Ken Baker

Ken Baker has more than 45 years of experience in the construction and engineering industries. A registered professional engineer and a licensed general contractor, his varied, hands-on project experience provides a strong basis for over 180 expert appointments in various delay, disruption, and quantum matters.

Ken develops expert reports and provides expert testimony in arbitration, litigation and mediation. He specializes in complex construction claims related to delay, lost productivity, acceleration, disputed contract scope and extra work, professional practice issues, construction defect matters, and claim damages. In support of his extensive expert testimony experience, he has developed graphs, charts spreadsheets, annotated schedules, and visual displays of quantitative information for use as trial exhibits and in expert presentations. He has been cross-examined at arbitration and trial on more than 23 occasions, including concurrent evidence (hot-tubbing).

Ken has worked as principal engineer, structural engineer, project manager, construction manager, and in various leadership roles in the contracting, construction management, and claims arenas. He has been involved in design-construction programs and projects across North America ranging from major infrastructure developments including rail, roadways, bridges, and dams; a wide variety of commercial, institutional, laboratory-research, residential, and retail building projects; and major power, water, waste-water, and industrial facilities.

Ken’s claims-related expertise includes the identification and evaluation of construction and real estate risk; claims concerning schedule delay and extended performance, lost productivity and disruption, and acceleration; scope, documentation, and contract performance requirements; general contractor performance issues; construction manager professional practice issues; and construction defect matters. He has prepared and evaluated as-planned and as-built schedules, contemporaneous and retrospective delay analyses, productivity impact and acceleration analyses, issue merit and responsibility analyses, construction defect lists and repair cost estimates, and cost and damages claims. Ken also provides services to clients in the areas of project advisory risk assessments, claims avoidance and mitigation; distressed real estate asset investigations; mechanics lien claim analysis, priority and valuation; construction management, and general contracting services during pre-construction, design, construction and post-construction.

Ken Baker has written articles and delivered numerous seminars regarding his specialist subjects. Clients agree that Ken is a “consummate professional” and that his expertise has been “a key component in being able to reach a negotiated settlement”. Others agree that he “quickly grasped the issues… successfully bridged the gap between the parties” and that he is skilled in “meticulously gathering data and researching… works without bias and in the most neutral manner possible”.