Construction
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Updated CertainTeed CurbAppeal App Brings Home Exterior Options To Life
When it comes to picking out important new features for the exterior of your home, nothing is more useful than an accurate vision of how it will look in real life. And with the latest upgrade to CertainTeed’s user-friendly CurbAppeal app for iPad iOS 7.0 or later, you no longer have a good excuse for belaboring…
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Building Expert And Well-Rounded Marketer Join Bernardon Haber Holloway
A growing Kennett Square architecture and design firm has included the talent of two new team members into its blueprint for success. Bernardon Haber Holloway recently hired an architect with plan examination and building code expertise as well as a multi-faceted marketer, according to a company announcement this week. “This unique combination of credentials will…
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Skill Of Oxford Electrician Andrew Golder Sparks National Award
An apprentice electrician from Oxford lit up a national skill competition by suppressing the risk of electrocution. Last month The Tri-M Group‘s Andrew Golder brought a top safety award in commercial and industrial electrical skills home from Florida, where he excelled in one of 15 competitions during the Associated Builders and Contractors National Craft Championships.…
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Epic Futuristic Experience Coming To Philly For Saint-Gobain’s 350th
The wonders of the past and the secrets of the future will converge in a must-see sensory experience coming to Philly in celebration of the legendary building materials company now moving its headquarters to Fraser. To mark 350 years, Saint-Gobain is hosting the free exhibition “Future Sensations” at The Oval located on the northwest end of Philadelphia’s…
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Bentley Homes Bringing Luxury To Apartment Living
Who says luxury can’t live in a small space? Seizing on a trend of downsizing Baby Boomers accustomed to the finer things in life and aspiring millennials with lofty expectations, renowned Chester County builder Bentley Homes is planning to put its signature luxury touch of “custom features and distinctive finishing touches” on a new 320-apartment development…
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Kate Brennan Joins Bernardon Haber Holloway Architects
Kate Brennan has joined Bernardon Haber Holloway Architects as its business development director. “We are extremely pleased to add Kate to our team of talented professionals at Bernardon Haber Holloway Architects,” said Bill Holloway, a principal at the firm. “Kate brings a wealth of knowledge regarding the design and development industry in the Delaware Valley…
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Brian Crookston Is Young Engineer Of The Year
A local man who believes that “the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success” was named Young Engineer of the Year during Delaware Valley Engineers Week Feb. 20-28 in Philadelphia. Brian Crookston has worked for the West Chester firm Schnabel Engineering since 2011.…
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Did You Know?
Wayne-based Saint-Gobains is Philadelphia’s oldest company or institution. So says the folks at Philadelphia Business Journal who placed the company at the top of their list of the Delaware Valley’s longest surviving businesses published on January 30th. No other Chester County companies or institutions made the list. The Wayne-based manufacturer and distributor of construction materials…
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Rapid Bridge Project Includes Two Chester County Bridges; J.D. Eckman, Inc. Among Contractors
Two Chester County bridges will be replaced in 2016 under the Pennsylvania Rapid Bridge Replacement Project. They are the Ewing Road Middle Bridge which spans White Clay Creek in London Grove Township near West Grove, and the Brandywine Manor Bridge on Indian Run Drive, West Brandywine Township, over Indian Run. Bids are due in August,…
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West Chester Business Alliance Pushing Off-The-Table Plaza Development
An alliance of business leaders and West Chester residents has banded together to champion an unofficial redevelopment plan for a public plaza and five-story office complex at the very visible former Mosteller site downtown — even though the idea comes from a sketch and is not one of three formal plans proposed by builder Eli…
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International Builders’ Show Spotlights CertainTeed Innovation
A brand moving from the fringe to one of Chester County’s hubs of activity recently took center stage at the International Builders’ Show. CertainTeed was spotlighted for its expertise in the evolution of moisture control for new homes. The brand is a subsidiary of Saint-Gobain, which will soon move into new corporate headquarters in Frazer. “We use…
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Latest Planned Coatesville Development Could Be Catalyst
The much-anticipated breakthrough redevelopment project in Coatesville could be a block-long transformation of the former Lipkin furniture store into street-level retail stores and 44 market-rate apartments. Not far from the Coatesville Flats — the subject of much redevelopment discussion — a $15 million to $17 million development idea is taking shape thanks to Legend Properties and…
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Coatesville Advances Train Station Project With New Graphic Renderings
A visual depiction of the proposed new Coatesville train station and career training and education center released last week adds to the excitement about future development in a city in need of revitalization. A streetscape, exterior renderings and an interior layout are all part of the latest announcement by the Coatesville Redevelopment Authority. They feature “a…
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Hankin Group Loses Bid To Redevelop Willow Grove Naval Base
Local Chester County real estate development firm the Hankin Group recently lost out to California-based national developer Catellus for the chance to redevelop the 862-acre shuttered Willow Grove Naval Air Station into “1,486 residential units, an office park, a town center, a golf course, an aviation museum, a middle school, a retirement community, a hotel and conference…
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Coatesville Redevelopment Caught In A Catch-22
Coatesville is caught in a catch-22 with respect to redeveloping the Coatesville Flats and beyond. As state Sen. Andy Dinniman put it in a recent Daily Local News article, “the development community wants the train station to come in before moving forward with a project, while PennDOT says they won’t build a station unless development comes…
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New Development Is In The Works Near Magnolia Place In Kennett Square
The Daily Local News is reporting construction on a new development that will complement Victory Brewing Co. and Magnolia Place will begin this spring on the former site of Sunny Dell Foods in Kennett Square. Kennett Township and Kennett Square Borough are cooperating to fast-track the four-building multi-use construction project, which includes a restaurant, office…
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Malvern Luxury Home Building Brothers Keep Growing
Buying stray lots with tough topology, typically at the end of a cul-de-sac in a nice neighborhood, a small friends-of-the-family investment and parents willing to co-sign a loan so he could get financing for his first construction project, was all Todd Pohlig needed in 1974 to launch a custom home construction business that would become…
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Balfour Beatty Sustainability Coordinator Joins National Apartment Association Task Force
Balfour Beatty Communities, the Malvern-based multi-family housing and community developer, announced last week that Hayley King, sustainability coordinator for Balfour Beatty Communities, has joined the National Apartment Association’s (NAA) Operations Task Force Committee. King’s membership on the task force is seen by the company as strengthening the relationship and collaboration between NAA and Balfour Beatty…
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