Matthew J. Burkart, P.E.

As President of AEGIS Corp., Matthew Burkart has performed engineering evaluation and developed guide procedures for onsite monitoring of numerous heavy lifts and transportations; performed investigations of numerous crane and rigging accidents involving both injury and property damage on behalf of the Occupational Safety and

Health Administration, contractors, owners and major insurance carriers; provided training programs for insurance companies’ contractors and OSHA inspectors on topics involving construction safety and safety regulations; and testified as an expert witness in numerous cases involving construction accidents, both property damage and personal injury. He holds a Graduate Civil-Structural Engineer BSCE from Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, and a Masters Degree in Safety Science from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Harlan W. Fair, P.E.

As President of H. Fair Associates, Inc. Harlan Fair brings over thirty years of construction management and construction safety expertise to the services he provides in the areas of Forensic Engineering, Engineering Evaluations, Safety Engineering, Project and Construction Management Services, and Project Development.  As Chair of the Construction Institute of ASCE’s Crane Safety Committee, he is overseeing the creation of a revised and expanded second edition of ASCE Manual 93, Crane Safety on Construction Sites, which was originally published in 1998.  Harlan holds an A.B. in Engineering and an M.S. in Civil Engineering from Dartmouth College.

William R. Nash, P.E.

William Nash has spent thirty-five years in the construction industry developing unique combination of leadership skills.  He started in field engineering and individual project management and took on progressively higher levels of responsibility to corporate responsibility; as a Project Director, managing multiple concurrent projects and divisional responsibility. In his current position with McIndustrial, he provides assistance to project site staff with technical issues, including safety, construction engineering quality for cement silos, WWJP, refinery, power plant, office building, central control room, concrete, post tensioning, precast erection, grouting, hoisting, rigging, steel erection, and inspection testing plans (ITPs); as well as field inspection, including safety and quality; and recruiting and training new hires and developing the company’s Industrial quality management program (QMP). He holds a B.S. in Mining Engineering and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri.