Richard W. Lamb Executive Consultant

Richard W. Lamb has over 45 years of industry experience specializing in project and program management, claims preparation and analysis, and a broad range of associated consulting services on hydroelectric projects, hospitals, office buildings, industrial complexes and other major large scale projects.

Mr. Lamb was President of two construction consulting firms and Senior Vice President with the largest privately owned construction management firm in the United States. He has worked as an in-house expert for a major American law firm specializing in construction litigation and has been formally recognized in multiple forums as an expert in claims involving delay and disruption, change, differing site conditions, productivity and other related problems. He has been responsible for claims preparation, analysis and presentation, project scheduling and administration, assisting counsel in trial preparation, litigation support and expert witness testimony.

As a consultant, Mr. Lamb serves as an expert to contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, owners, sureties, financial institutions, law firms and other stakeholders. He is listed as an expert in the American Bar Association’s Register of Expert Witnesses in the Construction Industry. He has qualified and testified as an expert in CPM scheduling, delay and disruption analyses, direct costs and delay damages on 45 occasions on a wide variety of projects including airport/aviation, highway, road and bridge, industrial, process and assembly plants, combined cycle power plants, wastewater treatment plants, commercial and government office buildings, hospitals, resort/hotels, military installations, institutional and correctional facilities, residential, underground pipeline and fiber optic, educational and entertainment/stadium projects.

Mr. Lamb is a past member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association. He has lectured in the field of construction scheduling, project cost control and construction management. He has contributed to several articles dealing with related construction topics and is co-author of The Mechanical Contractor’s Handbook of Claims Avoidance and Management, 1985. Mr. Lamb is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Electronic Engineering School and holds an A.S. Degree in Electronics Technology from Humphreys College, 1960.