Virginia Helicopter Hangar with Hydraulic Door Wins NFBA Award
Fuog/InterBuild Inc. is no stranger to winning National Frame Building Association awards. During the last two decades, the Purcellville, Va., construction company has garnered four first-place awards for Building of the Year and numerous other second- and third-place awards. The Fuog/InterBuild reputation has also garnered the company “Superior Sales and Service” and “Foreman of the Year” recognition.
Fuog/InterBuild won the 2017 Building of the Year award for Commercial Buildings Under 5,000 square feet, for a privately-owned helicopter hangar in rural Purcellville, Va.
Hangar owner Chuck Kuhn worked with Fuog/InterBuild to design the post-fame barn-style hangar that really stands out with a Schweiss Doors hydraulic one-piece 55-foot by 16-foot designer door. The exterior Hardie Plank cladding covering the hydraulic door features a faux porch and sliding door lock. A stronger lift system was incorporated for the additional 7,100 pounds of wood cladding on the door. The interior of the door is clad with trimmed out metal panel. Four decorative tinted windows, two with awnings, make the hangar door stand out even more.
Other unique features of the hangar include an interior finish of board-and-batten siding walls with Berridge A-Panel. The vaulted ceiling has 1x6-inch tongue-and-groove woodwork. A high loft with four windows provides suitable daylighting into the hangar, which hosts offices for the pilot and in-flight manager.
Garland LaRue, project manager for Fuog/InterBuild, discovered Schweiss Doors through an Internet search and said the hangar owner loved the hydraulic door.
“I think the quality of construction of the hydraulic door is wonderful,” LaRue says. “We definitely would use it again and recommend it to others. It was also easy to install, the shipping of it and customer service was great on all points. Brent and Jeremy at Schweiss were very helpful.”
