Assessment & Expert Witness
Failure investigation and expert reports
Establishing what happened and why – from root cause through repair scope, cost and downtime.
Does this match your situation?
What happened – and what follows from it.
Where damage, deviations or technical claims have to be assessed, OSK-Consult turns complex circumstances into a sound and understandable judgement.
- Is a claimed repair scope technically plausible?
- Which damage can be attributed to a particular event?
- Which costs and downtimes are plausible?
Scope of services
What OSK-Consult takes on.
The individual elements are agreed to suit the question at hand.
- Technical expert reports and expert opinions
- Root cause and plausibility analysis
- Review of third-party reports and technical claims
- Assessment of repair scope, repair cost and consequential damage
- Assessment of repair and workshop times, downtime and loss of use
- Technical causes and contributing factors in the course of events
- Evidence preservation, documentation and attendance at site inspections
- Technical support for companies, insurers, lawyers and courts
Working together
From the question to the findings.
Agree the question
Establish the question, the available documents and any need to secure evidence.
Carry out the work
Examine the evidence and assess root cause, repair scope or downtime losses within the agreed scope.
Explain the findings
Document the results and explain how they were reached.
The focus is on assessing the facts. Whether a technical solution should then be developed is agreed separately.
Technical context
Your contact
Hands-on railway experience and work on national and international projects form the background to the technical judgement.
Career and networkThe first step
Tell us what you are dealing with.
Details of the event, any photographs and documents you hold, and the questions to be answered all help. If evidence needs securing quickly, please call.