Heritage Restoration, Inc. is an historic building restoration, maintenance and preservation contractor. HRI specializes in design, project planning, general contracting, milling, reproduction, and window & door restoration.
Why historic buildings? Historic buildings require expertise, not a headless hand. Traditional building techniques are a challenge requiring specific, diverse craft skills. HRI is experienced in old buildings; sustainability; energy efficiency; systems retrofit; troubleshooting; general maintenance.
GREEN?
Responsible stewardship in historic preservation is inherently green. Historic buildings are "embodied energy", which represents the initial energy expended for construction , as well as a lower recurring energy for maintenance. Sustainable building practices in historic buildings leave a better tomorrow. Energy efficiency, building performance and architectural integrity are a science, and our practice.
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How Heritage predicts the unpredictable
Experience. Good client to contractor communication. Accurate and weekly updated cost tracking.
Historic buildings are an evolution of layers. Buildings evolve through cultural whims, general maintenance and physical alterations. Heritage Restoration, Inc. seeks to understand the building through pre-contract investigations, on-going project analysis and most importantly, listening and understanding the desires of the client. The key is balancing need versus want, intent versus budget. Balancing the owner's intent with the building's needs requires good communication and an even better project plan.
Planning Intent Discovery Budgets
Every project starts with a good plan. Historic preservation is not inherently expensive, but a poor plan is. A client's intent and the building's need require balance. Historic building preservation, restoration and maintenance presents several challenges. Restraint is high on the list, since historic buildings deserve (and often need) good quality, well thought, sustainable work. HRI can investigate a building's need through discovery, develop more thorough scopes of work and realistic project budgets. Looking out for the building, the client and the budget is hard work.
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We understand old buildings. From interpretation, to sympathetic design, to construction. Heritage Restoration, Inc. has the experience your project deserves. Don't take it from us, just look at our previous projects or ask our past clients.
Hog Wash! They are not!
HRI respects materials and craftsmenship that lasts for decades or centuries. The right combination of quality materials and craftsmanship are the ingredients to sustainable, cost efficient building ownership. There are many reasons old buildings are still around, but it is certainly not from cheap materials, shoddy craftsmanship or neglect.
Historic buildings have proven their longevity, sustainability and quality. Historic buildings deserve a qualified assessment, competent workmanship and materials. HRI specializes in the analysis, manipulation and retrofitting of new into a historic building.