Nik Newgard

Background

Mr. Nik Newgard is a Building Consultant with Rimkus. As a former contractor, he has diverse experience in residential and commercial construction, estimating, cost estimating, scheduling, sub-contractor protocols, restoration, and mitigation practices, as well as building code compliance, project management, construction documentation, contract management, change orders, and construction disputes/resolutions.

Mr. Newgard’s areas of expertise include single- and multi-family residences, pre-cost valuation and estimation, construction management, cost analysis and evaluation, and project close-out of new residential and commercial projects, as well as renovation of existing residential and commercial buildings, code upgrade, betterment evaluations, and as-built valuations. He has evaluated structures for deficiencies in design, building code violations, construction techniques, contractor standard of care, and materials/installation deficiencies.

Mr. Newgard has served as a residential and commercial claim adjuster, cost of repair estimator, evaluator of scope of repair, and building consultant while working with homeowners, contractors, and insurance adjusters. He is proficient with site inspections/investigations, damage assessment, restoration scoping, and catastrophe events such as floods, fires, tornados, and hurricanes, and is proficient in multiple estimating platforms including Xactimate and Symbility estimating software.

As a Building Consultant with Rimkus, he directs his expertise toward emergency mitigation protocol/evaluation; property damage investigation; storm and catastrophe event damage assessment, including fire damage, hail damage, wind damage, water intrusion, and water and smoke damage; cost estimating; and repair protocol/evaluation and analysis.  He provides construction observation services as well as cost review analysis and invoice validation.