The construction industry is full of challenges. Highly competitive and burdened with risk, it faces new demands from rapidly changing technologies and increasingly large and complex projects. The right consulting firm can be crucial in alleviating construction-related problems, since it can provide knowledge and expertise not available in-house. As a third party not financially or emotionally involved with the project, the qualified consultant can offer an objective analysis of problems and unbiased recommendations for their resolution. Such objectivity is particularly crucial to the settlement of claims disputes.