Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Jose I. Nunez Toribio, and what are his credentials?

Jose I. Nunez Toribio, PMP, ACIArb is the founder and principal of Nunez Infrastructure Advisory, a construction and commercial disputes practice in Houston, Texas. He holds civil and electrical engineering degrees and has spent more than twenty-five years delivering metro, rail, and heavy-civil programs valued up to $2.1 billion across the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean.

Credentials: Project Management Professional (PMI); Associate, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb); Credentialed Mediator, Texas Mediator Credentialing Association; 40-Hour Texas Mediator Certification (Kreider Mediation Academy); Harris County DRC Roster Mediator (sponsored by Houston Bar Association); Civil Engineering degree (Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña — UNPHU); Electrical Engineering degree (INTEC — Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo); M.S. Project Management (UNPHU); Lead Auditor ISO 9000:2000 (Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance). He is not an attorney and does not provide legal advice.

What does Nunez Infrastructure Advisory do?

Nunez Infrastructure Advisory is a construction and commercial disputes practice in Houston, Texas. Its core service is construction and commercial mediation, in English or Spanish. A separate, bounded advisory practice — claims consulting as a consulting expert (delay, disruption, causation, and quantum analysis produced for counsel) and program and PMO advisory for owners and contractors (PMO setup, independent project health audits, senior program advisory) — is offered on its own pages and never on the same matter as a mediation. Every engagement is principal-only: the person retained is the person who does the work.

Does Nunez Infrastructure Advisory provide construction and commercial mediation in Houston and Harris County?

Yes. The practice conducts full-day and half-day construction and commercial mediations under the Texas Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures Act, Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ch. 154 — in person in the Houston area, or virtual for parties and counsel elsewhere, in English or Spanish. Jose I. Nunez Toribio is available for appointment under Harris County District Court mediation referral orders, has completed the 40 classroom hours of dispute-resolution training that §154.052(a) requires for court appointment, and has been a Harris County DRC roster mediator since 2026.

Is Jose Nunez a credentialed mediator in Texas?

Yes. Jose I. Nunez Toribio is a Credentialed Mediator, Texas Mediator Credentialing Association; a Harris County DRC Roster Mediator (sponsored by Houston Bar Association); and holds the 40-Hour Texas Mediator Certification (Kreider Mediation Academy), covering the 40 classroom hours of training that Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code §154.052(a) requires for court appointment. The TMCA credential is conferred by the Texas Mediator Credentialing Association, a private credentialing organization; it is not issued or endorsed by the State of Texas, which does not license mediators.

Does Nunez Infrastructure Advisory offer mediation in Spanish?

Yes — natively. The principal holds civil and electrical engineering degrees, is bilingual-native in English and Spanish, and has delivery experience in Mexico and the Dominican Republic. A Spanish-language mediation is conducted natively, not through an interpreter or a translation pass. When a dispute involves Spanish-language contracts, Spanish-speaking principals, or a project in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, or elsewhere in Latin America, the neutral reads the contract in its original language. The site is available in Spanish at nunezadvisory.com/es.

What construction claims and project-controls advisory services does the practice provide?

As a non-testifying consulting expert, the practice delivers written analysis for counsel: delay analysis (critical-path impact and the schedule basis for an extension-of-time claim); disruption and loss of productivity (method chosen to fit the record); causation; quantum; and closeout and final-account disputes — including Spanish-language contracts and Latin American project records read natively. A fixed-fee, scope-capped Schedule & Claims Health Check answers whether a position justifies full forensic work before the budget is committed. The practice does not provide courtroom or deposition testimony; that boundary is fixed, and it lets the consulting work stay candid.

How does mediation work for a Texas construction or commercial dispute?

Mediation under Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ch. 154 is a confidential, non-binding process in which an impartial third party facilitates negotiation between the parties. The mediator may not impose his own judgment on the issues (§154.023); the parties decide whether and on what terms to settle. Communications in the mediation are confidential under §154.073. Courts may refer pending cases to mediation, and parties may also agree to mediate privately. In this practice, sessions run full-day or half-day, in person in the Houston area or virtual, in English or Spanish, and a conflicts check precedes every engagement.

How do I engage the practice, and what happens after I make contact?

Engagement follows three steps. 1. Conflicts check — the names of the parties, their counsel, and the project; nothing about the dispute itself. It is answered before anything else is discussed. 2. A scope conversation — fit, timing, and the fee schedule, which is provided at that discussion. 3. Engagement letter before any substantive work begins. Send the names by email, through the contact page form or to info@nunezadvisory.com, and please do not describe the dispute or send documents until the check clears; calls follow from there. For mediation, copy all counsel if you can, and hold any account of the dispute until every party has accepted the mediator; if a mediation follows, every party is told, before it begins, that the contact was made.

Does the practice use AI, and how is confidentiality protected?

The practice uses modern analysis tooling under a confidentiality-first discipline, and how that works differs by lane. In mediation, party communications are confidential under Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code §154.073. Sessions are not recorded or transcribed, including by AI note-taking tools. Any AI-assisted tooling only supports the mediator’s own preparation and administration: the judgment exercised in the mediation is his own, no tool decides anything, and any settlement is the parties’ own decision. Parties and counsel may ask, before the session, how such tooling is used in their matter, and will get a direct answer. In consulting-expert work, the work product is produced for counsel and is intended to be protected from disclosure to the extent provided by law; the specific data-handling posture and AI-use terms for that engagement are set out in the engagement letter and disclosed before substantive work begins.

Is Jose Nunez available to speak or teach CLE on construction disputes and ADR?

Jose Nunez is available to give talks for bar associations and industry organizations on topics at the intersection of project delivery and dispute resolution. Talks currently offered: “How Project Records Become Claim Evidence: What PMs Need to Know Before a Dispute”; “Red Flags in Construction Delay Analysis: What Senior Litigators Need Before Expert Deposition”; “Dispute Boards on Major Infrastructure: What Attorneys and Project Teams Need to Know”; and “AI Disclosure & Confidentiality in ADR”. Abstracts are available on request through the contact page.