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BARC Electric Cooperative Calls on Mather Architects
BARC Electric Cooperative calls on Mather Architects for a renovation project in Rockbridge County. Headquartered in Millboro, Virginia, BARC is a member-owned electric cooperative that provides electric and broadband service to roughly 13,000 connections across five...
Summer Intern
Mather Architects adds a Summer Intern from Cal Poly Meet our summer intern, Sarah Rhea. Having finished her first year at California Polytechnic State University, SLO, Sarah is happy to join Mather Architects for the summer to begin applying what she’s learning at...
Rebecca Penrod Named 2020 Ambassador of the Year
Rebecca Penrod Named Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce Ambassador of the Year! Rebecca not only works tirelessly for the development of our firm but the entire business community throughout Harrisonburg and Rockingham County. If you know Rebecca, you know...
Mather Selected to Help with Rockingham Eye Physicians and Associates New Facility
We are pleased to announce that we have been selected to provide construction drawings for the Rockingham Eye Physicians and Associates new facility. Working with Marasco & Associates, Inc, a healthcare architectural and consulting firm out of Denver, CO., we are...
Adaptive Reuse Projects, Why Bother?
Adaptive reuse refers to the process of reusing an existing building for a purpose other than which it was originally built or designed for. Adaptive reuse projects preserve what is best about a building, but design and develop them into a more modern and usable...
Benefits of Glue-Laminated Construction
Gluelam, Why we use it...Glue-laminated beams and arches are made using layers of wood that are laminated together to form large elements that can span great distances. These are then installed as a structural system of the building. There are a few options to...
HR-CSB McNulty Center
Construction at McNulty Center is moving with leaps and bounds. On the exterior, finishes are complete and only minimal grading is left on the to-do list. One of our main objectives with the exterior of this project was to blend the new addition as smoothly as...
New and Different Times
We are all in a New and Different timeWe have concerns about our health and the health of those around us, we have concerns about our businesses and organizations, and there is just uncertainty as to when things get back to “normal”. But here is...
HR Community Services Board-Let’s Build!
The last month has seen great progress on the Harrisonburg-Rockingham County Community Services board project with both the Main Street and Washington Street sites a flurry of activity. Construction is underway! On Washington Street, the McNulty parking...
Mather Partners with Sunnyside for Wellness
Mather Architects Partners with Sunnyside for Wellness With its’ roots in hospital design in the 1950s, Senior Living has come a long way! The old nursing home was essentially a hospital “light”. We have evolved as an industry to now be more aligned with the...