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