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EXPERT WITNESS

 Failure Analysis for Nuclear, Civil and Environmental Engineering Projects

DR. ERNEST M. MIHOLITS IS CURRENTLY ON SABBATICAL

Phone: 650.712.1015; San Francisco Area, CA
Email: drernie@miholits-engineers.com


REPRESENTATIVE NUCLEAR PROJECTS


Photos and illustrations applicable to this "Expert Witness" consulting business: (1) photo of Dr. Ernest M. Miholits; (2) DOE-WIPP-Defense Nuclear Waste Repository, Carlsbad, NM; (3) DOE-Defense Waste Processing Facility at the Savannah River Site, Aiken SC; (4) DOE-Uranium Enrichment Plant, Oak Ridge, TN; (5) Representative Nuclear Projects; (6) Three Mile Island Nuclear Facility, Harrisburg, PA (7) illustration of an atom; and (8) external proactive structural upgrade to the retaining wall adjacent to the beam line at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC).

SCOPE OF EXPERT WITNESS CONSULTING SERVICES

  • EXPERT WITNESS SPECIALTY: Dr. Miholits' forte is failure analysis studies for specific types of failure or accident incidents as they apply to civil, nuclear and/or environmental engineering projects.

    • He uses his education and over 30 years of experience on those high-profile projects that have an increased potential for failures and accidents. This can be followed by undesirable consequences and an enhanced litigation risk potential.

    • He combines the preceding with studies to find the cause of the engineering incident. Please click on Curriculum Vitae

    • He uses forensic research, analysis and evaluations as the primary input to the litigation support services he provides as an expert witness consultant. Please click on Forensic Research  

    • He then uses this information to provide expert witness consulting services related to the aforementioned incident to the legal profession. Please click on Expert Witness

    • He also does additional engineering consulting in the failure analysis area to expand his credentials as an expert witness consultant. Please click on Engineering Consultant 

  • EXPERT WITNESS TARGET AUDIENCE: Dr. Miholits' target audience for his expert witness and failure analysis consulting services includes:

    • Engineering expert witness firms who are under contract to legal firms and who require consulting assistance.
    • Legal firms who contract for the services of expert witness engineering firms:
      • The legal firms have Clients who are companies who own/operate a high-profile facility where a failure and/or accident has already occurred. The facility then has instigated legal action against the appropriate groups, such as the engineering firms who have designed the facility, the constructors, the equipment suppliers, et cetera.
      • The legal firms have Clients who are employees or individuals who are or were employees at a high-profile facility. These employees then instigated legal action against this company because a failure and/or accident has already occurred and these people are alleging injury, health problems, et cetera.
    • Expert witness staffing firms who provide expert witness engineering consultants to legal firms and/or engineering expert witness firms in the above named engineering areas.

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