Team members of DTC were honored to attend the Connecticut Green Building Council Awards at the Discovery Museum in Bridgeport, CT last night to accept the Public/Institutional Award of Merit for our work on Middletown Area Transit Bus Maintenance and Storage. DTC provided engineering system design and environmental services for this 18,000 square foot bus […]
By: Michael Casey, NICET II, Construction Project Manager — Why can’t they just move it over there? Why can’t they just use a different product. It won’t take long. We just have to move it over a little. I don’t like it quite like that.
Change. It’s just a small change. And it appears so innocuous. Often, […]
As we celebrate the end of National Women’s Month here at DTC, we can’t forget the woman who is in large part responsible for the existence of our company. Since co-founding DTC in 1979, Senior Vice President Leela Atluru has been deeply involved in almost all aspects of the business ranging from the conduct of […]
Published in Plumbing Systems and Design by James E. Stenqvist, CPD, LEED AP
View the article in its original PDF format: Design by Phases – Part 1
Most engineers use a six-phase project methodology. In chronological order, the six project phases are pre-design, schematic design, design development, construction documents, bidding and negotiations, and construction administration. It’s important […]
Several members of DTC’s staff were glad to trek up to South Hadley, MA to participate in the Annual Northeast Seabee Golf Tournament. Held by the Seabee Memorial Scholarship Association, the tournament was organized to raise future college funds for children of U.S. Navy Seabees. Not only did our DTC employees have a fantastic time […]
By: Glen Martin, LLA and DTC Landscape Architect — Rain gardens are a simple way to help improve the quality of stormwater runoff from a development. Rain gardens are shallow depressions designed to hold stormwater runoff from impervious surfaces of roofs and pavements and allow the stormwater to infiltrate into the soil. Rain gardens can be […]
By: Steve Gendreau, P.E., Ex DTC MEP Manager, Vice President, and Principal — Growing up, I thought that by 2015 highways would be comprised of hover cars flying at different elevations, people would be directly connected to the internet through chips inserted into their brains, and buildings would evolve into flower-like hybrids to perform their own […]
This morning several members of DTC’s staff were happy to take a break away from their desks to attend the North Haven Middle School Renovation Project groundbreaking ceremony. The school, originally built in 1960, will feature a new two-story academic wing and refurbished existing classrooms upon construction completion.
DTC is providing structural, civil, mechanical, electrical, plumbing […]
By: Shay Atluru, DTC President – Public libraries have historically served as the cornerstone of many communities throughout our great nation. They served as a place to read, learn, share, and commune.
Not just a home for books, they are a true public space for people from all walks of life to congregate almost in parallel play […]
By: Robert Hammersley, PMP, DTC Program Manager, Government Relations — When it comes to large capital construction projects funded by the state of Connecticut, these three words and the processes associated with them are among the most important towards getting any project off the ground.
Often, critics of the funding and financing system decry a process which […]
