Business View Magazine | September 2020

184 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2020 is rated 40R. “The building still breathes, but it’s a fairly tight building and is very easy to keep comfortable in all the zones that we have,” he asserts. The terminal also has a rooftop rainwater harvesting system for potable drinking water, although the system is not yet completely functional. Darrah explains: “We’re not actually delivering water to our system for public drinking because the state has no regulations to support drinking rainwater harvesting in a public fashion. So, we are helping them to develop the regulations and we’re also helping them to develop the filtration system that they require for public waterworks. We’re getting close to getting the second piece of that done, which is the filtration system. The legislation piece takes a little bit longer. We do have the tank installed in the building; it’s ready to go once we get the filtration system in and the regulations are done. We’re working off of well water for the time being. Once that well water comes in, it will also go through that filtration system and make it even better.” “And we also designed the building to be environmentally-friendly to our neighbors,” Darrah adds. “We have a small town just to our northwest of us called Midland; it’s mostly farm area, so we wanted to be environmentally- friendly to them in terms of the energy and water that we use. That’s why we went with the types of utilities we did.” The outside of the Airport’s new terminal is a blend of the old and the new. “One of the things we tried to do when we worked with Syd was to capture old Virginia and old Fauquier, which is wine and horse country,” Darrah mentions. “Part of the building is brick and I asked it to be Thomas Jefferson’s brick – the same style as that on Monticello, Jefferson’s home in Charlottesville. Then, when you look over to the other part of the building, it’s aluminum, so you transition into the modern. It says we’re a forward-thinking county and a forward-thinking Airport Director, Dave Darrah