Pinnell/Busch: Project Management Consultants for the Design & Construction Industry
Construction Consulting for Contractors - Bottom Line ManagementSM
We can help you be more profitable over the long-term with our Bottom Line ManagementSM services. This means investing in your people and your organization. And, we can help you solve a pressing problem that needs immediate attention - like disputed change orders that threaten your profitability. We can prepare a reliable schedule for more efficient sequencing and on-time completion.
Contractor Clients
We work with large multi-national contractors and subcontractors, medium-sized regional contractors, and small local subcontractors, in addition to construction managers, suppliers, and others. We are familiar with all types of construction, including heavy/highway, commercial and institutional buildings, manufacturing facilities, mechanical, electrical, and multi-family residential construction.
Bottom Line ManagementSM
Bottom Line ManagementSM is our approach to greater profitability that helps you focus on your long-term bottom line. It starts with a review of company strengths and weaknesses, includes a brief but comprehensive plan for improvements, and continues through implementation and verification of results.
Company-Wide Services
Take a comprehensive top-to-bottom approach, or select just one of the following services:
- Strategic Planning to set a successful course to meet your objectives.
- Marketing to help you win more negotiated contracts or transition from competitive bidding to CM/GC.
- Total Quality Management (TQM) to design and implement improvements to company practices.
- Procedures Manuals to ensure projects are well-run, timely, and profitable.
- Estimating and Job Cost Accounting Systems Selection and Procedures for better cost control.
- Training for better project management, scheduling, estimating, and change management.
Project-Specific Services
Choose a single service to meet a clearly defined need, or combine several to upgrade your business.
- Estimating and Quantity Takeoffs to help you with a work load crunch.
- Proposal Preparation to help you win more negotiated, CM/GC, or Design/Build proposals.
- Constructability Review and Value Engineering to identify potential problems before they occur.
- Jobsite Planning and Critical Path Scheduling to control progress and avoid delays.
- Jobsite Staffing to provide you with temporary or job-duration engineering and supervisory personnel.
- Troubleshooting and Productivity Improvement to help you to salvage a project in trouble.
- Partnering to facilitate teambuilding, dispute avoidance, and easier dispute resolution.
- Neutral Expert and Dispute Review Board Panel Services for independent review of disputes.
- Mediation to help both parties reach a negotiated settlement when negotiations are stalled.
- Arbitration Panel Service to provide an impartial decision that respects the rights of all parties.
- Claims Consulting and Expert Witness Services to prepare fully-documented, well-reasoned claims that can be quickly and fairly negotiated, and to testify in arbitration or litigation if settlement isn't possible.
Experience
Click on Projects to see a representative list of projects or Contractor Clients. Call for references.