordinating maintenance and operations improvements. Michael has designed and supervised projects that include cast iron replacement, large-diameter distribution pipelines, transmission pipelines, metering and regulator stations, and high-traffic rail crossings. He was also a qualified operator assistant at a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility. Additionally, he has experience coordinating utility relocation and installation efforts.
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