"MASTERSPEC has provided us with a comprehensive resource that has given us the ability for one-stop shopping."

Steward Quarty
Principal and Founding Partner
Houghton Quarty Warr Architects LLC

Houghton Quarty Warr Architects LLC (HQW), a ten-person architectural design firm, has been providing clients throughout the tri-state region of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut with architectural services for over thirty years. HQW Architects provides a full service that takes the client from conceptual planning through post-occupancy building evaluation. Services include feasibility studies, site analysis, site planning, landscape design, space programming, construction systems analysis, building design, historic preservation, capital needs assessments, life cycle costs, electrical and mechanical engineering, cost estimating, ADA compliance, and field inspection.

HQW has been utilizing MASTERSPEC for over 20 years as a vital part of the contract documentation that ensures the quality and integrity of each project.   Users Steward Quarty and Pete Andruskiewicz value MASTERSPEC because it saves important time by having a host of information at their fingertips. MASTERSPEC also saves HQW valuable time in research for all types of products. By reducing the amount of time required to research quality products for projects, money is saved.    

HQW key projects include:

• New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Company (NJMIC)
• Corporate Headquarters, Blair Academy
• Theatre, Dormitories, Library and Dining hall, Pope John XXIII Regional High School