Roux Launches Forensic Engineering Practice for Building Damage & Construction Defects

ISLANDIA, NY, Apr 07 (MARKET WIRE) --
Ewire -- Roux Associates Inc., an ENR 200 environmental consulting and
management firm, is pleased to announce that it has launched a forensic
engineering practice for building damage & construction defects.

James Koester, P.E., who joined the firm in March 2009 as a Principal
Engineer, will head up the practice.

Koester will be based at the company's office in Burlington, MA.

Roux Associates has provided environmental claims and litigation expert
witness and support services to its clients for the past 20 years.

"Our clients requested that we provide expertise in building damage and
construction defects," said Paul H. Roux, Chairman. "With the addition of
James Koester to our team, we will soon become an industry leader in
providing these services."

Koester has provided engineering services for litigation support and
building damage claims for eleven years.

Koester was an expert witness and project manager in over one thousand
forensic investigations involving commercial, industrial, and residential
facilities. He helped determine the scope of damage and cost repair
estimates for a 24-story landmark building damaged in the 9/11 terrorist
attacks. He was also involved in the investigation of a 30 building
hospital complex damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

Koester has nearly 30 years of construction and engineering project
management experience. He performed numerous structural evaluations to
determine scopes of damage due to fires and explosions.

Koester, a licensed professional engineer, is a graduate of Lehigh
University.

For information about Roux's expertise in building and construction
claims, expert witness, and litigation support services, please contact
James Koester at (781) 270-6600 or at jkoester@rouxinc.com.

Roux Associates specializes in integrated sustainability solutions, site
investigations, remediation, hazardous waste management, Brownfield
redevelopment, air quality and facility engineering services, litigation
support, compliance services, and indoor air quality. For more information
about Roux Associates, please call Steve Sadiker at 1-800-322-ROUX.

Media Contact:
Al Lewis
Environmental Marketing & Communications Inc.
(212) 496-1940

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