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Clearwater Construction Delay Expert and Schedule Consultant

Oxley is based in Clearwater, at 13830 58th St N, Suite 403, about 10 miles by road from the downtown Clearwater courthouse. Daniel R. Zorrilla, J.D., BSBC, CGC, CFCC, leads the work and testifies.

Clearwater is Oxley's home office. Counsel and project teams can meet with us at 13830 58th St N, Suite 403, Clearwater, FL 33760, walk a site the same afternoon, or bring native schedule files and daily reports to review together. On a Clearwater matter, Dan Zorrilla leads the analysis as testifying expert, working with the schedulers who support Dan's analysis.

Our work starts with the schedule and the record. During a project, that means reviewing a baseline or update before a time problem becomes a claim. After a dispute starts, it means a forensic delay analysis that explains which events moved completion, by how much, and on what evidence.

Owners and developers: fixed-fee schedule reviews while the project is running.

Contractors: time questions on a live project are easier to analyze while the records are current. The analysis addresses what the schedule and records show.

Clearwater's courts

Clearwater is the county seat of Pinellas County; Pinellas and Pasco counties form Florida's Sixth Judicial Circuit.

State court: Clearwater Courthouse, 315 Court St., circuit and county civil matters and the circuit's Clearwater civil mediation office, about 10 miles by road from our office.

South county: St. Petersburg Judicial Building, 545 1st Ave. N., about 12.5 miles by road.

Federal court: Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division, Sam M. Gibbons U.S. Courthouse, Tampa.

Appeals and arbitration: state appeals go to the Second District Court of Appeal, headquartered in St. Petersburg; arbitration, often under the AAA Construction Industry Arbitration Rules, is held where the parties and tribunal set it.

Clearwater project types that end up in schedule disputes

Much of Clearwater's construction is coastal. Beach-area hotels and condominiums, marina and seawall work, parking structures and renovations of occupied buildings all face tight sites, limited laydown, seasonal tourism and weather. After Hurricanes Helene and Milton struck the Tampa Bay area in 2024, repair and rebuilding work added another layer: insurance-funded scopes, damaged-building investigations and contractors working on many projects at once.

Those conditions raise specific schedule questions. Was a weather or storm day excusable under the contract? Did restricted access or phased occupancy change the planned sequence? Did a stop-and-start repair scope cost time on the critical path, or only efficiency? Each question needs the contract terms, the schedule versions and the daily record read together.

Public owners in and around Clearwater include the City of Clearwater, Pinellas County (which owns St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport), Pinellas County Schools, the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority and FDOT District Seven. They are named to describe the market, not as Oxley clients.

Services for Clearwater owners, contractors and counsel

During a live project, Oxley works as a construction schedule consultant: preparing or reviewing a CPM baseline, updates and recovery schedules so the record will support a later time request. See construction scheduling services.

  • Baseline and update review. Logic, constraints, calendars and actual dates checked so the schedule can carry a time request later. See baseline schedule analysis and schedule updates.
  • Time impact analysis and extension requests. A fragnet modeled into the current update to measure an event's effect on completion, prepared or reviewed. See extension of time requests.
  • Forensic delay analysis. Windows, as-planned versus as-built, or as-built reconstruction from photographs and daily reports when updates are missing.
  • Concurrent delay. Stating, with assumptions, whether delays were concurrent on the critical path. How concurrent delay is treated depends on the contract and applicable law, which are for counsel and the tribunal.
  • Storm repair schedule and duration analysis. How long a repair of a storm-damaged building should reasonably take, and what drove the time it did take. See first-party property insurance disputes.
  • Expert testimony and mediation support. Reports, depositions, hearings and trial, and technical help at mediation.

What to bring to a first meeting

A first review goes faster when the schedule record arrives in its original form. Useful items include:

  • The baseline and every update in native format (for example, Primavera P6 .xer files), not only PDFs
  • Schedule narratives and the owner's or architect's review comments on each submission
  • The contract, general and supplementary conditions, and the schedule specification
  • Daily reports, photographs, inspection records and meeting minutes
  • Change orders, RFIs, notices of delay and time extension requests, with the responses
  • Pay applications, which often show progress the schedule updates do not

Please wait to send confidential materials until conflicts are cleared and the engagement is confirmed.

Selected project experience

Daniel R. Zorrilla's Florida work includes projects he managed for general contractors and later consulting and expert assignments. Consulting and expert work is described by project and issue type only.

From 2005 to 2008, he was a senior project manager in the Tampa office of Hardin Construction (acquired by DPR Construction in 2013), managing construction of a $28 million condominium in Tampa and a $124 million resort in Puerto Rico.

Projects managed.

  • Ventana condominium, Tampa. Senior Project Manager.
  • Regatta condominiums, North Beach (Miami-Dade). Project Manager.
  • The Park at Riverbridge, West Palm Beach. Project Manager.
  • Westin Sarasota hotel and Vue Sarasota condominium (Senior Project Manager for the general contractor).
  • Porto Bellagio condominiums, Sunny Isles Beach. Assistant Project Manager.

Pinellas County consulting and expert assignments.

  • Airport landside improvements and expansion, Tampa Bay area. Delay and disruption.
  • Two bridges. Delay and completion cost.
  • Road and intersection reconstruction. Delay.

The testifying expert

Daniel R. Zorrilla, J.D., BSBC, CGC, CFCC, leads the work and testifies. He has worked in construction consulting and expert work since 2008, with a return to project management in 2014–2015, and has testified in more than 40 cases. He has been retained as a consultant or expert in more than 100 construction matters. He is a Florida Supreme Court Certified County and Circuit Court Mediator (Florida Courts mediator lookup). He is a member of The Florida Bar and does not practice law.

We act for only one party on a project, and fees do not depend on findings. Dan's full profile →

Across Tampa Bay

For county-wide matters, see Pinellas County and Pasco County. South county: St. Petersburg. Across the bay: Tampa and Hillsborough County. Method detail is on the construction delay expert witness page. CPM scheduling during a project is covered on the construction schedule consultant page.

Call 727-821-9190 or send a message. Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.