DTR Consulting Services, Inc., Roseville, California, USA
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| Architecture Firm | DTR Consulting Services, Inc. |
| People | Thomas Berger, Gail Baker |
| Address | 2901 DouglasBlvd, Suite 395 |
| Roseville, California, 95661-4246 USA | |
| Telephone | 916-772-3600 |
| Fax | 916-772-3663 |
| info@dtrcs.com | |
| Web Site | www.dtrcs.com |
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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.
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.
DTR Consulting Services provides the services of an Architectural Hardware Consultant (AHC). Whether we write your project specifications, or your firm produces your own, having a well coordinated, non-proprietary hardware specification, hardware sets, openings list and a well coordinated door/frame schedule on your drawings is directly related to the amount of time your firm will spend on the construction submittals and potential cost related changes in the field due to incomplete or incorrect hardware sets and incompatibility of hardware doors and frames specified.
The additional benefit to our service is door hardware which is consistent with your design, selection of products that do not impair sightlines and that are appropriate for the usage of the facility and specific opening. An unknown benefit is that many times proprietary hardware is specified without your knowledge driving costs up on items that impact other areas of the project.
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.
