Construction Consultants & Expert Witnesses
Boca Raton Construction Consulting
Forensic schedule analysis, delay and disruption opinions, and defect and damages consulting for Boca Raton construction disputes, including work in the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit and the Southern District of Florida.
Oxley serves Boca Raton construction matters from its office at 13830 58th St N, Suite 403, Clearwater, FL 33760. The firm does not maintain a Boca Raton office. We travel for depositions, mediations, site visits and document reviews in Boca Raton and southern Palm Beach County.
When a civic, commercial or residential project finishes late, or is in a schedule dispute, the questions are usually the same. Which events actually moved the completion date? How much time or cost does each one account for? What do the baseline, the updates and the daily record show, as opposed to what each side remembers? Those questions are evaluated against the contract and the available evidence.
Boca Raton and southern Palm Beach County
This page covers construction matters in Boca Raton. For West Palm Beach and the rest of Palm Beach County, see West Palm Beach and Palm Beach County. Nearby: the Town of Palm Beach and Palm Beach Gardens and Jupiter.
Courts and forums where delay opinions are tested
State court: Boca Raton civil matters are heard in the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit at the Palm Beach County Courthouse, 205 N. Dixie Hwy., West Palm Beach, which also lists a complex business litigation division and coordinates court-ordered civil mediation.
Federal court: Boca Raton is in the Southern District of Florida, West Palm Beach Division, Paul G. Rogers Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 701 Clematis St., West Palm Beach, which serves Palm Beach County.
Appeals: From Boca Raton circuit cases, appeals go to Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal, 110 S. Tamarind Ave., West Palm Beach, covering the Fifteenth, Seventeenth and Nineteenth Circuits; federal appeals go to the Eleventh Circuit.
Arbitration and mediation: many Boca Raton and Palm Beach County contracts require mediation first or arbitration, often under the AAA Construction Industry Arbitration Rules. The analysis is the same in each forum; disclosure timing, report format and how testimony is taken change.
The Boca Raton projects behind these disputes
Civic, commercial and residential construction in Boca Raton generates schedule, defect and damages disputes. Public owners bring their own schedule specifications, time-extension procedures, notice requirements and liquidated damages clauses, and those terms frame any delay analysis.
Public owners that build in Boca Raton include the City of Boca Raton and Palm Beach County. They are listed here to describe the local market, not as Oxley clients.
Dan’s experience, as an employee and as an expert, includes civic buildings, condominiums and residential work. Earlier in his career, he managed residential construction for general contractors in South Florida. That was prior employment experience, not work performed by Oxley.
Technical questions
Questions a Boca Raton assignment may present
- Delay analysis on civic work in the city, including a Boca Raton library
- Schedule development, updates and time-impact questions on civic, commercial and residential construction
- How City of Boca Raton or Palm Beach County schedule specifications, notice rules and extension procedures frame a time request
- Defect, repair-alternative or damages questions on residential and commercial projects in Boca Raton
Schedules, field records, drawings and cost documents from the Boca Raton project are used to the extent they bear on the assigned question; gaps in the record limit the analysis. Opinions are prepared for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, the Southern District of Florida, or arbitration and mediation, and address material evidence, including information contrary to a proposed conclusion.
Services
Related technical services
- Contractor scheduling services
- Owner and developer consulting
- Expert delay analysis
- Construction defects
- Estimating
- Damages calculations
The team
The requested scope and the professionals’ relevant backgrounds affect staffing for an assignment. Public biographies describe their experience and roles.
- Daniel R. Zorrilla, President
- Brian C. Moye, Managing Director
- David Hengelbrok, Sr. Schedule Consultant
- Aaron Goodman, Construction Accountant
Daniel R. Zorrilla is Oxley’s President and testifying expert. He has worked in construction consulting and expert work since 2008, with a return to project management in 2014–2015. Dan has been with Oxley since 2015, after consulting with Trace Management from 2008. He has testified in more than 40 cases, in litigation, including federal court, and in arbitration. He has been retained as a consultant or expert in more than 100 construction matters. He is a Florida Certified General Contractor (CGC1506197), an AACE International Certified Forensic Claims Consultant, a panelist of the American Arbitration Association, and a Florida Supreme Court Certified County and Circuit Court Mediator (Florida Courts mediator lookup).
Dan earned his J.D. from Stetson University College of Law in 2011. He is a member of The Florida Bar and does not practice law. Work through Oxley is technical consulting, not legal representation or legal advice. Scheduling support comes from David Hengelbrok, P.E., PSP, and Jeremy Easen, CGC.
We act for only one party on a project, and fees do not depend on findings. Conflicts are checked before substantive work begins, and a CV and testimony history are available to counsel on request.
Dan has been retained on behalf of and adverse to owners, general contractors and subcontractors.
What a Boca Raton delay assignment covers
A Boca Raton delay assignment is often tested in the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit at the Palm Beach County Courthouse, 205 N. Dixie Hwy., West Palm Beach, which also lists a complex business litigation division and coordinates court-ordered civil mediation, or in the Southern District of Florida, West Palm Beach Division, at the Paul G. Rogers Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 701 Clematis St. Appeals from the circuit go to Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal, 110 S. Tamarind Ave., West Palm Beach; federal appeals go to the Eleventh Circuit. Many Palm Beach County contracts require mediation first or arbitration, often under the AAA Construction Industry Arbitration Rules.
Civic, commercial and residential construction in Boca Raton generates schedule, defect and damages questions. Public owners that build in the city include the City of Boca Raton and Palm Beach County; they are named to describe the market, not as Oxley clients. Consulting and expert assignments on this page include delay analysis on a Boca Raton library.
Schedule reviews while work is underway, forensic delay analysis chosen to fit the contract and the records, concurrent-delay questions, disruption and lost productivity, and time-related cost may be in scope, together with reports and testimony. More on method and scope is on the construction delay expert witnesses page.
Selected project experience
Daniel R. Zorrilla's Florida work includes projects he managed for general contractors and later consulting and expert assignments. Consulting and expert work is described by project and issue type only.
From 1999 to 2005, he worked for Suffolk Construction in its West Palm Beach office, rising from project engineer to project manager on mid-rise and high-rise residential projects in South Florida. After moving into consulting in 2008, he returned to the contractor side from 2014 to 2015 as a senior project manager for West Palm Beach-based KAST Construction on the $145 million Westin Sarasota hotel and Vue Sarasota condominium.
Projects managed.
- The Park at Riverbridge, West Palm Beach. Project Manager.
- Ventana condominium, Tampa. Senior Project Manager.
- Regatta condominiums, North Beach (Miami-Dade). Project Manager.
- Porto Bellagio condominiums, Sunny Isles Beach. Assistant Project Manager.
- Westin Sarasota hotel and Vue Sarasota condominium (Senior Project Manager for the general contractor).
Boca Raton consulting and expert assignments.
- Library, Boca Raton. Delay analysis.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Oxley handle Boca Raton construction matters?
Yes. Oxley serves Boca Raton construction matters from its Clearwater office. We travel for depositions, mediations, site visits and document reviews in Boca Raton and southern Palm Beach County.
Which courts and forums does this page cover?
The Fifteenth Judicial Circuit in Palm Beach County, the Southern District of Florida (West Palm Beach Division), Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal, and arbitration and mediation, often under the AAA Construction Industry Arbitration Rules. Federal appeals go to the Eleventh Circuit. CVs and testimony histories are available to counsel on request.
How can intake begin?
Initial contact can provide party names and a brief nonconfidential description for conflict review. Please do not send confidential, privileged or substantive case materials until Oxley has confirmed intake following conflict review. Oxley provides technical consulting, not legal representation. Contacting Oxley does not create an attorney-client relationship.
Nearby coverage
Parent county page: West Palm Beach and Palm Beach County. Nearby: the Town of Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens and Jupiter and South Florida. Statewide: all Florida areas.
To discuss a Boca Raton project or dispute, call 727-821-9190 or send a message. For conflict review, start with party names and a brief nonconfidential description.