Hurt & Proffitt participated in the groundbreaking event for the new Center for Advanced Engineering and Research (CAER) facility, located in Virginia’s Region 2000 area, which took place on Friday, November 6th. The CAER facility is made possible in part due to a $7.6M award from the Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission. It will be designed to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards for New Construction certification.
H&P is the civil engineering firm involved in the construction of the 25,000 SF industry-focused regional research and development center located in the New London Business and Technology Center on U.S. 460 in Bedford, VA. Our engineers that participated in the CAER groundbreaking ceremony were Project Manager P. Scott Beasley, PE, LEED AP; CEO Wiley V. “Bif” Johnson, III, PE; and Vice President Patrick C. Proffitt, PE.
H&P has worked closely with the design team and the Bedford Economic Development Authority to develop the CAER facility site within the overall park development. Our firm has also worked on the master planning phase of the New London Business and Technology Center leading up to this project.