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Unlocking Energy Efficiency: How Energy Modeling Supports Adaptive Reuse
Adaptive reuse of both modern and historic buildings is a powerful strategy for sustainable development—it preserves cultural heritage while reducing the environmental ...
Blogs, Featured Properties
A Mystery Afoot: Flaming Flooring at Historic Hawley-Hutzler
Why do these floorboards on two sides of a zig zag line look so different? One side of the line has all ...
Blogs, Resources
Design vs. Draft: Unraveling What Exactly an Architect Does
Sometimes we get a call for work, and the potential client says, “I need someone to draft some plans”. We can tell ...
Blogs, Featured Properties, Resources
Menokin: Fiercely Ambitious 18th Century Historic Construction
The Wall Street Journal called the Menokin project “…the most fiercely ambitious historic restoration project in America today.” The project includes stabilizing ...
Blogs, Featured Properties, Resources
RE-thinking Restoration, Renovation & Rehabilitation of Historic Buildings
The terms we use for describing the work we do on historic buildings can be a bit complex and confusing to say ...
Blogs, Featured Properties
Masonry Mystery at Historic Menokin
At the Historic Menokin house, a national Historic Landmark in Warsaw, VA, a mystery is unfolding. The home of Francis Lightfoot Lee, ...