For the 40th time I have been asked to be part in arbitration as the attorney’s Expert Witness. This arbitration will span 5 days and take place outside of California. The issues in a flooring failure are esoteric and ferreting out the cause of such a failure requires an insight that is beyond the scope…
Homeowners say stone tiles are cracking because the Flooring Contractor did not use an Anti-Fracture Membrane. We looked at 3000 pages of discovery. We cored the concrete and test it. We found that the concrete slabs had not been properly installed. Upon investigating all of the components of the floor materials, we found that…
Patent Infringement: Interior Specifications was asked to interpret 2 sets of written instructions and opine as to the use of each methodology to install flooring. We created these diagrams for presentation to the Federal Court…
Candy Spelling thought this seam was wrong, and asked Kenneth Newson to help the installer fix it. He showed them how to fix it…
In an outlet mall, water was coming through the epoxy coated concrete floor. Interior Specifications was asked to find the source, assess responsibility and design the fix.
In 1995 Kenneth D. Newson was contacted by the Burbank Pasadena Airport Authority, which requested that he develop a carpet specification. He led them to this carpet…
In 1994 Kenneth D. Newson was contacted by the Architects for California State University at Northridge. The Earthquake had decimated their dormitories. Could he please write a specification to replace the carpet, the sheet vinyl, and remediate 500,000 square feet of lightweight concrete. He did.
I just finished sitting in and testifying in a 4 day Arbitration. As a Forensic Scientist in Floor Failures, I was asked how I can be a Scientist if I don’t have a degree in science. I explained that Forensic Science is the accumulation of evidence, both written and tested for in your field if…
I just finished sitting in and testifying in a 4 day Arbitration. As a Forensic Scientist I was asked how I can be a Scientist if I don’t have a degree in science. I explained that Forensic Science is the accumulation of evidence, both written a tested for in your field if expertise, which is…
As a Flooring Forensic Scientist I use the “Scientific Method” to evaluate floor failures. I test materials in a laboratory or on site, as a floor expert to that California State Contractors License Board I judge the quality of installation. As a floor covering contractor and member of the National Wood Flooring Association, the Marble…