Chartered Construction Consultants

A niche consultancy serving a Global Market

McMillan Associates is a highly respected cross sector construction consultancy providing broad spectrum of commercial expertise, contractual and dispute handling, including experience based expert witness analysis, reports and personal testimonies.

McMillan Associates also provides short term response when called upon, to provide Interim Management support to overcome client’s short or medium term needs. McMillan Associates experience is both national and international not just London based, providing the same high level professional service, wherever and whenever.

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Expert Witness

An expert witness is someone who makes his/her knowledge and experience available to the court. He/she can be appointed by one of the parties or act as a single joint expert. Either way the experts first duty is to the court.

Keith McMillan, is the principal expert at McMillan Associates. In addition to serving as an expert witness he has given evidence at various levels of the courts as well as at UK and international bi-lingual arbitration hearings and tribunals. He was one of the first professionals to be accredited as an adjudicator.

As a Chartered Construction Manager with over 40 years of experience, he is ideally qualified to serve as an expert witness in construction and related industrial disputes. His opinions are based on years of practical experience, backed by technical knowledge and incisive decision making, not just academic theory.

Commercial Support

McMillan Associates is a long established and highly respected consultancy undertaking contract, commercial and contract management assignments throughout the UK and overseas (Asia, Middle East, Africa. Scandinavia and Europe).

Our Commercial Support covers the full spectrum of the construction industry, ensuring all clients benefit from our unrivalled experience and technical expertise. It incorporates the widest horizon of a projects life, from Business Case preparation to Final Account sign off.

Health & Safety • Contract Administration • Procurement

However, experience has taught us that not all clients have the same requirements. We therefore, provide commercial support either as an inception to completion Programme Management package, whereby we handle all matters pertaining to the project development or alternatively as a series of specific sub packages focusing on one or more elements of the overall project.

Claims Handling

It is the diverse range of our experience that helps make McMillan Associates a unique specialist, claims consultancy. A history of working on a broad range of site based roles on small contracts and from office junior through the complete gambit of responsibilities to project manager on major projects, provides the experience to complement professional qualifications and Board Room duties. As does the diversity offered by working on different types of projects, under changing circumstances in many Countries.

The various aspects of our specialist dispute work is backed by an essential range of support services including; health and safety, risk analysis, procurement (the RAMS Principles) and contracts administration utilising programme and cost KPIs. The list and range of projects with which we have been associated bears witness to our ability to integrate judicious use of these skill and experience with our acknowledged claims and expert witness abilities.