McCullough and Associates

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.

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

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.

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.

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.