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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...

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 ...
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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, ...

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