The Built Environment is Complex.
Your Decisions Shouldn’t Be.
For decades, our principals have investigated high-stakes building failures. This gives us a unique ‘hindsight is 20/20’ perspective, allowing us to pinpoint the root cause of an active building problem or uncover the hidden risks in your future project before they convert into multimillion-dollar liabilities.
Applied Forensics:
Decades of Forensic Experience Applied Across the Built Environment
Whether you are managing a property portfolio, protecting a private residence, or engaged in a dispute, our decades of forensic experience give you a decisive advantage. We deliver objective, third-party insight that highlights hidden technical risks, verifies standards of care, and keeps your project, budget, and legal strategy on track.
our story:
Driven by Objective Clarity
AEC Forensics Group was established on a simple principle: the most valuable asset in the built environment is unvarnished, objective technical insight.
Complex building failures, active construction disputes, and statutory compliance challenges are rarely caused by a lack of raw data. They happen because decision-makers lack access to independent expert insight that connects physical symptoms to root-cause liability before costs and exposure spiral out of control.
We do not sell generic inspection checklists or administrative overhead. We deliver battle-tested clarity gained from deconstructing thousands of building failures, evaluating standard-of-care failures, and developing proactive risk management strategies that keep issues from recurring.
A 360-Degree Perspective Across the Entire Building Lifecycle
Most technical consultants view a project through a single, narrow lens. Few firms possess insight earned from representing and advising parties across every role in the building industry: owners, developers, asset managers, contractors, and design professionals.
With experience evaluating standard of care across virtually every role, component or assembly in the built environment and at every lifecycle stage, our principal advisors bring a comprehensive perspective to every matter. We rapidly identify hidden design defects, unvetted field substitutions, and opposing expert vulnerabilities that single-lens vendors routinely miss.
Our Core Capabilities
Forensic Investigation
Root-cause diagnostic evaluations for active water intrusion, structural distress, and building envelope failures, delivered through phased, predictable scopes that establish ground truth without open-ended billing. (Learn More…)
Risk Management
Applied forensics and independent technical oversight for active construction projects, major renovations, and statutory balcony/EEE compliance (SB-721/SB-326) to catch high-risk details before they turn into costly liabilities. (Learn More…)
Litigation Support
Privileged non-designated consulting, file curation, and strategic advice for legal teams navigating complex construction claims, with testifying expert designation available directly when required. (Learn More…)
We cut through technical ambiguity to deliver the unvarnished facts you need to make high-stakes decisions and act decisively.
Our Leadership:
Expert Advisors for Complex Challenges involving the built environment
Brian L. Hill
CEO & Principal Advisor
Brian L. Hill represents the strategic and operational core of AEC Forensics Group. Operating as a protected, non-designated consultant, Brian works within the privileged safe harbor of the advisory team.
His experience spans the full lifecycle of the built environment, and has touched nearly every trade and specialty within it. That breadth grounds his work deconstructing complex project files, diagnosing technical exposure early, and coordinating multi-disciplinary teams to keep technical analysis aligned with client strategy.
Steve Hill
Principal Advisor & Testifying Expert
With over 50 years of active experience in the construction industry, Steve Hill brings profound historical depth and objective authority to the firm. He holds over 450 designations specifically as an expert on general contractor standard of care, repair methodologies, and cost estimating.
Steve serves as a testifying expert, non-testifying consultant, and mentor across specialized engineering disciplines, dedicated to delivering the unvarnished technical facts. (Steve Hill Construction Consulting is fully integrated into the AEC Forensics Group infrastructure).
Establish Strategic Technical Clarity
Put deep forensic insight and proactive risk management experience to work on your portfolio, private property, or active dispute.