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Harrisonburg Aging in Place Round Table

Halloween Costumes over the years – which do you think is best?

Always an interesting time of year. What are your favorite things to pretend to be? Here are some of our Halloween Costumes over the years – which do you think is best?
Goose Creek Apartments

Goose Creek Apartments in Fishersville, Va – Project Update

Goose Creek Apartments in Fishersville, Va is a community with scenic views of the Blue Ridge Mountains in every direction. Adjacent to the Murphy Deming College Health Sciences and a 1/2 mile from August Health, this community has everything. Apartments have stainless steel...
Blue Ridge Area Food Bank

Blue Ridge Area Food Bank – Project Done

Blue Ridge Area Food Bank The Blue Ridge Area Food Bank project has finished. Sure there are a few minor punch list items, but the job is done and the facility is back up and running strong. We started with a goal to add warehouse space, vegetable storage space, and to provide...
Penn Laird Custom Home

Green Term Defined: Window

A casement is a window that is attached to the frame on the side with one or more hinges. They are more air tight than double hung windows due to the door like construction. The windows are often operated with a crank or lever. A double-hung window is one that has two sashes that...
chesapeake western depot

Chesapeake Western Depot – Project Update

Work continues to progress on the Chesapeake Western Depot. The brick restoration has started and the roof is being replaced. Work on the office portion of the building will continue once we have permit for that phase of the project. The building was in rough shape due to a fire...
Harrisonburg custom home

Buildings are complicated – so is code compliance

Buildings are the most complicated machine that the average person has to operate. Trying to figure out how to put a building together, make it beautiful, comply with all aspects of building code, and meet client expectations for budget, timeline, and aesthetics is the most...
Harmony Square Dairy Queen

Harmony Square Dairy Queen – Project Update Part 3

Read our progress on the Harmony Square Dairy Queen here: Part 1  –  Part 2  –  Part 4  –  Part 5 Work continues on the new Dairy Queen at Harmony Square shopping center in Harrisonburg. This new DQ building will provide more seating than the store that has been...
Custom farmhouse

Perhaps the most exciting part of the custom home project – ground breaking

Work has started on another high-efficiency custom farmhouse in Rockingham County. Perhaps the most exciting part of the custom home project is the ground breaking. This new project is being built by Beck Builders. The excavation has just started on this incredible dream site....
karst topography

Green Term Defined: Karst Topography

Karst Topography is an area of irregular limestone in which erosion has produced fissures, sinkholes, underground streams, and caverns.
Construct Show

CSI is the organization that shapes communication within the industry

I joined CSI in 2003 and became very active in my local chapter - Central Virginia CSI. In my second year as a member, I was elected as a Chapter Director and also served as the Academic Liaison, Electronic Communications Chair, and on the education and hospitality committees....