Category: Construction Construction Delays Analysis Methods TASA ID: 2488 Construction projects often suffer from delays due to a wide variety of reasons, which can have severe financial impact on the project. As a result, delay claims may be filed. The analysis of the delay impact, the causes, and effects of the delaying activities is one of the most complicated types of claims analysis. It requires an expert with extensive knowledge of construction projects, means and methods, scheduling, and the ability to develop a sound methodology to conduct the analysis. Most of these delay claims reach the expert after completion of the project. This results in a detail- intensive research of the documents to verify schedules, events, sequence of work, changes during construction, and the delay impact. Read more
Category: Computer/Internet, e-Discovery Local Bar Associations Getting on Board with Social Media TASA ID: 4285 Look no further than your local bar to realize that ignorance is no longer an excuse for not appropriately dealing with social media issues for yourself or your clients. With the Philadelphia Bar Association’s guidance, released this summer, that excuse will certainly no longer apply to attorneys in the City of Brotherly Love. Read more
Category: Chemicals / Toxic Substances, Environment Vat Dyes: Chemistry, Manufacture and Waste Streams TASA ID: 3009 The discovery of vat dyes in the early 1900's was a major technological advance for the industry...However, the hazardous organic chemicals, solvents and heavy metals used in the manufacture led to severe environmental consequences at locations where wastewater and solid waste management practices were deficient. Read more
Category: Chemicals / Toxic Substances Baby Injured by Hazardous Material on Stroller: How a Chemical Expert’s Detective Work Helped Solve the Mystery TASA ID: 745 A young mother purchased a child stroller at a local mass merchandiser store in Indianapolis, Indiana, in early summer. Later that day she began walking with the baby in the stroller to bring her infant daughter to visit the child's grandparents about two miles away. With the child safely strapped in the new stroller, she walked for about an hour, stopping twice to comfort her baby, who was crying and appearing uncomfortable. Read more
Category: Business & Commerce, Financial/Economic A Comparison of a Commonly Used Valuation Multiple to Real World Data TASA ID: 4374 A few months ago, I had an interesting chat with a very successful proprietor of a contractor supply retailer. He explained that, in his line of business, the sales price of a firm would be three to four times earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), plus inventory, less dead and dying stock. Read more
