DTR Consulting Services approaches our work taylored to fit your firm…   We have set out to create services unique from all others.  We are not the one person independent spec writer who never visits your office or the mega construction management consultant hired by a project client to oversee the design and construction document process that does not have your best interests at hand, rather we are a firm founded to be a true extension of your architectural office.  To borrow a line from our mission statement we “Utilize our knowledge and experience to bolster our client’s presentations and construction documents to increase their firm‘s value in the eyes of their clients and to limit all parties exposure to potential claims”.

DTR provides our clients with additional resources to produce top quality project specifications thoroughly coordinated with the project team as well as a resource to assist in product selection and construction techniques suitable to your project.  It is not unusual for us to co-author technical sections with structural, civil, landscape, mechanical and electric disciplines while reviewing the entire project to prevent shortfall and double coverage of building components.  One document, technically coordinated with consistent clear format.

We take the same approach on our in-house Peer Reviews.  Our “Complete Check“ review was developed from my experience as an Architect when having outside services review our documents (i.e.; Constructability Reviews).  The results were anything but what I needed, costing me valuable time in sifting through comments that were mostly design related, not relevant to that project or misleading.  These reports had to be heavily edited before I could give them to our project consultants, and multiple copies of redline drawing sheets had to be coordinated to make sure each consultant got what they needed, all in short period of time to allow us to meet our clients deadline. It is from this experience and understanding of what our architectural clients needs are that we formed our current services and with which I founded this great firm in 2002. 

Thomas Berger, CSI, CDT, SCIP

Founder/Managing Principal