Hal Deatherage is a native of Knoxville, TN. He attained his BS degree from the University of Missouri at Rolla in 1965 in Geophysics (Rock Mechanics). A year later he attained his MS degree in Structural Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering in 1987. For the next 20 years Dr. Deatherage was responsible for the Construction Program in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The University of Tennessee. In addition to his teaching, Dr. Deatherage was an Associate Director in the Transportation Research Center and an Associate Director for the Construction Industry Research and Policy Center.
Dr Deatherage has been a Licensed Professional Engineer since 1973. He was the Principal in a Consulting Firm specializing in engineering and architectural services. He was President and Chief Operating Officer of a regional construction firm specializing in design-build services. He currently is a Professor Emeritus in Civil Engineering and Partner in Construction Engineering Consultants.
Over the last 38 years he has testified more than 400 times in litigation issues involving design, safety, construction productivity, construction claims, forensic failure analysis, erosion and sediment control issues, maintenance, construction quality, and other structural and civil engineering issues. CEC’s client base includes several ENR Top 400 Construction firms. Additionally our litigation clients are national. We have provided litigation support in Michigan, Iowa, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida and Tennessee. Dr. Deatherage’s areas of expertise as an expert witness are as follows:
- Structural Engineering
- Design Defects and Quality of Construction Evaluations
- Property and Casualty Loss Investigations
- Forensic Engineering and Failure Analysis
- Construction Claims
- Codes and Regulation issues related to Highway and Building Construction
- Personal Injury resulting from design defects and construction related issues
- Construction Safety
David Chapman is a native of Knoxville, TN by way of Asheville, NC. He returned to Knoxville to attend the University of Tennessee in 1998, and has since earned a Bachelors of Science of Civil Engineering, a Master’s of Science of Civil Engineering with Construction Engineering Concentration, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering with Construction Engineering Concentration.
Dr. Chapman has taught construction related courses at the graduate and undergraduate level at the University of Tennessee. Dr. Chapman has been involved with several TDOT (Tennessee Department of Transportation) sponsored research projects. Most recently Dr. Chapman managed the research efforts concerning the Massman Dr. Bridge in Nashville, TN.
At an early age, Dr. Chapman was employed by a home builder as a laborer and a carpenter. He has since worked for Taylor and Murphy Construction Company in Ashville, and Jones Bros / Britton Bridge in Knoxville. David has also managed the restoration and reconstruction of a large Victorian era home in the Fort Sanders area of Knoxville, and has provided contract administration services on a Historic reuse / condominium conversion project in Nashville, TN. Since 2005 David has created and / or maintained CPM schedules for approximately $550 million worth of highway and heavy civil construction projects. Dr. Chapman’s primary contribution to Construction Engineering Consultants is creating and maintaining schedules for highway construction type projects, forensic scheduling and engineering related to litigation support services.
Areas of Expertise:
- Project Scheduling
- Forensic Scheduling
- Construction Claims
- Structural Engineering
- Property and Casualty Loss Investigations
- Construction Claims
- Construction Management
