meet Osama “sam” salah

Osama “Sam” Salah

FE, pmi-sp, PMP

SENIOR CONSULTANT

Mr. Osama Salah is an experienced construction claims analyst and scheduler, with over seven years of experience in the construction industry. He has performed delay and productivity analyses on multi-billion construction projects, resolving issues between owners, general contractors, and subcontractors both during and after the project.

Mr. Salah has an M.B.A. from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an M.S. and a B.C.E. in Construction Engineering and Management from Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt. He is a Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) and a Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute. He received his Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) from the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) and is an Oracle Certified Implementation Specialist in the leading industry scheduling software, Primavera P6.

Mr. Salah has extensive experience on roadways, residential buildings, airports, power plants, hotels, telecommunications, petrochemicals, oil and gas, and infrastructure across the United States, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, and the Middle East & North Africa region.

Our Team

  • M.B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2025

    M.S. Construction Engineering & Management, Cairo University, 2022

    B.C.E. Construction Engineering & Management, Cairo University, 2016

  • Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) • PMI

    Project Management Professional (PMP) • PMI

    Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) • NCEES

    Contractual & Legal Aspects in the Construction Industry • CLAC

  • Financial Ratio Analysis in Construction Using Machine Learning, International Structural Engineering and Construction (ISEC 2021) Conference

    • Analyzed productivity loss at one of the largest of three international airports in Saudi Arabia using the measured mile analysis method. Collaborated with delay experts to develop delay expert reports and prepare for arbitration proceedings.

    • Analyzed owner-caused delays and disruptions on behalf of the contractor on a $4.8B refinery project in the Middle East. Developed expert reports, analyzed tribunal awards, and calculated best and worst-case scenarios for arbitration.

    • Employed project-specific productivity studies, including the measured mile and project-comparison studies, to quantify the productivity loss resulting from COVID-19 impacts on multiple construction projects with the New York School Construction Authority.

    •  Performed schedule and delay analysis to quantify owner-related delays in the Metro-North Railroad Power C&S Infrastructure Improvements project with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City.

    • Analyzed critical path delays on behalf of general contractor for a $150M+ highway project with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) using the half-step analysis technique. This allowed the contractor to identify the areas where TxDOT was delaying the critical path of the project and identify potential mitigation/acceleration scenarios included in the contemporaneous schedules.  

    •  Prepared, analyzed, and critiqued over a dozen delay analyses submitted to Departments of Transportation throughout the United States using the as-planned vs. as-built, impacted as-planned, and retrospective TIA methods specified in AACE International’s Recommended Practice 29R-03, Forensic Schedule Analysis.

    •  Performed project scheduling, change order evaluation, “what-if” scenarios, and delay analysis for a general contractor during the construction of floodwalls and levees for a $45M+ project with the Army Corps of Engineers in California. Also performed the same services on a wastewater treatment plant project in Washington