Harman Construction

Before the demolition or dump trucks. There's a direct link between project success and preconstruction efforts. Modeling, scheduling, estimating, and team selection-we tailor the latest technology to meet your project needs. As the great basketball coach John Wooden said, "Failing to prepare is preparing to fail." It's a statement with universal relevance to virtually every endeavor. You may have even heard this statement from your math teacher back in high school. At Harman, we believe this statement holds particular importance in construction, where your business or organization's success is in our hands.

For those projects that require the highest level of coordination, bringing Harman on board as the Construction Manager is the right choice. Most often used in the public-sector, the private-sector is quickly discovering the benefits of construction management. By bringing us in at the beginning, we can work with you and your architect to deliver benefits not available in a traditional general contracting situation. And, if you need help finding the right architect for your building type, we can help you with that too.

LEED is what many people think of when they hear green building. Some industries dictate new buildings meet the Certified, Silver, Gold, or Platinum level. In fact, LEED is often used as a way to market to your customers and showcase your company's commitment to environmental stewardship. What you might not realize is your project doesn't need a LEED certificate to be green. There are many options and elements that can enhance your building's performance while limiting environmental impact. For example, choosing to renovate your existing space or finding a new one to fix up are much greener options than building new.

Harman Construction is a design-build general contractor made up of about 65 individuals-20 in our Harrisonburg office and 45 working in the field. Though our backgrounds and interests differ, you'll find common themes of family, faith, and pride in our work run strong throughout our company. We come together under the example of our leadership, upholding the Valley tradition of hard work grounded in fairness and integrity. This common ground has led to a steady growth over Harman's nearly 50 year history.

Design-Build has inherent advantages: single-source delivery, enhanced communication, greater cost control, improved risk management, and compressed schedule. Harman Design-Build gives you an added benefit of allowing you to test out our waters before diving in. It's the stuff that goes on behind the scenes. Before the demolition or dump trucks. There's a direct link between project success and preconstruction efforts. Modeling, scheduling, estimating, and team selection-we tailor the latest technology to meet your project needs.

Re-working an existing space-whether straight renovation or historic restoration-can be challenging stuff. Flexibility is the key to making an existing building work for your modern facility needs. It is the rare exception that a renovation doesn't uncover something unexpected. We won't even need to use the majority of our solutions that this type of agile thinking produces, but it is what gives you the results you're after. On top of the enormous amount of flexibility renovations require, Historic Restorations also require a great deal of rigidity.