Mr. Broz is a Principal in ESi’s Mechanics Practice. He has over 45 years of strong, diverse engineering and business experience including mechanical building system and industrial facility design, mechanical system failure analysis, construction claims, patent litigation, and economic analysis. A seasoned expert witness, Mr. Broz has given oral evidence on more than 40 occasions, in forums including U.S. state and federal court, U.S. domestic arbitration, and international arbitration. Matters have encompassed a broad spectrum of case types including design standard-of-care, construction defect, class action tort litigation, patent disputes, and property/casualty matters.
Mr. Broz has particular expertise in power and process piping design, and served for more than 10 years on the Design Task Group of the ASME Power Piping Committee (B31.1). He has designed high-temperature and -pressure piping systems for power plants and process facilities, and is highly experienced in pipe stress analysis.
Mr. Broz previously served as an operations manager for the Construction Claims Consulting Group of ARCADIS. He has spearheaded claims analyses for a wide variety of projects, with issues ranging from schedule delay and loss of productivity to evaluation and pricing of direct-cost change orders. Mr. Broz is especially well versed in the analysis of complex design and construction contracts, on such varied issues as obligations of parties, delay and disruption, and sustainable design and construction.
Economic analyses performed by Mr. Broz have included net present value and return on investment for energy conservation projects, new capital programs, and major engineering system modifications.
An early adopter of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system, Mr. Broz has designed LEED projects for new construction up to the Gold award level.
Areas of Expertise
Publications
- Computational fluid dynamics model of gravity-induced slurry flow, Proceedings of the 2024 ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. ASME, New York, NY, October 2024
- Earthquakes: Risks, Preparation, Aftermath, American Bar Association, January 2019
- Sustainable Design and Building, More Sticks and Bricks, January 2018
- The LEEDing Criteria, Green Building and the Construction Lawyer: A Practical Guide to Transactional and Litigation Issues, Chapter 4, January 2014
- Forensic Engineering Investigation of a Fuel Oil Pipeline Failure, National Academy of Forensic Engineers Journal, Vol. XXIX No. 1, June 2012
- Green Building and Risk Management, Constructive Technologies Group, Inc., January 2007
- Ethics and the Expert Witness — When to Hang Up the Phone, Construction Claims Advisor, WPL Publications, February 2007
- Siphon Quenches Drought, Civil Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, August 1990