DLB ASSOCIATES - Key Persons


David Quirk

Job Titles:
  • Managing Principal
  • Strategic Planner
David is a strategic planner with practical experience in all aspects of the design, construction, commissioning, and operations of buildings and building systems. Having spent 25 years working in various capacities and roles across three (3) fortune 100's, three (3) consulting firms, and a contracting startup, David has served in most of the design and construction roles. David's trade experience includes all broad and detailed experience in all trades as well as all services in the built-environment. As a licensed professional engineer (PE) in over 30 States, David serves as one of DLB's twenty plus PE's on staff. Aside from business operations, David manages the Commissioning, Energy Management, Owner Representatives, Master Systems Integrators (MSI), Software DevOps, and Design teams within DLB.

John Lanni

Job Titles:
  • Managing Principal
John is renaissance engineer who's passion combines the precision of a theoretical analyst with the practical experience of a problem solver. John has specialized knowledge in infrastructure analysis and engineering economics with significant in-country expertise in international design, logistics and construction activities in EMEA and APAC locations. He brings a both a breadth of experience and depth of knowledge to every engagement. John's duties outside business operations includes oversight of both the Design and Energy Management teams.

Neil Chauhan

Job Titles:
  • Managing Principal
Neil epitomizes the very definition of a renaissance engineer having mastered an incredibly varied and diverse set of skills which are further leveraged by his unique ability to absorb, analyze, extract, package, present and articulate complex and / or voluminous data with extreme clarity, resonance and tangibility. Bringing an extreme intensity, energy, incredible speed of thought (and speech), agility and an inherent competitive drive to never settle and always excel, Neil is a difference maker that is often at the core of DLB's many first-of-a-kind (FOAK) internal and external initiatives and results. Neil is a true industry disruptor who leverages his intuition and advanced level education in graphical communication to champion a complete revolution of conventional design drawings into a groundbreaking, leaner, visually rich communication centric work product that is rapidly consumed, readily comprehended and mitigates the risk of misinterpretation all of which results in accurate scope understanding / pricing and fewer surprises / blindsides during construction. It is an approach that is quickly generating endorsers and promoters throughout all facets of the industry.