About Roger W. Griffith, P.E.
Roger Griffith, P.E. provides engineering design, forensic analysis, and expert witness consulting in plumbing, fuel gas systems, HVAC, and fire protection. Specialty areas include hot water systems, scalding, carbon monoxide poisoning related to venting of gas appliances, and legionella.
He has provided expert witness services, including deposition and trial testimony for over ten years.
Services
Roger W. Griffith is committed to providing investigative engineering, consulting and expert witness services that are thorough, credible and timely. As a licensed professional engineer he can assist in the following areas:
Construction Claims: He can review documents, perform site inspections, research industry standards, prepare reports and exhibits, and provide presentations to assist clients to resolve construction disputes involving changes, delays, damages and impacted labor efficiency as related to building mechanical, plumbing and sprinkler systems.
Design Errors and Omissions: Case review and analysis of HVAC, plumbing, piping, and sprinkler system design work to determine whether the engineering design meets the standard of care for the area and at the time the work was performed. This often requires document review, research and design calculations.
Litigation Support and Expert Witness: Roger Griffith prepares exhibits and provides testimony based upon independent and impartial investigation, research, analysis and testing. He also assists clients through the mediation and arbitration process.
Construction Defects: Roger Griffith investigates HVAC, plumbing, fire protection and piping system failures. After careful research and analysis, Roger provides objective opinions regarding causation and damages.
Litigation Support Services
Roger Griffith, P.E. provides expert testimony and litigation support services for plaintiff and defendants on plumbing, mechanical and fire sprinkler system defects and failures.
As a mechanical engineer, his training and experience designing plumbing, HVAC and fire sprinkler systems enable him to offer professional opinions regarding the adequacy of system design, construction, maintenance and operation.
Areas of Expertise
- Appliances
- Building Codes
- Carbon Monoxide
- Construction
- Construction Claims
- Construction Disputes
- Engineering Design
- Engineering HVAC
- Engineering Investigation
- Engineering Mechanical
- Explosion
- Failure Analysis
- HVAC
- Industrial Equipment
- Investigation
- Legionella
- Mechanical
- Pipe Failure
- Plumbing
- Plumbing Design
- Plumbing Failures
- Products Liability
- Professional Malpractice
- Professional Responsibility
- Scalding
- Sewers
- Sprinkler Systems
- Water
- Water Safety
Additional Expertise:
Scalding; Water Heater Failures; Gas Venting; Carbon Monoxide Poisoning.
Profile
As a mechanical engineer, Mr. Griffith's training and experience designing plumbing, HVAC and fire sprinkler systems enable him to offer professional opinions regarding the adequacy of system design, construction, maintenance and operation. With his experience and training in failure analysis, he can also evaluate equipment failures to determine their root cause.
Roger serves on the American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE) national design standards committee that provides industry guidelines for hot water temperature limits for plumbing systems to prevent scalding.
Areas of expertise include:
- * Plumbing Systems and Equipment and associated failures, damages and injury causation
- * Plumbing Code Compliance
- * Hot Water Systems
- * Hot Water Scalding
- * Gas Appliances
- * Venting of Gas Appliances and Combustion Safety
- * Fire Sprinkler Systems
- * Construction Defects
- * HVAC Systems Design
- * HVAC Equipment - Failure Analysis
Consulting Practice
All States
More Information
HVAC Design Expert Witness
Hot Water Scalding
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Legionella Forensic Consultant
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