Blair Construction

Blair Construction In 1911, Blair Construction Founder Roy Blair kept his contracts in his head and his tools in the trunk of his car.

Our portfolio includes public and private schools, churches, municipal buildings, multi-unit residential buildings, medical facilities, and a multitude of industrial and advanced manufacturing facilities. Though we’ve expanded from one man and a toolbox to over 70 employees, we’ve never lost sight of what makes us so successful: an old-fashioned dedication to carrying our customers through a high-

quality, low-stress construction project. Owner Fred Blair continues in the footsteps of his father and grandfather by running a high-performing construction firm based on simple family values and long-standing business principles. Blair Construction has maintained those same small-town high standards while incorporating the latest industry advances in technology and safety. The proof of our success is in our relationships. Since 2010, Blair has completed over 500 projects. Eight in ten of those projects were based on existing client relationships. One beam at a time, Blair Construction has grown into one of the most successful and sought-after contractors in the Blue Ridge region.

Some of the buildings Blair has built aren't going to be featured in architecture magazines.They're warehouses and munic...
09/02/2026

Some of the buildings Blair has built aren't going to be featured in architecture magazines.

They're warehouses and municipal offices. Banks and community centers.

Service buildings and storage facilities that towns rely on without much fanfare.

Those buildings matter. They get used regularly by real people doing real work. They hold up, handle the load, and do what they're supposed to do.

Building something useful is its own kind of standard.

Wishing a happy birthday to our Blair team members celebrating in September:Travis Harris | September 3Brian Beer | Sept...
09/01/2026

Wishing a happy birthday to our Blair team members celebrating in September:

Travis Harris | September 3
Brian Beer | September 6
Teodoro Pereda-Juan | September 14
Fred Blair | September 15
Brooke McGhee | September 17
Gio'Vanni Navarra | September 17
Eugene Branch | September 20
Juan Zandoval Garcia | September 23
Scott McKee | September 24

We hope each of you has a great birthday!

Blair's work happens in places where logistics look different from one site to the next: rural roads, town centers, camp...
08/28/2026

Blair's work happens in places where logistics look different from one site to the next: rural roads, town centers, campuses, industrial parks, and community facilities across Southern Virginia.

The projects vary in size and type. The expectations don't.

The same attention to scheduling, quality, and communication that goes into a large campus job applies to a smaller town center build in Pittsylvania County.

That's what it means to work in this region, not just operate in it.

A lot of commercial buildings look good on opening day. The question is how they hold up a decade later.Loading dock doo...
08/27/2026

A lot of commercial buildings look good on opening day. The question is how they hold up a decade later.

Loading dock doors that get used hard, multiple times a day. Flooring that handles foot traffic from hundreds of people. Back-of-house corridors that see carts, equipment, and deliveries around the clock.

The materials, hardware, and construction methods chosen during the build determine how much maintenance a building takes down the road.

Those choices matter long after opening day.

08/26/2026

What you build today shouldn’t limit what you can build tomorrow.

Faith Memorial Baptist Church originally planned a gymnasium and classroom building together. After Blair budgeted the full scope, church leadership chose to move forward with the congregation’s top priority, the gym.

But building the gym first did not close the door on the classrooms. We positioned it so classroom space can be added along the south and east sides when the church is ready.

The completed 90-by-105-foot clear-span gym provides an open, column-free space for youth activities, church events, senior pickleball, and more. It includes a rubber athletic floor with game lines, folding basketball goals, a volleyball system, retractable bleachers for 300, 16 windows, LED high-bay lighting, and expanded parking.

When a project needs to happen in phases, the right time to plan for what comes next is before design begins.

Reach out to discuss your next project: https://blair-construction.com/contact/

When you're one of the largest American-owned medium transformer manufacturers in Virgina, demand on the power grid does...
08/25/2026

When you're one of the largest American-owned medium transformer manufacturers in Virgina, demand on the power grid doesn't wait, and neither can your production floor.

We completed a 105,000-square-foot fab shop addition for Delta Star at their Lynchburg campus, purpose-built to expand their transformer tank fabrication operations.

The design-build project features steel fiber-reinforced concrete floors engineered for heavy loads, nine bridge cranes ranging from 10 to 30 tons, and dedicated equipment pits. It also houses new offices, locker rooms, and a large open breakroom for a growing workforce.

Built for serious lifting, from day one.

There's a moment in every structural steel project when people start slowing down as they drive past.Before that moment,...
08/21/2026

There's a moment in every structural steel project when people start slowing down as they drive past.

Before that moment, a lot has to happen. The site has to be graded. Foundations have to be in and cured. Steel has to be fabricated, delivered, and sequenced. A crane has to be set.

By the time the frame starts rising, it reflects weeks of work that never made it into a photo.

When the structure takes shape, it's a good day on the jobsite.

Concrete doesn't wait. Once a pour starts, the clock is running. The mix has to be right, the weather has to cooperate, ...
08/20/2026

Concrete doesn't wait. Once a pour starts, the clock is running.

The mix has to be right, the weather has to cooperate, and every person on that crew has to be doing their part: finishing, leveling, placing, and working the concrete in the right sequence.

It's a lot of preparation for something that looks simple from a distance.

There's a reason experienced concrete crews are worth having. The work shows up in the slab for years.

The mechanical room isn't on the brochure. Neither is the electrical room, the equipment pad, the utility corridor, or t...
08/19/2026

The mechanical room isn't on the brochure. Neither is the electrical room, the equipment pad, the utility corridor, or the service dock.

But those spaces are what determine whether the front of the building works reliably.

When they're designed and built well, maintenance is manageable and systems stay accessible. When they're treated as secondary, you notice.

We take the back-of-house as seriously as the front of it.

A 3,000 square foot restaurant or retail build can be just as complex to coordinate as a project ten times its size.Mech...
08/18/2026

A 3,000 square foot restaurant or retail build can be just as complex to coordinate as a project ten times its size.

Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing all packed into a compact footprint. Drive-thru lanes with specific stacking distances. Hood systems, grease traps, walk-in coolers, and service access all fitting together without one trade getting in another's way.

The schedule pressure is real, too. Delays cost money for owners who are already counting down to opening day.

We've worked through enough of these to know what makes them go sideways and what keeps them on track.

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23020 U S Highway 29
Gretna, VA
24557

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Tuesday 7am - 5pm
Wednesday 7am - 5pm
Thursday 7am - 5pm
Friday 7am - 5pm

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