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The Construction Vibration Damage Guide for Homeowners

The Construction Vibration Damage Guide Professional Edition

John M. Zeigler, Ph.D.Silcon-Based Polymer Science A Comprehensive Resource, John M. Zeigler, Ph.D. and F. G. Fearon, Ph.D., eds.Dr. John M. Zeigler has an earned Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Illinois, a highly-ranked chemistry graduate program, and is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He is co-editor and co-author of an ACS Advances in Chemistry reference volume on silicon-based polymers, Silicon-Based Polymer Science - A Comprehensive Resource, shown at right. He has been a long-time member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers. As a researcher at a U.S. national laboratory, Dr. Zeigler was a co-recipient of an international IR-100 (R&D-100) award for the development of polysilane self-developing photoresists; he is also the inventor or co-inventor on over 30 U.S. and foreign patents and has over 35 registered copyrights. He has published over 70 papers in the scientific literature and been an invited speaker at scientific meetings and universities over 100 times, as well as serving as an organizer or co-organizer of several international scientific meetings.
 
Dr. Zeigler developed considerable scientific and litigation expertise in construction vibration damage, arising from extensive damage done to his home and many others during a road reconstruction project. He was the primary scientific consultant throughout that case. The consulting included damage and scientific documentation, testimony, expert and attorney scientific preparation, vibration monitoring data analysis, and case assembly all the way through trial. Although not a retelling of his case, the Construction Vibration Damage Guide, in both the over 100 page free Homeowners version and the over 300 page comprehensive Professional Edition, is founded, in part, on what he learned in more than thirteen years of continuous work in the field. Dr. Zeigler has served many times as both as a  consultant and litigation expert on vibration damage cases in the U.S. and abroad.
 
In addition to writing and running Vibrationdamage.com, he also maintains a Vibrationdamage.com Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/vibrationdamage/. There, visitors can find vibration damage content not available on Vibrationdamage.com or in the downloadable free CVDG PDF, as well as leave their own comments and questions.
 
As a scientific consultant, he has provided expertise on polymeric materials and applications to both Fortune 500 and smaller companies. He has served as an expert scientific witness for nearly 20 years, testifying in deposition, hearings and trial, in various aspects of vibration effects on buildings and medical device materials, manufacturing, and quality control. He is also a scientific consultant in those and related areas. A curriculum vitae, listing publications, invited presentations, patents, testimony and other relevant materials is available. A separate business website, https://silchemy.com, has more information on his background and work.

Dr. Zeigler and his wife live in the Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA metro area. He is involved in a number of public service activities.

Vibration-Related Consulting Services

We can:

  • Help you understand vibration monitoring, both how it should be done and what results from it really mean, either in the context of vibration damage claims or in helping to avoid them.
  • Independently analyze vibration data sets (see partial example at right), either from seismometers or mobile device accelerometers, and give you an unbiased view of what they really show and whether the studies were carried out properly
  • Serve as a scientific consultant and peer reviewer of reports for vibration monitoring firms
  • Help clients identify and understand appropriate vibration standards
  • Provide instruction on the science of vibration damage for attorneys, construction firms, governmental entities and others with an interest in or responsibility for construction projects.
  • Serve as an expert witness in vibration damage cases
  • Assist attorneys in the technical aspects of vibration damage cases
  • Help attorneys in such cases prepare scientifically for deposition of opposing expert witnesses
  • Paid Consulting

    Our current professional consulting rates are $400 (USD) per hour of billed work, with a required retainer of $4000, which covers initial work. Reasonable and customary travel expenses are also billed to the client for any necessary travel. We do not bill for the time spent in travel. Work outside the state of New Mexico is billed at a flat rate of $4000 (USD)/day. Full terms are shown in our consulting agreement. The terms in the agreement are the governing ones. We do not currently perform vibration monitoring at construction sites, though we can help in establishing a scientifically defensible monitoring program.

    Let's Talk!

    You can contact Dr. Zeigler through our Contact Us page or by e-mail to drzeigler@vibrationdamage.com. Initial consultations are free and without obligation for either party. The Construction Vibration Damage Guide for Homeowners (CVDG) and the more technical and much more extensive CVDG Professional Edition provide a good introduction to our capabilities and knowledge. Our vibration damage-related sites are all standalone extensions of our main company site at https://silchemy.com. You can find out more about the broader range of Dr. Zeigler's scientific consulting there, as well as learn about his research interests and contributions.


    See if We Can Help You!

    If you're interested in exploring whether we can help in your construction vibration damage issues, as a homeowner, an attorney or as a responsible contractor, contact us now. Initial consultations are free and confidential, without obligation. You can reach us by e-mail to drzeigler@vibrationdamage.com, visit our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/vibrationdamage/, or go to Dr. Zeigler's company site at https://silchemy.com.
     

    This is a chapter from the Construction Vibration Damage Guide for Homeowners (CVDG), a 100+ page free book with over 300 color photos, diagrams and other illustrations. It is available at https://vibrationdamage.com as a series of web pages or in full, web navigation and ad-free, as a downloadable PDF e-book, with additional content not available on the web. The free version of the CVDG is licensed to homeowners and others for personal, at-home use only. A Professional Edition (CVDG Pro), licensed for business use and with over three times as much content, can be ordered from our Order the CVDG Pro page, usually with same-day delivery. You can comment about this page or ask questions of the author, Dr. John M. Zeigler, by using our Visitor Comment form. If you would like to discuss vibration damage issues and view additional content not found in the CVDG, Join us on Facebook. Please Like us while you're there.

     

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