Expertise

Building Technologies

Lord Aeck Sargent has an in-house construction materials and specifications expert. Richard Robison, a principal at LAS is a nationally recognized expert in this field.

He coauthored the American Institute of Architect’s SweetSpec and Heery International’s SpecSystem, the first automated, interactive, knowledge-based specifications writing systems for architects and engineers. Richard has led seminars on advanced specification-writing techniques in major cities coast to coast. He has also been awarded the Ben John Small Award, the Construction Specifications Institute’s highest honor for “special proficiency and outstanding stature as a practicing specification writer.”

Richard serves as a materials specialist for many of the firm’s projects, particularly those historic in nature, and provides conditions assessments, masonry remediations, stone repair and forensic investigations, among other services.