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Independent Analysis
About Paul GastonAbout Paul GastonAbout Paul Gaston

A Builder's View of Construction Defects

Paul Gaston is a licensed City of Chicago general contractor and union journeyman carpenter with Carpenters Local 10 since 1989. He gives construction defect, workmanship, standard of care and building code opinions to attorneys, insurers, owners and contractors across Chicago, Cook County and Chicagoland, drawing on more than three decades of hands-on commercial and municipal work.

  • Licensed Contractor
  • Journeyman Carpenter
  • Code Anchored
  • Field Tested

Opinions stay inside licensed contracting and carpentry. Structural adequacy, design negligence and engineering calculations are referred to a licensed professional.

  • Workmanship
  • Standard of Care
  • Building Codes
  • ADA Access

Thirty years of commercial, municipal, healthcare and retail construction, including general foreman at O'Hare International Airport for the City of Chicago Department of Aviation.

  • O'Hare Renovation
  • Local 10 Since 1989
  • Chicago Licensed
  • Cook County Focus
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What a Defect Review Covers

Record review, site inspection, code and standard analysis, repair scope and cost, written reports, rebuttal and testimony. Each engagement is scoped in writing before any work begins.
  • Contract documents, drawings and specifications
  • As-built condition survey and measurement
  • Governing building code and standards
  • Manufacturer installation instructions
  • Moisture readings and envelope detailing
  • Repair scope and cost of repair
Paul Gaston, Chicago construction defect expert witness
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Testimony Grounded in Field Work

Three decades of licensed contracting and carpentry stand behind every opinion, explained in plain language a judge and jury can follow.
Construction professional reviewing blueprints on a job site

Questions Attorneys Ask

Licensed City of Chicago general contractor and union journeyman carpenter with Carpenters Local 10 since 1989, with more than thirty years of commercial, municipal, healthcare and retail construction.
No. Paul is a builder. Structural adequacy and engineering design belong to a licensed professional engineer and are referred out.
General foreman for the City of Chicago Department of Aviation, running large-scale renovation, maintenance, carpentry, flooring and finish work in an operating airport.
Retaining counsel, insurers, owners, contractors, associations and property managers involved in construction defect matters.
The focus is Chicago and Cook County, with work elsewhere in Illinois including Will County, and out-of-state retentions where appropriate.
By tying every opinion to his licence, his direct experience and an identified code, standard or manufacturer instruction, and by avoiding novel methodology.