McCullough and Associates

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.

Claims Analysis

We Prepare Good Claims, We Can Spot Bad Claims

Let us assist in your negotiation or dispute by providing our fresh, objective analysis of the claims levied against you. We will take into account all jobsite information from diaries, schedules, contracts and cost reports and then generate an expert opinion detailing the exact cause of cost overruns and who is contractually responsible.

We can provide the following analytical services

1. Entitlement Analysis
2. Schedule Analysis
3. Productivity Analysis
4. Cost Analysis

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.

Impact and Productivity Analysis

There are multitudes of factors that simultaneously influence a project’s productivity. McCullough & Associates streamlines your processes, controls costs, and provides timely and accurate information to keep you aware of changes and ahead of your competitors in the construction industry.

At McCullough & Associates, we implement the industry’s best services, productivity measurements and quantification techniques to control labor overruns and productivity losses. Our analysis techniques enhance collaboration, customer satisfaction and financial performance. 

Our productivity analysis techniques include:

•   Simplification of construction processes to boost operational efficiency
•   Close attention to key performance indicators to make business decisions
•   Best management practices and employee authorization to improve productivity
•   Implementation of activity-based analysis to control factors that affect productivity levels

Our experts have in-depth knowledge in the fields of labor efficiency, cost variance tracking, and productivity loss that keeps construction projects on track and running smoothly. 

Document Management

McCullough & Associates has worked with and advised attorneys for many years and we're familiar with legal standards for fact citation and document production and tracking. Our Certified Document Technologists organize your files in ways which are relevant to the case, but which still allow us to track where in the original document production the file came from. 

Digital Documents

We’re experienced with methods and workflows associated with mining and maintaining the integrity of digital documents, from email to photos to spreadsheets, PDFs and word-documents. We organize and employ all types of data into our analysis, from printed drawings, to the metadata of digital jobsite photos and spreadsheets.

Concordance

For complex cases, we build databases using Concordance, the same industry-leading document organization software that major law firms use. If you’ve already built a Concordance database for your case, we can re-use your investment by importing it into our system.

Trial Graphics / Exhibits

McCullough & Associates uses a broad variety of creative techniques to synthesize the complex data involved in construction projects into easy-to-understand visuals that dramatically and effectively communicate the issues, delays and narrative of a project. Below are some samples of some of the visuals we've produced for our clients. 

Expert Services

McCullough & Associates provides a comprehensive range of expert witness services for construction disputes.  Our experts have the credentials and experience to effectively present your project’s key issues with clear and concise testimony that has provided the winning edge at many formal arbitration hearings and trials.

We're experienced in answering interrogatory questions. Collectively, our experts have been involved with hundreds of cases and testified over a hundred times.

Our expert services include:

• Detailed reports describing the cause and effect relationship between issues and delays or disruptions.
• Assistance in cross-examination of other witnesses.
• Professional persuasive testimony for your dispute.
• Thorough evaluation of your claim for early resolution.
• Mediation, arbitration and litigation support.
• Graphics for negotiation, mediation, arbitration and litigation.
• Document control and evaluation.

Our mission is to provide you with complete satisfaction by quickly and precisely delivering world-class testimony for all of your legal needs.