Subsidence Expert Witnesses

Saint Johns, Florida

Geotechnical Engineering, Geology - construction, construction engineering, engineer, foundations, sinkholes, piles, shoring, earthquake, ground, slope, slide, aggregate piers, stone columns, rigid inclusions, vibrations, subsidence, ground improvement, karst, liquefaction, differential

Dr. Ed Garbin, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE President & Principal Engineer – Garbin GeoStructural Group, LLC When technical clarity and real-world experience are critical to your legal matter, turn to Dr. Ed Garbin, a nationally recognized authority in geostructural and construction engineering. With more than 30 years of combined construction and engineering experience, Dr. Garbin brings a rare dual perspective to the expert witness role. He began his career on construction crews before earning his Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering and PE licensure in 2003. He is now licensed in 40 states and Board Certified in Geotechnical Engineering (D.GE) by the ASCE Geo-Institute's Academy of Geo-Professionals. His expertise spans commercial, industrial, and heavy-civil construction, including: Shallow and Deep foundations Foundation load and integrity testing Ground improvement (aggregate piers, grouting, soil mixing, rigid inclusions) Earth retention and support of excavation (soldier piles, sheet ...

Carrollton, Texas

Civil Engineering, Engineering - Wave modeling, subsidence, scour, vessel wakes and propeller wash, Environmental fluid mechanics, Fluid-sediment-structure interactions, Coastal processes, Field measurements, Hydraulic engineering, Coastal protection, Hydrology, Sedimentation, Coastal Erosion

Jens Figlus is a coastal engineering expert with 12 years of experience. He works with Bryant on expert witness cases and projects related to sediment erosion, coastal flooding, water waves, fluid-soil-structure interactions, and issues related to ship-induced hydrodynamics, such as vessel wakes and propeller wash. His background is in applied coastal research and engineering, hydraulic engineering, and environmental fluid mechanics. Dr. Figlus is an Associate Professor in the Ocean Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. He heads the Coastal Engineering Laboratory (CEL) on A&M’s Galveston Campus and is a distinguished partner with the A&M Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas (IDRT). His expertise includes field and laboratory measurements (piezo-electric, acoustic Doppler, sediment tracer, optical backscatter, laser anemometry, remote sensing) as well as process-based numerical modeling (CShore, XBeach, Delft3D, Funwave) related to nearshore and estuarine hydrodynamic...