About
Hansell Pasco is a partner with 25 years of expertise in financial advisory for high-stakes real estate and construction projects. As an expert witness he has provided testimony in courts and arbitrations, and presented findings on financial damages in dispute resolution board hearings, evaluation hearings, and mediations. In prior positions he has held advisory or principal roles managing the complexities of large-scale transactions and disputes. He joined Accuracy in 2024.
Hansell’s career spans significant construction cost analyses across diverse industries and geographies. His extensive portfolio encompasses financial modelling, risk mitigation, and financial forensics, alongside pivotal roles in litigation consulting and dispute resolution. He leads teams in validating intricate economic damages, authors expert reports, and serves as a trusted advisor on real estate, energy, and infrastructure projects.
As a former CFO, Hansell possesses a comprehensive understanding of the real estate development lifecycle, from site selection through construction to operational management, making him a formidable asset in high-risk arbitration contexts.
Qualifications
- Business Administration with Special Attainments in Commerce, Washington & Lee University (2000)
- Certified Fraud Examiner (ACFE: 2017 to Current)
Rankings
In-depth expertise
Construction Advisory & Disputes
Hansell provides clients with expert advisory services and testimony on troubled capital projects. He evaluates and quantifies claims for damages related to design errors & omissions, differing site conditions, discrete changes, acceleration, escalation, delays, and disruption. Hansell has advised clients on project controls, risk mitigation, and project close-out resolutions.
Hansell has deep experience in transportation infrastructure and energy projects domestically and internationally.
Real Estate and Commercial Damages Disputes
Hansell assists clients with financial analyses necessary to investigate lost profits, breach of contract damages, and fraud related matters. Hansell has advised clients on site selection, equity-partner reporting, developer fee arrangements, leasing strategy, and operations.
Example of engagements
Heavy Civil Infrastructure expert assignments
- Conducted comprehensive analyses and priced claims for deficient design, delays, acceleration, disruption, differing site conditions, and cumulative impacts on major highway reconstruction projects across North Carolina, California, Virginia, and Colorado.
- Validated incurred costs and quantified damages from deficient and late design, differing site conditions, shift work, overtime, delays, access restrictions, and disruption on the construction of bridges in California, New York, Virginia, North Carolina, Texas, and Florida.
- Developed productivity impact models, validated incurred costs, and priced requests for equitable adjustments while quantifying claims for constructors and subcontractors on light rail projects in New Jersey, Virginia, Washington DC, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Ottawa, and London.
Energy & Industrial expert assignments
- Analyzed craft labor productivity, time-related costs, staff labor, material escalation, fuel supply and storage costs, quantity growth, and schedule mitigation impacts on various EPC builders of power plants in New York, Michigan, California, Maryland, Mississippi, and United Arab Emirates.
- Quantified lost labor productivity based on comparable project data, wage rate escalation and activity related support costs on a cement manufacturing facility in California.
Facilities & Real Estate matters
- Provided quantum damages analyses to owners, contractors and subcontractors on various university and military housing, dining, and healthcare facilities.
- Analysed lost profits and construction cost overruns on numerous multi-family and mixed-used developments in California, Virginia, New York, Florida, Tennessee, North Dakota, Dublin, and London.