Archive for 'Architecture, Engineering & Construction'

Two New Paths to Connect Liberty University to Wards Road in Lynchburg

Issue: August 2011 by .

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College students returning to Lynchburg this year will be welcomed with the construction of two new paths connecting the campus of Liberty University to Wards Road and its many business vendors. After three and a half years of discussion and planning, construction is underway for the creation of a new pedestrian tunnel underneath the set [...]

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CJMW Architecture—Restoring History, Encouraging Art

Issue: July 2011 by .

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Years before Lynchburg’s art galleries started opening their doors to visitors on the first Friday evening of each month, a Main Street architecture firm was hosting its own “First Fridays” to showcase local artwork. Shortly after September 11, 2001, local photographer Steve Coates and Emmett Lifsey, a principal at CJMW Architecture, were talking about a [...]

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CAER Close to Completion

Issue: June 2011 by .

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No ribbons have been cut and no official grand opening has been held yet, but the Center for Advanced Engineering and Research (CAER) in Bedford County, which Region 2000 officials hope will become the hub of nuclear and engineering designs and wireless technologies, will soon be ready to open its doors. “It’s practically finished,” Bob [...]

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5th Street: At the Heart of It

Issue: May 2011 by .

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If you have major artery blockage around your heart, the doctor will operate, try to repair the damage, build and replace where needed and put you on a healthy plan of diet and exercise. The same can be said of 5th Street. Fifth Street is the main artery into mid-town Lynchburg. According to city traffic [...]

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Centra Inn: A Place for Loved Ones to Stay

Issue: April 2011 by .

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Imagine you have a college-age child going to school in another state. You get a call late one night that he was involved in a serious accident and was rushed to the hospital. In a panic, you take whatever means necessary to be by his side. When you arrive at the hospital, you are shown [...]

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Upscale Spa or Dentist Office? These Days, It’s Hard to Tell

Issue: March 2011 by .

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There seems to be an innate fear in the general population that is triggered with one word: dentist. Is it the inevitable neon lighting in the quiet stiff waiting rooms? Or is it the wall of files with their colored tabs behind the window that closely resembles the clerk check in at the Division of [...]

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Digital Nuclear Power Plant Main Room Control Simulator: Big Name, Modern Results

Issue: February 2011 by .

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Central Virginia’s high-tech industries and universities will soon have a new research and development tool at their disposal: a digital nuclear power plant main room control simulator. It’s a mouthful but, in short, the simulator will be an exact model of the control room one might expect to find at a next-generation nuclear power plant. [...]

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Liberty University’s New Tower Theater is an Architectural Work of Art

Issue: January 2011 by .

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Contemporary, classy, warm and embracing are all words people are using to describe Liberty University’s new Tower Theater, according to Linda Nell Cooper, director of the Theatre Arts Department. The project began in November of 2008 when Cooper met with Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr., and did a walk-through of the pre-existing tower on the north [...]

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Ronnie’s Haircuts and Styles: Cutting Out a Spot on Main Street

Issue: November 2010 by .

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Ronnie Stemmer, Jr., stands in the doorway of his new barber shop at the south corner of 11th and Main Streets in downtown Lynchburg. It’s a few minutes after 10 a.m. and he remarks that traffic seems a little light, although admittedly it’s Columbus Day and a lot of folks are off work for the [...]

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GCEP, CAER helping make Lynchburg attractive to high-tech companies

Issue: October 2010 by .

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When he first heard about the Commonwealth Graduate Engineering Program (CGEP), Bill Phister was a young engineer working for The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W). It was 1986. An actor was in the White House, Bill Buckner was on first base and everyone, it seemed, wanted a Cabbage Patch Kid. What Phister wanted, however, was [...]

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