Services
Program & Project Management
MCG develops overall integrated master programs for managing budgets, expenditures, and schedules. MCG has extensive experience developing and implementing program and project management and control systems for major public and private projects. We understand the critical need for a comprehensive program that controls scope and cost and maintains the schedule of your program and projects.
CONSTRUCTION CONSULTING
Construction Management
MCG’s comprehensive construction management consulting services are designed to provide the best results for your project. Our experts possess decades of engineering and construction experience and apply this knowledge to everyday challenges that owners, contractors, engineers, and architects face. We tailor every team to fit your specific project needs, and we owe our success to detail-oriented staff who know how to critically analyze schedules, submittals, change orders, payment applications, claims, and time impacts. We maintain strict compliance with the contract documents, while maintaining a collaborative team approach to achieve your specific project goals. Most importantly, we bring transparency to all aspects of our work.
Cost Estimating
Our standardized project-level reports track cost trends and variances at a level that is meaningful to the overall completion of the project.
MCG performs detailed cost estimate reviews at various stages of design and construction. When preparing an estimate, MCG develops strategies that maximize cost benefits.
Schedule Management
MCG emphasizes detailed and accurate project management, as seasoned Construction Scheduling Consultants, provides expert CPM Scheduling Services. Our areas of proficiency include:
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MCG specializes in providing Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling. MCG’s consultants are experts in developing, analyzing, updating, and monitoring project schedules, and other project reporting procedures.
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MCG provides in-depth progress reviews and status updates as the project progresses while coordinating with the client. MCG uses the decades of experience and knowledge to identify potential challenges for key forecasted work and provide expert recommendations before delay ensues.
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MCG performs schedule analysis and forecasting to enable the project team to plan resource allocations with greater efficiency and manage project conditions to accurately project key milestones.
PROJECT RISK MANAGEMENT
An effective project management plan maximizes value within established cost and time allowances. While typical components of project management-scope management, change management, cost/schedule controls- are effective individually, a continuous, integrated risk management process is essential for successful project execution.
MCG risk management specialists identify and evaluate project risks, manage risk register manage risk registers, facilitate, and develop qualitative risk assessments, conduct quantitative risk analyses, and develop risk mitigation strategies and plans in conjunction with project stakeholders. We then integrate those assessments into robust, quantitative cost and schedule risk analyses and monitor and mitigate any risks accordingly before an issue occurs.
PROJECT CONTROLS
Project complexity, organization maturity, team experience, cost, project importance, and other factors determine the level of control needed. Excessive control can cause project costs to spiral upward and divert resources from more important tasks that can lead to delays, errors, political repercussions, and lower-than-expected project quality.
Project controls is a MCG core competency, and our firm is an established leader in cost and schedule controls. MCG has maintained this leadership by actively participating in trade organizations-such as Project Management Institute (PMI) and AACE International-that advance knowledge of project controls; and by supporting staff efforts to secure appropriate credentials.
CONSTRUCTION CLAIMS
When construction disputes or delays occur, the parties involved recognize that a great deal is at stake. Identifying competent construction experts to resolve those disputes makes a significant difference in your outcome. Our experts have a wealth of experience in identifying, analyzing, preparing, and presenting claims and disputes on construction and engineering projects. MCG’s distinct edge over other construction claims experts is a result of our expertise and experience in managing more than $50 billion in actual construction projects and programs. Our hands-on experience on real-life projects has consistently proven invaluable to clients who ask us for expert advice or when providing after-the-fact analyses of disputes and claims.
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