Jesus Schuldes, PSP, CEP

Jesus Schuldes has more than 15 years of experience in the public and private sectors of the architecture, engineering, and construction (“AEC”) industry. His experience includes proactive and forensic project controls, project assessment and management, construction cost estimating, change order evaluation, cost analysis, project planning, scheduling, and construction claims analysis. He has worked with law firms, owners, contractors, subcontractors, and insurance carriers, and has provided analysis and testimony in arbitration and court proceedings involving construction standard of care, damages, cost of repair, changed work, delay, disruption, productivity loss, and related construction disputes.

His experience includes evaluating contractor performance, construction management practices, and contractor standard of care issues. He has evaluated issues involving contractor coordination, sequencing, manpower planning, schedule management, change management, cost control, documentation, notice, subcontractor coordination, quality control, repair scope development, and the reasonableness of contractor actions in response to project conditions, alleged defects, changed work, and delays.

Jesus Schuldes develops, analyzes, updates, and monitors construction schedules, and trains owners and contractors on scheduling best practices, project controls procedures, and construction management principles. He also provides construction cost estimating services, including third-party project estimates, estimate audits and verification, pricing of construction projects and changed work, cost-to-repair estimates, bid documentation assessments, pricing support, and contractor cost submission reviews.

As a forensic expert, Jesus Schuldes provides mediation, arbitration, and litigation support, including expert witness testimony on construction-related claims involving schedule, productivity, cost, damages, and contractor performance issues. He assesses and quantifies labor productivity losses and performs schedule delay analysis using critical path methodologies, including as-planned versus as-built, windows analysis, impacted as-planned, collapsed as-built, and time impact analysis.