{"id":901355,"date":"2023-06-29T15:14:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T21:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/?p=901355"},"modified":"2023-06-29T15:14:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T21:14:19","slug":"expert-testimony-measured-mile-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/expert-testimony-measured-mile-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Allows Expert Testimony Regarding Measured Mile Analysis Comparing Work on Different Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>John Mark Goodman | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buildsmartbradley.com\/2023\/06\/court-allows-expert-testimony-regarding-measured-mile-analysis-comparing-work-on-different-projects\/?utm_source=Bradley+Arant+Boult+Cummings+LLP+-+BuildSmart&amp;utm_campaign=f308ad04da-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_b504caf31b-f308ad04da-78863422\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">BuildSmart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Loss of productivity damages are commonly estimated using a \u201cmeasured mile\u201d analysis, which compares unimpacted construction work to work which has been disrupted to determine the cost impact of the disruption. Such analyses often require <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/expert-testimony-required\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expert testimony<\/a> that must satisfy the reliability requirements of Rule 702 and Daubert.\u00a0Generally speaking, to be reliable the analysis must compare work that is \u201creasonably similar.\u201d As a Colorado federal court recently held, that does not mean the unimpacted and impacted work must be from the same project.\u00a0\u00a0<em>See<\/em>\u00a0<em>Agri-Systems v. Structural Technologies, LLC<\/em>, 2023 WL 3481397 (D. Colo. May 16, 2023).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\u00a0<em>Agri-Systems<\/em>, the defendant moved in limine to exclude the plaintiff\u2019s measured mile analysis because it compared work on different projects.\u00a0The Court rejected the argument that to be reliable a measured mile analysis must compare work on the same project.\u00a0<em>Id<\/em>. at *10 (citing\u00a0Ap<em>peal of P.J. Dick Inc.<\/em>, VABCA 5597\u00a0et al., 2001-2 BCA \u00b631,647 (concluding that an expert\u2019s measured mile analysis was \u201creasonable and valid\u201d where labor, materials, weather conditions, and area of installation were the same between two projects despite some differences). The defendant also pointed to other differences, including the location (Colorado v. Oklahoma), the quantity of men and equipment required, and the type of reinforcing materials (post-tensioning cables v. rebar).\u00a0The Court noted that the plaintiff\u2019s expert had identified many of these differences and provided detailed explanations for why they did not defeat the analysis.\u00a0As such it did not appear that the expert\u2019s selection of the other project for comparison was \u201carbitrary or chosen to achieve a predetermined result.\u201d\u00a0<em>Id<\/em>. citing\u00a0<em>Daewoo Eng\u2019g and Constr. Co., Ltd. v. United States<\/em>, 73 Fed. Cl. 547, 580\u201381 (2006). The Court further held that any unexplained differences between the two projects would go to the weight given to the testimony and not its admissibility.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When one of your cases is in need of a construction expert, estimates, insurance appraisal or umpire services in defect or insurance disputes &#8211; please call Advise &amp; Consult, Inc. at 888.684.8305, or email <a href=\"mailto:experts@adviseandconsult.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">experts@adviseandconsult.net<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Mark Goodman | BuildSmart Loss of productivity damages are commonly estimated using a \u201cmeasured mile\u201d analysis, which compares unimpacted construction work to work which has been disrupted to determine the cost impact of the disruption. Such analyses often require expert testimony that must satisfy the reliability requirements of Rule 702 and Daubert.\u00a0Generally speaking, to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/expert-testimony-measured-mile-analysis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Court Allows Expert Testimony Regarding Measured Mile Analysis Comparing Work on Different Projects<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[9895,120,99,11917],"class_list":["post-901355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expert-witness","tag-advise-consult","tag-colorado","tag-expert-testimony","tag-measured-mile-analysis","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Court Allows Expert Testimony Regarding Measured Mile Analysis Comparing Work on Different Projects - Advise &amp; 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