OPERATOR-INFORMED. OWNER-FOCUSED.
Trusted counsel for complex projects and the organizations that deliver them.
Alex Dick brings 24 years of construction industry experience spanning project delivery, business operations, and executive leadership. His career encompasses complex projects across multiple market sectors and geographies, with clients ranging from major health systems and universities to private developers and federal agencies.
That breadth of experience, combined with a deep understanding of what it takes to build and run an effective organization, informs everything Stratton does: managing complex projects and helping clients strengthen the capabilities behind them.
OUR PRACTICE
Construction Management
Effective construction management is less about managing what happens and more about anticipating what could. That distinction is the product of experience, and it is what Stratton brings to every engagement.
Stratton's approach is grounded in the direct execution of complex construction across a wide range of market sectors, including multi-family, healthcare, education, government, and hospitality. That foundation informs how Stratton approaches owner representation: not as an administrator of the process, but as an experienced builder working exclusively on the owner's behalf.
Stratton provides owner's representative and construction management advisor services working solely in the owner's interest. The work spans the full project lifecycle, from pre-construction planning and contractor procurement through execution and closeout. The goal is consistent: stay ahead of the project, surface problems before they become costly, and keep the owner's interests at the center of every decision.
The experience behind Stratton includes projects across the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, and Mountain West, for clients ranging from major health systems and universities to private developers and federal agencies.
Advisory Services
Most organizations know where they want to go. The harder challenge is building the structure, systems, and discipline to get there and sustaining them once they exist.
Stratton works alongside leadership to operationalize their vision through the processes, standards, and organizational frameworks that translate goals into repeatable, measurable outcomes. Equally important is serving as a committed champion for those systems, because even the most thoughtfully designed playbook fails without someone accountable for keeping it alive within the organization.
The work is collaborative by design. Stratton doesn't arrive with predetermined answers or the pretense of knowing more than the people who built the organization. The firm brings a structured methodology, a candid outside perspective, and the operational experience to distinguish what works from what merely looks good on paper.
Engagements are tailored to the client, from focused project-based work to ongoing advisory relationships. The objective in either case is the same: meaningful, lasting improvement in how the organization executes.
What We Believe
We operate with these core principles:
Partnership Over Transactions
Practical Over
Theoretical
Advocacy Over Administration
Anticipation Over Reaction
The guidance we offer is grounded in having done the work, not studied it.
The measure of a successful engagement is a lasting relationship, not a completed transaction.
The owner's interest drives every decision, from the first conversation to the final deliverable.
Experience reveals what's coming before it arrives. That's where problems get solved.
Representative Projects
Judicial Facility Renovation & Expansion
$108M, Fairfax, Virginia
Luxury Resort & Residential Development
$130M, Big Sky, Montana
Design-Build Correctional Facility
$55M, Pahrump, Nevada
Office-to-Apartment Conversion
$53M, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Boutique Hotel Development
$12M, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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