Executive Operating Partner

Forty-five years of
commercial mechanical —
from every seat at the table.

Owner. Contractor. Consulting and testifying expert. Rick McCally has spent a career making complexity legible to the person who has to decide — and finding the money others miss.

Capital creates opportunity. Execution creates enterprise value.

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What I Do

Three ways the work gets done.

The common thread is operating judgment — earned in the field, at the owner's table, and under cross-examination.

Executive Operating Partnership

Not a consultant delivering a report. A partner who joins the leadership team and owns outcomes alongside ownership.

Operational assessment and turnaround
Acquisition evaluation before you close
Post-close integration and scaling
Leadership development and succession

Construction Claims & Expert Testimony

Consulting and testifying expert for attorneys nationwide — building owners, architects, municipalities, MEP and general contractors, including ENR Top 100 firms.

Schedule delay and disruption analysis
Productivity and lost-efficiency claims
Change order and cost-to-complete review
Testimony at mediation, arbitration, or trial

Owner & Program Advisory

Owner-side MEP judgment at institutional scale — programming, design review, and selection of the professionals who will build it.

MEP programming and design oversight
Selection committee participation
Healthcare and institutional facilities
Pre-construction and bid strategy

Representative Work

Finding the money others miss.

Pattern recognition, applied to construction data — where a project went off track, when, and who caused it.

$6 million in unbilled scope

During a routine operational review, uncovered more than $6 million in contract scope changes that had been performed but never billed — unnoticed by the management team.

Los Alamos National Laboratory

On the $185 million central utility plant serving a $4.5 billion facility — a fixed-price design/build contract running $35 million over budget and a year behind. Located every dollar of the overage and the lost time behind it.

Parkland Health — both sides of the table

Led owner-side MEP programming and design for the $1.27 billion, 2.5-million-square-foot replacement campus, then crossed the table: the mechanical team was awarded the $152 million contract at a $13 million preference over the low bid.

Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama

Claims and consulting work on the Hyundai automotive manufacturing complex in Montgomery — one of the largest industrial construction programs in the Southeast, and among the most schedule-driven environments in manufacturing.

A 4,000-person turnaround

Brought into a faltering national mechanical firm and uncovered deep divisional dysfunction and a near-total absence of contract oversight — the kind of problem that never appears on a balance sheet until it does.

Twenty years as owner-operator

Owned and operated the family mechanical contracting firm for two decades — 250 employees and more than $300 million in total contract responsibility.

Heritage

A McCally family tradition since 1909.

Four generations of mechanical contractors. Rick was the first to earn a college degree — his father and grandfather went to work straight out of high school.

1909 · Great-Grandfather
The trade begins. Rick's great-grandfather went into plumbing and heating in 1909 — before air conditioning existed as a trade. A craft passed hand to hand on the job, not taught in a classroom.
Second Generation · Grandfather
Service, then back to the trade. Rick's grandfather served in the Navy during World War II before returning to the business.
Third Generation · Father
The company grows into commercial and industrial work across North Texas. Rick became a partner alongside his father and brother in September 1983.
Fourth Generation · Rick McCally
In the field at age ten. Partner at twenty-four. Went on to own and operate the firm for twenty years — 250 employees and more than $300 million in total contract responsibility — and was the first in the family business to earn a college degree.

Where the judgment comes from

A century of family contracting is not a marketing line — it is why the operating instinct is there. Rick has installed the pipe, priced the change order, sat on the selection committee, and explained all three to a jury.

Projects the firm and Rick have contributed to include Dallas City Hall, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Dallas Convention Center, the Central Public Library, UT Southwestern, Presbyterian Hospital, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Parkland replacement campus.

Four generations of the McCally family: Rick's father, Rick, his son, and his grandson. — Four generations — the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth.

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Forty-five years ofcommercial mechanical —from every seat at the table.