Mr. David V. Donovan Jr., P.E., CFEI, provides forensic and consulting engineering and expert witness litigation services. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering degree from Lafayette College and Professional Engineering licensure from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, followed by eight additional states or districts. Mr. Donovan conducts residential, commercial, and industrial civil/structural examination of soils, foundations, walls, flooring, structural supports, roofs, interior and exterior finishes, means of access, building envelope, utilities (i.e., storm sewer, sanitary sewer, potable water, natural gas), highways, bridges, dams, wastewater treatment plants, horizontal directional drilling (HDD), and site features.  In addition, he examines and evaluates public and private property roadway features, in conjunction with vehicular accident cases. Further, Mr. Donovan performs root cause analysis, scope of damage assessment, and value estimation, relative to construction defects, site conditions, environmental impacts, repair and maintenance, and/or property damage, due to forces and mechanisms associated with wind, floods, fire, freeze, hailstorms, moisture, groundwater, settlement, subsidence, earthquakes, hurricanes, and tornados. Furthermore, he has provided expert witness litigation testimony in cases involving premises liability (i.e., trip or slip and fall), construction defects, hurricanes, fire origin and cause, utilities, building envelope, and structural damage.

Prior to joining Haag, Mr. Donovan was involved in the design, consultation, analysis, and inspection of commercial, residential, and industrial land development projects, which included geotechnical and environmental engineering services. He worked to ensure code compliance with municipal, county, state, and federal governing and regulatory agencies, relative to stormwater management, sanitary sewer, domestic water, utility, erosion and sedimentation controls, bridge modeling, earthwork, and floodplain studies. In addition, Mr. Donovan provided design, project, and construction management services, relative to civil engineering drawing layouts, specifications, and details, and unforeseen site conditions, such as sinkholes, sediment-laden water, grading and earthwork dilemmas, and utility conflicts.