Expert Testimony
A member of the governing bodies of both the American Concrete Institute and the American Shotcrete Association, Bill Drakeley serves as an ACI/ASA representative and/or as an independent expert, providing expert testimony on the following matters:
General Shotcrete
- Applications
- Failures
- Bonding issues
- Fall outs
- Performance and durability
- Underground
- Infrastructure
Concrete pools and other water-retaining structures
- Concrete
- Shotcrete/"gunite" (dry or wet mix process)
- Plumbing hydraulic installations
- Pool cracking
- Pool settling
- Delaminations of final coatings (e.g. tile, plaster, pebble etc.)
- Compressive value issues
- Issues involving lack of watertightness
- General pool construction practices
- Decking settlement and/or cracking