May 2021 – Specifications are written to communicate with potentially hundreds of people involved with a project, to assure they implement both the intent of the designers and the requirements needed to assure proper installation. Specifications can be as complex to develop as the construction drawings. While construction drawings show products, materials, and equipment for a project quantitatively, specifications detail the qualitative requirements of those elements.
Having well-developed specifications is an important part of the design process and can help simplify project management. At DTR Consulting Services, Inc., we have extensive experience in developing technical building specifications that comes from hundreds of projects worth billions of dollars in construction costs. DTR’s technical and support staff serve clients from multiple offices, offering some of the best resources in the country all in one firm.