Biz Buzz: $three.2-million contract for Smith-Midland

Fauquier-based Smith-Midland Corp. has won a $three.2-million contract to provide “sound absorptive and reflective noise walls” for the Interstate 395 Express Lane venture in Northern Virginia.

The deal to provide proprietary “SoftSound” panels represents a continuation of Smith-Midland’s contract for 23 miles of its J-J Hooks precast concrete protection barrier for the venture.

Civil Wall Solutions, a department of Lane Construction, gained the $336-million design/construct contract for the eight-mile venture in Arlington and Fairfax counties.

“This will represent the latest in a long line of successful noise wall projects across our market area,” stated Smith-Midland President Ashley Smith. “The continued success of our SoftSound product speaks to our customers’ ongoing satisfaction with its superior quality.”

SoftSound, which the corporate’s Easi-Set Worldwide subsidiary produces, is a proprietary subject matter, molded and compressed to fulfill the required technical and aesthetic necessities, Mr. Smith stated. It combines a extremely specialised mineralized combination with cement as a binder in a selected production procedure.

Headquartered in Midland, the corporate develops, manufactures and sells an array of precast concrete merchandise for use essentially within the development, transportation and utilities industries. Smith-Midland has 3 production plans situated in Southern Fauquier, Reidsville, N.C., and Columbia, S.C.

Large pet-sitting enterprise offered

The possession of My Pet’s Friend LLC, a big pet-setting enterprise in Warrenton, will exchange arms April 1.

Company founder Beth Whistler has offered the enterprise to Melissa Macias of Warrenton.

Today’s announcement follows a complete monetary assessment of the corporate and its operations resulting in the settlement.

Ms. Whistler in 2009 began with simply two shoppers and herself as the only real puppy sitter. The enterprise has grown to greater than 450 shoppers and a staff unbiased contractor sitters.

My Pet’s Friend, LLC stands because the premier puppy sitting and canine strolling corporate within the area. The corporate is absolutely approved, insured, and bonded to perform inside Fauquier County.

Ms. Macias, the brand new proprietor of My Pet’s Friend, retired in 2017 after a protracted profession with the U.S. Air Force and the government as a enterprise and intelligence analyst. She earned a bachelor’s stage in strategic intelligence and a grasp’s in enterprise management. Ms. Macias and her husband, Richard, have lived in Warrenton for greater than 12 years.

Coincidently, she used to be My Pet’s Friend’s first shopper on Ms. Whistler’s first day of commercial.

“I’ve been so impressed with the way My Pet’s Friend has been managed during my nine years as a client, that I decided to buy the company,” Ms. Macias stated.

Terms of the sale weren’t disclosed.

Fauquier Economic Summit subsequent Thursday

The first Fauquier Economic Summit will happen Thursday morning, April five, on the county airport close to Midland.

The Fauquier Chamber of Commerce will host the development, “Exploring the Art of the Possible for pros within the building, actual property, investments, finance, aviation, tourism, business, trade, engineering, era sectors.

The summit will run from eight to 10 a.m. The admission price of $20 according to individual features a catered breakfast. Click right here to sign up or for additional info.

Topics will come with:
• Commercial and business building alternatives in Fauquier’s 8 carrier districts.
• Resources for a success results.
• Incentives for era, protection manufacturing, tourism and “inexperienced” building.
• An review of the deliberate new airport terminal.
• Rainwater harvesting for business and home potable water.

The audio system might be:
• Miles Friedman, county financial building director.
• Tom Wisemiller, Warrenton’s financial building supervisor.
• David Darrah, the Warrenton-Fauquier airport director.
• Ralph Crafts, a neighborhood entrepreneur, philanthropist and sustainability proponent.

“The inaugural economic summit will highlight the many new opportunities for commerce and industry in the county,” chamber President Joe Martin stated. “We have shovel- and occupancy-ready websites; our regional personnel is forged, and the standard of lifestyles here’s uniquely delightful.

“The county board of supervisors has just lately funded a number of business-friendly projects together with broadband, utilities infrastructure, public college training will increase and the brand new airport terminal.”

Mr. Crafts has donated an afternoon commute for 4 to Martha’s Vineyard on his non-public jet because the door prize.

Free activity truthful April four at LFCC

A unfastened activity truthful, that includes representatives from greater than 25 companies, will happen four to six p.m. on Wednesday, April four, on the Lord Fairfax Community College simply south of Warrenton.

The Virginia Employment Commission will be offering unfastened resume and interview etiquette elegance from three to four p.m. LFCC Workforce Solutions and The Fauquier Chamber will sponsor the activity truthful.
 
Participating employers come with Appleton Campbell, CDS Tractor Trailer Training, Culpeper Medical Center, Demolition Services Inc., Fauquier County executive, Fauquier County Public Schools, Fauquier Health, Genesis Home Improvement, Long and Foster Real Estate, McCrea Equipment Co., Micron Technology Inc., Moo Thru, My Plumber Heating and Cooling, Payne’s Parking Designs Inc., Powers Farm & Brewery, Puffenbarger Insurance and Financial Services Inc., Ruston Paving Co. Inc., Savory Fare Catering, Shirley Contracting Co. LLC, Superior Paving Corp., TechFlow Inc., Visiting Angels and William A. Hazel.
 
Attendees are inspired to decorate to provoke and produce copies in their resumes. They would possibly sign up on-line at LFCCWorkforce.com/JOBS.
https://lfccworkforce.com/tournament/spring-job-fair/
 
Workforce Solutions and Continuing Education at LFCC be offering enterprise, skilled building and proceeding training classes and credentials related to in-demand jobs.

For extra details about the truthful, seek advice from lfcc.edu/truthful.

For extra details about Workforce Solutions, name 540-868-7021, or seek advice from http://lfccworkforce.com.

Solar workshop April 13

A unfastened “Solar Planning Workshop” will happen from nine a.m. to midday Friday, April 13, close to Remington.

The Rappahannock-Rapidan Regional Commission and Piedmont Environmental Council will provide the workshop to offer views from native governments, state and regional companies, and non-profit organizations on more than a few subjects associated with making plans for solar power in Virginia’s Piedmont area.

It will happen within the American Legion Post 247 construction at 11420 James Madison Highway, north of Remington.

The schedule contains audio system from the Solar Research Institute, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, the Virginia Association of Counties, native governments and the PEC.

Click right here for additional info or to sign up.