Category: Project Experience
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Boost Your Business: Key Insights Into Commercial Renovations
Renovating your commercial space can be both exciting and daunting. A commercial renovation allows you to improve functionality and modernize or improve your place of work. These changes can have a marked and positive impact on your organization’s operations, from bolstering employee morale to boosting customer perception. However, a lot is riding on making the…
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Fieldstone at Chester Springs – October 2023 Update
After a summer full of hard work from our incredible team, partners, and subcontractors, big changes were made at VantagePoint Retirement Living’s Fieldstone at Chester Springs! Horst Construction’s Project Manager Zach Weil and VantagePoint’s Marketing Director, Kate Sammler take us for a quick tour inside. Not only will you see the project’s progress, but we…
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Oakhurst Cottage: Optimizing A Timeless Mount Gretna Hideaway
Nestled among the towering trees, mountain laurels, and rhododendron, Oakhurst Cottage welcomes visitors with a bright wrap-around porch and a dormer window rising from a hip-style roof. 19th-century details abound throughout this quaint two-story home, from original windows and doors to the finishes inside. In 2020, the Schroeders purchased this property, located right in…
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Fieldstone at Chester Springs – June 2023 Update
For this month’s project update video at VantagePoint Retirement Living’s Fieldstone at Chester Springs, we had a lunch celebration to gather the entire team, including the subcontractors, client, design team, and those involved in the financing of the project. Join us for a quick, behind-the-scenes update into how the project is progressing with Horst Construction’s…
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How Design-Build Minimizes Risks & Burdens for Our Clients
The design-build project delivery method has become the option of choice for most construction projects in recent years. In addition to consistently delivering projects more quickly and for less money compared to methods like design-bid-build[i], the approach also has two major benefits for project owners: it reduces their risk and burden. In this blog, we’ll…
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Fieldstone at Chester Springs – April 2023 Update
The building’s footprint is now clearly established and the steel is starting to be erected at VantagePoint Retirement Living’s Fieldstone at Chester Springs! Join us for a behind-the-scenes look into the construction work as our team creates this new senior living community. Project Manager Zach Weil is joined by VantagePoint’s Marketing Director, Kate Sammler for…
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Fieldstone at Chester Springs – February 2023 Update
Work is well underway at VantagePoint Retirement Living’s newest senior living community, Fieldstone at Chest Springs. Join us for an inside look at the construction of this new senior living community as Project Manager Zach Weil gives us an update on the progress. Then, he’ll meet with Project Manager Doug Wilson from B.R. Kreider &…
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Team Breaks Ground on New Senior Community in Chester Springs
On October 19, 2022, members from Vantage Point Retirement Living, Kimmel Bogrette Architecture + Site, Elevate, and Horst Construction gathered on an empty plot of land in Chester Springs, PA. This group represented key members of the project team responsible for creating the area’s newest senior living community, Fieldstone at Chester Springs. With shovels in…
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7 Things to Look For in a Preconstruction Partner
When choosing a team for a construction project, much of the focus is placed on their ability to manage the construction phase. With boots on the ground and hammers to nails, there’s no arguing that having a capable team during this stage is essential. However, success in the construction phase is dependent on what comes before:…
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Meadowcrest at Middletown Time-Lapse – Horst Construction
In October of 2019, the project team for Vantage Point Retirement Living’s new senior living community kicked off with a groundbreaking ceremony. From there, the construction team began building this 163,000-square-foot facility. Like so many others in the construction industry at this time, the team at Meadowcrest diligently worked together, rising above the challenges of…