Ceramic Tile and Stone Consultants, Inc. - Engineering and failure analysis expert witness

Based inJamul, California

Main fieldEngineering and failure analysis

Areas of expertise21 listed

About Ceramic Tile and Stone Consultants, Inc.

Ceramic Tile and Stone Consultants (CTaSC) is a full-service company, providing forensic investigations and remediation, expert witness, testing, reporting, installation specifications, quality control, training, market research, business planning, and more.

CTaSC has inspectors in or near most major cities in USA and Canada, and some inspectors located in other countries.

Our company specializes in ceramic tile, glass tile, stone, terrazzo and brick consulting. We are a professional company of expert consultants comprised of accomplished ceramic tile and stone installers, construction scientists, and other industry specialists. We perform inspections and investigations nationwide and in Canada, and have local inspectors near most major markets.

Services

CTaSC provides the following services:

- Forensic Failure Investigations for Ceramic Tile and Stone Installations

CTaSC has local inspectors near most major markets throughout the U.S. and Canada who will travel to tile or stone problem sites to inspect, evaluate, and report findings, with a scientific approach.

CTaSC will investigate and inspect ceramic tile, glass tile, and stone (granite, limestone, travertine, slate, sandstone, marble, etc.) installation applications that includes tile exterior veneers, tile steam rooms, tile showers and bathtubs, tile swimming pools and water fountains, tile floors, tile spas, tile domes, and etc.

CTaSC performs ceramic tile and stone inspections for the Tile Council of North America (TCNA) and the Marble Institute of America (MIA). CTaSC provides objective ceramic tile and stone inspections based on Tile Council of America Handbook (TCA) and ANSI standards and based on MIA Dimension Stone Design Manual standards.

- Quality Control Services for Ceramic Tile and Stone Products and Installation Methods

CTaSC will review existing specifications to evaluate and advise suitability of the product and the methods of installation relative to the specified applications and intended use and the level of required performance.

- Testing

CTaSC performs project site testing to include ceramic tile testing, glass tile testing, limestone testing, granite testing, marble testing, travertine testing, sandstone testing, slate testing, and other natural stone assembly testing. CTaSC manages, performs, and evaluates ANSI standards and ASTM physical property laboratory testing on ceramic tile, natural stone, granite, marble, slate, sandstone, limestone, travertine, glass tile, installation materials, and to substantiate or further determine the cause of failures in forensic investigations.

- Market Research

Comprehensive Research Reports for U.S. markets are available that will give you all the details of the Stone Industry, the Ceramic Tile Industry and the Floor Covering Industry as a whole. The reports provide forecasts and trends, and list major importers and their foreign suppliers. CTaSC can also develop online surveys to reach target audiences and markets which will help you better understand your clients' and market needs. For importers or domestic and foreign manufacturers of ceramic tile, stone or related products: CTaSC will test products and research demand to help you position the product in the market, and design the right marketing plan and sales plan.

- Business Planning

We know we should, but most don’t do a formal business plan. Not enough time? No one to do it? Not sure where to start? CTaSC can help you create your business plan. It’s your business plan and you will make the decisions. CTaSC will facilitate the decisions for your company, and then CTaSC will put it into writing for you. CTaSC will facilitate the process of creating the structure and will help you collect the information so you can make the best decisions for your company. Then CTaSC will put it into writing for you.

- Expert Witness

CTaSC is available to perform investigations and provide expert testimony for depositions or court testimony as an Expert Witness.

Litigation Support Services

Ceramic Tile and Stone Consultants, Inc. will assist in obtaining favorable resolutions for ceramic tile and stone failures as a consultant and expert witness.

Areas of Expertise

Adhesives and Glues
Business Strategy
Ceramic Tile
Construction
Construction Claims
Construction Disputes
Failure Analysis

Flooding
Geology
Glass Tile
Granite
Investigation
Limestone
Marble

Marketing Research
Mediation
Mold
Research
Slip and Fall
Terrazzo
Total Quality Control

Additional Expertise:

Porcelain Tile

Profile

Donato Pompo has been a Ceramic Tile Consultant (CTC) since 1979 when he received certification from the Ceramic Tile Institute of America (CTIOA). He is recent past chairman of the CTIOA Technical Committee.

Mr. Pompo serves on Tile Council of America's (TCA) and the American National Standards Institute's (ANSI) standard committees that are responsible for updating and setting standards for the ceramic tile industry. He has been a member of the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) since 1982, and is certified as a Construction Document Technologist (CDT) and a Council-Certified Microbial Remediator (CMR). He is a member of the Forensic Consultants Association and the Forensic Expert Witness Association.

Mr. Pompo's undergraduate training is in biochemistry and he also has an MBA. His formal education, combined with over 35 years of experience in the field of tile and stone, from installation to distribution to manufacturing, makes Mr. Pompo a very effective and knowledgeable expert witness. His company, Ceramic Tile and Stone Consultants, has inspectors in most major markets nationwide and Canada.