About
Roger is a licensed mechanical engineer who provides engineering design, forensic analysis, and expert witness consulting in plumbing systems, fuel gas systems, HVAC systems, and fire protection. His specialty areas include hot water systems, hot water scalding, carbon monoxide poisoning related to the venting of gas appliances, and Legionnaires disease.
He has provided expert witness services, including deposition and trial testimony, since 2002.
Mr. 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 in resolving construction disputes involving changes, delays, damages, and impacted labor efficiency 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 when 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 plaintiffs 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.
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