Author Biography: David Chitester is a licensed P.E. in Michigan and Florida has over 35 years of experience. He graduated with a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 1974. He also has an M.B.A that he received from Northern Michigan University in 1978. Mr. Chitester’s expertise has been applied to industrial process plants, power generating facilities, buildings, wastewater treatment facilities, pipelines, and roadway design and construction. He has performed cost and schedule analyses on projects totaling more than $10 billion in construction costs.
Mr. Chitester is recognized nationally as an expert in Claims Analysis and Dispute Resolution, CPM Scheduling, Project Management, and Cost Engineering. He began his career with Bechtel Power and Blount Brothers where he gained field construction and scheduling experience on projects ranging from $150 Million to $500 Million. For more than 28 years, he has provided services essential to maintaining control of project costs and schedules to a balanced mix of public and private sector clients.
Mr. Chitester presents seminars and in-house training on topics as productivity analysis, delay analysis, CPM scheduling, and construction claims, and has served as a course instructor for the Associated General Contractors’ Supervisor Training Program. More than five thousand licensed professionals from across the country have attended lectures and presentations by Mr. Chitester