McCullough and Associates

General Contractors

We help general contractors coordinate all construction tasks and work with superintendents and specialty contractors on any number of projects. Applying our processes and techniques to functions of general contractors enhances loyalty and cooperation while avoiding common organized labor pitfalls.

Specialty Contractors

Specialty contractors are frequently small but conduct highly technical work. The specific nature of their trades often means they have the most strict contract and schedule requirements, while their small size frequently means they have the most to lose if a construction claim is filed against them.

We Understand Technical

In our thirty-plus years of business, McCullough & Associates has worked on airports, pipelines, highways, power plants, stadiums, and industrial facilities with all manner of technical contractors, and we've developed a deep understanding of these highly specialized trades and their complex relationships to the various parties involved in construction projects.

As scheduling experts, should a claim arise against you, we can appraise the situation and ensure that no other parties were involved in contributing to the delay or cost overruns. As construction experts, we can also cogently explain the complexities of your trade to all parties and how seemingly small factors can dramatically impact the completion of your highly technical work.

Claims Avoidance & Training

Learn From Over Thirty Years of Experience

Many construction disputes are a result of bad documentation and/or poor organization. Ideally, a claim should be so well documented that the contractual  entitlement and the parties at fault should be clear and indisputable.

Unfortunately, in our many years of claims experience, many of the claims that come across our desk are not well documented, causing hours of costly forensic research.

Let us teach you documentation, organization and scheduling best practices that will allow you to avoid these costly inefficiencies and make your claims clear, concise, and solid the first time.

Seminars

• Construction Delays and Impact
• Implementing Time Impact Analysis
• Project Documentation
• Construction Cost Control
• Contract Management

Workshops

Our workshops are designed for the interactive, small-group, lunch-table environment. We get to know the processes of your organization, and then give you specific advice on how you can improve your processes in a particular area.

• Dispute Resolution
• Schedule-delay and Disruption Analysis
• Claims Avoidance
• Contracts and Claims Analysis

Claims Preparation

Ensure that Your Claim is Rock-Solid

McCullough & Associates employs best-practices in claim preparation to ensure that your claim is well-documented, supported and justified so that your dispute will be resolved quickly and fairly with minimum legal expense.

Our well-rounded staff has extensive experience in multiple fields, from scheduling, to cost engineering, to contract management, to construction litigation. When we help prepare your claim, we will ensure your claim is defensible on all fronts using methodologies that are accepted on the courtroom floor.

Project Controls

Let us keep an eye on your project, and help you come in on time and on budget. Our certified cost engineers can track your project data and forecast budget overruns before they happen, helping you to be proactive in directing your project.

Change Management

Project changes and resultant cost overruns can become overwhelming. Our contract and claims experts can help you analyze your change orders to ensure that each one is justified and fair. Don’t wait for your change orders to turn into expensive disputes. Let us do the analysis work up front during construction when the data is still fresh

Documentation

Construction documentation is CRITICAL. From daily diaries to jobsite photos, we'll help you ensure that your project personnel provide ample record of construction progress so that you'll be protected should any dispute arise.

Contract Management

Construction contracts are long and complicated, and keeping track of all the little provisions can be a very daunting task. Let us reduce your litigation risk by managing these details for you. We will explain the complex legal language and put reporting policies in place that will ensure that the contracts are actually followed.

Schedule Development

Professional Scheduling for Projects that Deserve Nothing Less

McCullough & Associates' seasoned, professional team can help you to develop the best possible baseline schedule for your project.

Using the industry-standard Critical Path Method (CPM), we will work with your key personnel to develop schedule logic that allows you to meet your specifications and maximize the efficiency of your resources.

Our expert schedulers can then use this logic to build a powerful Primavera schedule that will allow you to track your project progress and dynamically update your logic as needed.

Primavera is the leading scheduling software in the construction industry, and we have been using it for over 20 years. Our experience allows us to leverage the full power of the software to create the highest-quality schedule possible.

Schedule Evaluation/Review

Reduce Risk, Check with the Experts

A good schedule is key to fulfilling contractual obligations and avoiding costly litigation. McCullough & Associates can evaluate your existing schedule, verify its logic and identify potential delays while you can still do something to correct them.

Do not risk project delays due to less-than optimum schedule logic. Let our experienced consultants objectively evaluate your schedule and give you practical advice to minimize your project risks.

Delay Analysis

Indisputable Techniques for Legal Disputes

Project delays and resultant damages are frequent causes of construction claims. McCullough & Associates' veteran schedulers have years of experience in forensic analysis of schedule updates and in isolating actual schedule impacts in complex multi-issue claims.

McCullough & Associates utilizes the best methods available to analyze delays and determine responsibility. Our experience allows us to perform accurate time impact analysis and evaluate concurrency of multiple issues. Our techniques are tested and recognized by the courts and boards.

Additionally, our familiarity with scheduling methodology allows us to evaluate opposing expert claims and verify their conclusions.

Progress Monitoring

McCullough & Associates' team of experienced CPM Schedulers can analyze schedule revisions as they are updated with as-built data, identify inefficiencies and time impact events, and determine the exact cause of these delays.

We can provide another pair of eyes on your project to ensure that your schedules are being updated according to best practices and that no details are ignored. As your schedules get updated with as-built data, we will provide you with regular, easy to understand reports on project progress and significant schedule changes so that you can be assured your project is running as smoothly as possible.

Additionally, we will advise as to the best ways to minimize impact should unforeseen circumstances occur, and we will verify that all schedule modifications are honest and realistic.

We will create a detailed report of our findings and offer practical solutions to remedy these delays. Additionally, we can provide time-impact analysis for making a time-extension request. Because we are an objective third party, the conclusions of our analysis can later be used in the legal process should a dispute arise.