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ENR Announces Top 20 Under 40 in the Mid-Atlantic Region
ENR Announces Top 20 Under 40 in the Mid-Atlantic Region
Engineering News Record (ENR) has named Charles ...
Best of Houzz Awards – The Gaines Group receives the honor for a second year in a row.
Best of Houzz Awards - The Gaines Group receives the honor for a second year in a row.
The Gaines Group, PLC ...
Dayton Home
Establish a site.
Identify the problems in the existing home that need addressed in the new ...
Ceiling Fans – Cool Product Update!
A ceiling fan allows you to reduce the use of your traditional heating and cooling system and still live ...
Beginners guide to green terms
Ambient lighting: Lighting in an area from any source that produces general illumination, as opposed to task ...
Air Sealing is the First Step to Energy Efficiency: Caulk is the Answer
The first step to air sealing a home to achieve maximum energy efficiency is to understand which caulk to use in ...
The Gaines Group 2012 in Review
As 2012 draws to a close I sit here thinking about what we have accomplished at Gaines Group architects, what we ...
Design of a Home: A Process of Discovery
Every client makes decisions differently and every project evolves in a unique fashion. However for the design of ...
Harrisonburg Bikram Yoga Studio design
We were contacted by a small business owner in Harrisonburg that wanted to start a new venture in town. I was ...
All I want for Christmas – Reblog from 2010 – Nothing has Changed
Looking back over past blogs and thinking about the future I came across this wish list from 2010 that I posted. ...
Design for the future – a call to action
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." ~ John ...
My journey with Climate Change as an architect. Trying to find a design solution to save the world.
In 1994 I started my career as an architectural student at a University focused on sustainable design. We did not ...