Tapan Patni is a Managing Director at GlassRatner and has over 25 years of experience as an engineer, project director and consultant in the petrochemical, midstream, and power and energy industries, including 20 years with a leading full- service engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) company.
His expertise includes project management, feasibility assessment, project design, cost estimating, scheduling, and constructability analysis, and he has led and successfully delivered lump-sum EPC projects with contracts up to $1.5B in value. He has provided guidance to owners with commercial and technical assessments of currently available technologies, project sites, balance of plant works, infrastructure needs, equipment providers, contractual structures, and AFE-quality estimates through his career.
Mr. Patni applies his deep technical knowledge and proven track record in project execution—from concept through startup—to provide expert analysis and testimony in construction claims and disputes. He possesses extensive experience in complex EPC execution matters and multi-disciplinary technical issues arising throughout the project lifecycle. His expertise proves particularly valuable in identifying deficiencies in the development and execution of technically complex or accelerated projects, and in cases where scope changes have exceeded reasonable thresholds.
- Construction Claims & Disputes
- EPC Project Management
- Causation Analysis
- Standard of Care
- Contract Negotiations
- Contract Evaluation
- Lump Sum Projects
- Conceptual & Detailed Design
- Claim Preparation & Analysis
- Chage Order Preparation & Analysis
- Quantum / Damage Assessment
- Risk Management
- Due Diligence
- Cost Estimating
- Deviation from Industry Practice
- CPM Scheduling
- Constructability Analysis
- Portfolio Risk Assessment
- Project Viability Evaluation
- Feasibility Studies
- Process Technology Integration
- Chemical, Petrochemical, Green Fuels – development, execution and cases: over 10 projects, including the following industry sectors: Propane dehydrogenation (PDH); hydrogen production; ammonia production; catalyst manufacturing; methanol production, ethylene tetramerization
- Refining, Midstream and Gas Processing: development and execution of over 25 projects, including the following industry sectors: NGL; export terminals; gas processing, fractionation, and treating; refineries
- Power and Energy – development, execution and cases: over 50 projects, including the following industry sectors: Single cycle & combined cycle power plants; cogeneration facilities; upgrades to coal-fired plants, renewable & green energy; compressed air, hydrogen, and battery energy storage facilities
- Over 5 projects, including the following industry sectors: Light industrial and commercial construction, municipal revamps
- Project Management Institute (PMI)
- Construction Industry Institute (CII)
- Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering, International (AACEi)
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- Tau Beta Pi Honor Society