Posted on April 13, 2012 by webmaster No Comments

Last month, the KBS Institute hosted David Stowell and Larry Roberts with Slurry Pavers to educate our team on soil stabilization. The presentation offered insight into alternative earthwork operation when Mother Nature simply doesn’t cooperate. Our Virginia State Police Driver Training Facility project in Blackstone...[read more]

Posted on March 6, 2012 by webmaster No Comments

In early spring 2011, KBS was awarded the NAPA Distribution Center Expansion project to provide 30,000 square feet of finished material storage space meeting the auto parts retailer’s growing demands. A key scheduling factor was the coordination of jobsite space to allow sufficient space to...[read more]

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Administrator 2 Comments

By Jim Benn, Senior Project Manager for KBS. (Adapted from an article written for the March 2011 edition of Commonwealth Contractor, a magazine printed by the Associated Builders and Contractors-Virginia Chapter) Rendering by SK&I Architect Design Group. Building 160 at the Yards circa 2008 In...[read more]

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Administrator No Comments

When KBS was just entering into LEED and the green building market, I was assigned to the CarMax Corporate Headquarters project to help with the documentation necessary for LEED certification. At that time, the Richmond marketplace was unaccustomed to the demands placed upon it for...[read more]