Are You Ready to Get Technical With Your Documents?

We help you to enhance project documentation quality by addressing the technical challenges that arise between design and construction.

Building Tomorrow’s Leaders in Construction Excellence

Together, let’s increase quality in our industry by addressing the technical challenges between design and construction.

Through customized training, on-demand education, one-on-one training, and technical documentation, we empower professionals to gain the knowledge and confidence they need to increase collaboration, clarity, and quality control within our industry.

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CONNECTIONS

Building relationships, increasing credibility, and understanding the construction process.

EDUCATION

Online and on-demand education, onboarding, team training, upskilling, increasing awareness around documentation, and one-on-one training.

SPECIFICATIONS

Specifications for projects, manufacturers, guide specs, peer reviews, or as-needed oversight.

Why Choose Us?

TRC has been committed to quality construction specifications for nearly 30 years. During this time there has been a recognizable decline in the number of specifiers in the industry. Where there was once difficulty in getting a job as a specifier now it is difficult to find a specifier.

In recent years specification software has improved and several options exist in the market today that make specifications more manageable. While these systems won’t replace human interaction or project-specific customization, they simplify the redundancy of some specification tasks and improve overall quality control.

Our goal with Teaching Construction Specifications is to empower construction teams to develop and further edit specifications for projects and incorporate industry standard practices and language.

Whether the need is a seminar or workshop, project kick-off, or working with a young professional in your office, we look forward to partnering with your office to upskill your team in the production of quality specifications.

Please contact me at sherry@trc-consultants.com to discuss how we can enhance your teams’ confidence in development, coordination, and delivery of project specifications.

What Clients Are Saying

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Sherry is invaluable to our design team with her quick and innovative insight into materials, products, and construction details. She brings the best attitude and willingness to troubleshoot last-minute material substitutions or unforeseen construction conditions of existing buildings. Her product research for roof insulation and re-use of window shadow boxes contributed to the final energy efficiency of a 1930s adaptive reuse church project that is now LEED Platinum.
 
Cesar Murillo
Pfieffer Partners, a Perkins Eastman Studio

Sherry is invaluable to our design team with her quick and innovative insight into materials, products, and construction details. She brings the best attitude and willingness to troubleshoot last-minute material substitutions or unforeseen construction conditions of existing buildings. Her product research for roof insulation and re-use of window shadow boxes contributed to the final energy efficiency of a 1930s adaptive reuse church project that is now LEED Platinum.
 
Cesar Murillo

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Sherry Harbaugh, FCSI, CCS, RA, SCIP

Sherry HarbaughSherry started her architectural career in Sacramento after finding her interest in exploring the integration of materials and coordination of drawings and specifications. Now settled in Spokane, Sherry has been an independent specifier for 30 years and dedicated her career to writing specifications for clients and manufacturers across the country on a variety of project types.

Sherry’s extensive experience in the field has led to a passion to educate and empower construction teams to be confident about communicating with specifications and learning about construction materials. She is excited to educate the next generation of leaders in the industry and is committed to being a resource for the industry through mentoring, one-on-one coaching, and on-the-job training opportunities.

Architectural Registration
Washington State

Education

Master of Architecture
Montana State University 2009

Affiliations/Credentials

  • Fellow, Construction Specifications Institute
  • LEED Accredited Professional
  • Specifications Consultants in Independent Practice
  • Certificate in Personal Development Coaching from the CAPP Institute
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Sherry Harbaugh
FCSI, CCS, RA, SCIP

Sherry HarbaughStarting her architectural career in Sacramento and settled now in Spokane, Sherry quickly found her interest in architecture was exploring the integration of materials and coordination of drawings and specifications. Having found that focus Sherry spent her career dedicated to writing specifications for clients and manufacturers across the country on a variety of project types.

Despite working remotely with the vast majority of her clients, Sherry was able to develop strong relationships with the people she works with. Writing and consulting provided numerous opportunities to assist her clients with project-specific material research, material classification, and use specifications to bridge the gap between drawings and construction.

She remains committed to connecting people and products and being a resource to the construction industry as her emphasis is redirected toward teaching principles of specification writing and mentoring future specifiers. She intends to share her expertise in a more in-depth, focused way, by integrating one-on-one teaching and mentoring with on-the-job training.

Architectural Registration
Washington State

Education
Master of Architecture Montana State University 2009

Affiliations/Credentials
Fellow, Construction Specifications Institute
LEED Accredited Professional
Specifications Consultants in Independent Practice

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