Tony has more than 30 years experience in the design, construction, and safety of commercial, institutional, and residential buildings. He investigates issues involving building performance, code compliance, construction documents, premises liability, and professional liability.
Tony has specialized expertise in the design of stadiums, concert halls and other large venues; and building preservation/renovation. He evaluates applicable codes, egress and walkway safety, sight line, and hazard identification. His preservation and renovation experience includes resolution of code disputes and evaluating unforeseen conditions in renovation including cost and change order issues.
Tony is a registered architect in Pennsylvania and is certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- Door Closer - Expert Investigates Injury at Retailer
A woman was struck by a door while entering a national retail chain store. The entrance consisted of a pair of tall, heavy doors with pivot hinges and door closers. The door slammed into the woman before she had completely passed through the entrance and knocked her into a nearby merchandise display. She fell and sustained serious injuries, including broken bones. Robson Forensic architect/premises safety expert, William E. J. Martin, AIA, NCARB, was retained to determine if improper maintenance of the entrance caused the door to operate outside of established industry standards and caused the victim’s injuries.
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- Architectural Professional Liability - Expert Opines on Standards of Care
A patron at a nightclub climbed up on top of a 3 foot high speaker box platform and danced off the edge. Many people were sued. The club was a tenant at a Trade Center Development. We were engaged after it was claimed that the developer's architect, who reviewed the tenant drawings for the club, should have required guard rails around the top of the platform.
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- Architectural & HVAC Professional Liability - Expert Investigates Cause of Mold
A couple hired a construction contractor and his newly-licensed architect son to design and build a high-end modern house. The design included large expanses of glass wall panels. The massive heating system (four air handlers and a boiler) was provided as a design/build effort by an HVAC subcontractor. Even so, during a relatively mild heating season the owners were unable to maintain comfort near the windows. In fact, so much water ran off the inside of the glass that it saturated adjacent surfaces and caused mold.
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- Door Hardware - Expert Investigates Hand Entrapment
A man was exiting his apartment when his hand became entrapped in the security hardware on the interior door, and his hand was severely injured. His hand was caught between the interlocking pieces of a latch guard, one mounted on the door and the other on the frame.
A Robson Forensic architect was retained to investigate the configuration of the hardware and determine if it was dangerous and met the standard of care for safe door hardware configuration.
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- Glass Sliding Door - Expert Investigates Laceration
A young girl was visiting the apartment of her uncle and cousins when she leaned against the glass of a sliding door that led to the exterior patio. The glass broke into large shards that fell onto her. She was severely lacerated. The glass was original to the door, which was installed prior to the enactment of safety glazing requirements in building and property maintenance codes.
A Robson Forensic architect was retained to determine the requirements for glazing in the subject door, and if the apartment complex owner’s actions were reasonable in not replacing or protecting the glass.
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- Parking Lot Design - Expert Investigates Pedestrian Death
A woman was walking toward a busy donut shop in a parking lot, when she was struck and killed by a vehicle driven by a person who had visited the same location every day for more than a year and was very familiar with the layout of the parking lot.
A Robson Forensic architect investigated the design and maintenance of the lot and determined that the parking lot lacked reasonable pedestrian and vehicle controls. The parking lot created dangerous traffic flows that created conflicts of vehicles with pedestrians.
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- Powered Door - Expert Investigates Pedestrian Knockdown
A woman was entering a medical office building when she was knocked down by the automatic sliding door at the main entrance to the building. The door unexpectedly closed even though she was in the path of its detector eyes. A Robson Forensic architect was retained to determine if the maintenance of the door caused the door to malfunction and injure the woman as she attempted to enter.
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- Restaurant Entrance - Expert Investigates Pedestrian Fall
A woman was exiting a restaurant under a small canopy above the doors when she unexpectedly stepped across a single riser in the raised ‘porch’. The tile pavement continued across the step and into the restaurant, and she didn’t see the change in elevation as she was walking toward her parked car. The configuration of the entrance had been recently changed, and the redesign involved the services of an architect.
A Robson Forensic architect was retained to determine if the restaurant, who maintained the entrance, and the architect, who oversaw construction of the new entrance, created a dangerous condition that caused the woman’s injuries.
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