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BUILDING SCIENCE AND CONSTRUCTION SERVICES
Walters Forensic Engineering offers expertise in the field of building construction, identification of problems relating to all types of residential, commercial and industrial constructions. Structural assessments, utility services, problems associated with water damage and mould. We also offer expertise for investigating construction claims and construction deficiencies.
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FIRE INVESTIGATION
Our fires and explosions group investigate a wide range of building and vehicle fire and explosion accidents and catastrophic events to determine both origin and cause, as well as liability for the loss. Other services include fire and explosion modeling and dynamics analysis, fire and flammability testing, appliance testing and loss evaluation. Our Fires and Explosions group is comprised of chemical, material, mechanical, and electrical engineers, and certified fire investigators.
Our experience includes investigations of residential, commercial and industrial properties, incendiary fires, industrial fires and explosions involving hazardous materials, natural gas and propane services, dust fires and explosions, lightning strikes, and explosions attributed to mechanical or electrical malfunctions, and arson.
Walters Forensic Engineering investigations into incidents are based upon analysis of physical evidence, the results of examination and testing and the assessment of reported information.
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HUMAN FACTORS
When there is a personal
injury due to a 'slip and fall', the failure of machinery or the poor design of
equipment, we provide 24-hour engineering expertise to analyze and service
these occurrences including the following:
- Workplace design and workers' compensation
- "due diligence" and compliance
- Ergonomics analysis
- Remediation and rehabilitation
- Kinematics and personal injuries
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ENVIRONMENTAL
Environmental services
require a multi-disciplinary engineering approach in order to provide an
accurate evaluation of the environmental conditions of a site or facility, or a
specific contamination. Walters Forensic Engineers' expertise is necessary when
providing:
- Audits and geotechnical investigations
- Facility assessments for the design of buildings,
sewers, roadways
- Remedial engineering for clean-ups and water
contamination
- Site and facility assessments using drilling,
inspection and magnetometer surveys
- Phase I, II, and II Environmental Site
Assessments for insurers, lenders, investors, real estate, manufacturers and
compliance
- Risk based assessments
- Air quality assessments
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3D SCIENTIFIC ANIMATION
Walters Forensic Engineering Inc. offers expertise in 3D scientific animation. 3D scientific animations had been produced in-house at Walters for the past 6 years, thus providing extensive experience.
Using three-dimensional scientific animation, engineers are able to accurately demonstrate to the court the results of their analysis, thus providing viewers with a better understanding of the spatial and temporal aspects of the accident. The occurrence of events could unfold in front of viewers in real time, thus demonstrating how quickly events occurred. Objects such as vehicles, individuals, animals, road geometry, and obstructions can be placed in the accident scene at specific locations and at specific points in time. Other applications include fire origin and spread in a structure, movement of a mechanical apparatus involved in a failure for personal injury or product liability cases, movement of contaminants through soil.
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FORENSIC SCIENCE AND CHEMICAL
ANALYSIS
Walters Forensic Engineering provides expertise in the field of
forensic science such as in the area of industrial chemistry and industrial
chemical processes; material failure analysis, microscopic analysis,
environmental chemical, instrumental and classical wet
analysis.
We provide chemical analysis of abrasives,
automotive, chemical manufacture, explosives,
food stuffs, metals and minerals, paints and coatings,
petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, pulp and paper,
rubber, plastics and polymers, soaps, detergents and cleaners.
We also provide chemical analysis involving:
instrumental techniques and chemical instrumentation, chromatographic
separations, solvent extractions, qualitative, quantitative and structural
spectroscopy, classical wet analysis, microscopy and electrochemical
techniques.
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FILM AND LIVE THEATRE WORKPLACE ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION
Walters Forensic Engineering Inc. provides staff experienced in the live theatre and film industry. Whether it involves fall arrest systems or scenic automation failures, our staff have over 10 years of practical experience to go with his engineering training in order to quickly determine what went wrong and why.
- Failure of aerial rigging systems.
- Injuries due to failure of fall arrest systems.
- Calculations for safety-factors for aerial rigging, including dynamic and shock loading.
- Inspection of safety systems for redundancies of over-audience installations.
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MEDICAL IMPLANT DEVICES
Due to the
advances in medical technology we have added the resources required to meet the
need of this new investigative area. We have expertise in medical implant
devices such as xenograft replacement heart valves, which could have been
improperly stitched. A pre-existing burr on the femoral head of a replacement
hip could cause excessive wear to the polyethylene in an acetabular cup.
Insufficient sintering temperature may cause parts of a porous coating to a
cementless orthopaedic implant to break at reduced stress levels. Corrosion to
the leads of a pacemaker could affect its effectiveness. These are only a few
examples of the types of medical implant devices that may fail requiring
investigation and analysis.
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LITIGATION SUPPORT
Years of courtroom experience and in-house training in litigation support enable our engineers to:
- Give strong expert testimony
- Assist in the development of penetrating questions for cross-examinations
- Provide exceptional technical input for the theory of the case
As engineers specialized in forensics, all of our investigations are conducted with the assumption that we may eventually testify as an expert witness in legal proceedings. All of our experts are experienced with preparing reports and other means of demonstrative evidence which will be undisputed and effective in the courtroom. Having provided technical expert litigation support for over 26 years, Walters Forensic Engineering has established a reputation in the legal industry and with the judiciary for "telling it as it is." Our experts are concise, credible and technically qualified to give expert opinion.
Walters' experts can be relied upon to provide technical litigation support that will make complicated evidence easy to understand in a credible manner that will stand the test of cross-examination.
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