Professor Hanry M. Koffman, P.E.

Principal Engineer & Principal Contruction Manager
Managing Member

Henry M. Koffman, PE is a Professor of Engineering Practice and the Director of the Construction Engineering and Management Program at the University of Southern California (USC) in the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Viterbi School of Engineering. He received a Masters of Science in Civil Engineering degree (MSCE) from Stanford University and a Bachelors of Science in Civil Engineering degree (BSCE) from the University of Southern California. He is a licensed professional engineer (C16560) in the State of California since 1966, as well as having held a General Contractor license in the State of California. During his professional career he have performed such services as structural inspections, retrofit design, construction estimates, construction contracts and construction management consulting; moreover, he has extensive construction experience for 30 years in the construction industry as a field engineer and construction manager on complex construction projects. He has served as an expert witness for the last 19 years in all types of construction litigation cases. For the last 19 years, he have created and taught such courses as Construction Engineering, Estimating, Methods and Equipment, Labor Management, Design of Structural Systems, Strategic Planning in Construction Engineering and Project Cost Estimating, Controlling, Planning and Scheduling. In addition, he currently serves on the National Board of Directors for the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) and is a past President of the Los Angeles Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Furthermore, he have served on the Construction Panel of Arbitrators of the American Association of Arbitrators (AAA) since 1993.

Professor Koffman is very familiar with the customs, practices, and usages concerning contract administration among public agencies throughout California and, in particular, Southern California. This includes knowledge as to the manner by which public entities administer change-orders on projects. He has obtained this knowledge by extensively networking with public entity owners and public works contractors in both official and unofficial capacities and by serving as an expert witness and arbitrator. It has been necessary to intimately know these practices as they are at the heart of the construction management techniques taught in his program at USC.