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K.W. Lambert Construction Co.

Bridgewater, VA 22812

Company Info

  • Est. 1974
  • Size 10-19 Employees
  • Annual Vol Undisclosed

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Our Story

Our founder, Kenneth W. Lambert (CGD, ME), was born in 1942 in Franklin, West Virginia.  Aside from schooling in industrial arts and electronics, he soon applied skills such as carpentry in derby car races, masonry for a residential contractor, drafting and HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) ingenuity for Westinghouse, and then large-scale commercial construction for the poultry industry.  Then, with his first patent already in hand, he struck out on his own, with his wife as bookkeeper, doing business as K. W. Lambert Construction Company. 

He purchased the family land in Bridgewater, Virginia and turned a cornfield and an apple orchard called Vinegar Hill into Fountainhead Subdivision.  In this subdivision and many other places in the region, Ken has designed and built over 300 homes, over 140 geothermal heating and cooling installations, over 50 solar installations, and 30 radiant floor installations.  Moreover, he designed and built the nation?s first geothermal subdivision composed of 50 homes.  Ken has worked in residential and commercial construction from the islands of the Bahamas to the state of Maryland.  He has brought beauty and efficiency to historic farmhouses, tiny townhouses and luxury homes of 10,000 square feet. 

Ken, along with his wife Beverley, has owned and presided over the company since 1974.  He has the following licenses in Virginia: Class A HVAC Contractor License, Class A Plumbing Contractor License, Class A Electrical Contractor License, Class A Heavy Highway Municipal Sewer and Water Contractor License, Class A Building Contractor License (#2701-014440A) and a Geothermal Drilling License.

In addition to his craftsmanship in building, his creativity in drilling and HVAC has continued to spring forth.  He has obtained a few trademarks with more applied for and several patents with more applied for on geothermal installation and design methods, ground-loop drilling devices, copper ground-loops, water-source ground-loops, refrigerant flow- and charge-control device, and geothermal grouting equipment to make direct exchange and water-source geothermal heat pump installations work successfully.

In his metal shop, Ken designed and built drill rigs and grout machines capable of residential and large-tonnage commercial ground loop installations.   He developed casing advancer techniques to assist the small-hole geo driller in getting to the bottom of every hole with a ground loop (a difficult alignment task in cavity, cavern, fractured rock w/collapsing sand, etc.) by inserting the ground loop into the casing then withdrawing the casing as the hole collapses against the loop and then grouting from the bottom up.   This is a new innovation for production drilling.  The name of the company soon had to grow to reflect the diversity of skills, accomplishments, products, and services.  

The Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) in conjunction with the Geothermal Heat Pump Consortium and the International Ground Source Heat Pump Association (IGSHPA) has granted Ken the title of Certified GeoExchange Designer for having completed the prescribed standards for certification and having demonstrated a high level of competence and ethical fitness.  Ken is the one engineers hire to install geothermal heating and cooling equipment in their homes and offices.  One dean of an engineering college of a major Virginia public university has one of our systems in his home in central Virginia.  The College of Integrated Science and Technology at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia has one of our systems in their offices.  

What We Do

Commercial Experience

Government Misc Project
Assisted Living Industrial Maintenance Non-Building Construction Office Building Residential Building Restaurant Single Family Residential

Regions & Counties Serviced

  • Virginia

Virginia All

Our CSI Codes

23 01 50 - Operation and Maintenance of Central Heating Equipment
23 06 50 - Schedules for Central Heating Equipment
23 21 13.33 - Ground-Loop Heat-Pump Piping
23 57 33 - Direct Geoexchange Heat Exchangers
23 71 13.16 - Heat-Pump Boosters for Thermal Storage
23 81 43 - Air-Source Unitary Heat Pumps
23 81 46 - Water-Source Unitary Heat Pumps
25 05 26 - Grounding and Bonding for Integrated Automation
26 01 10 - Operation and Maintenance of Medium-Voltage Electrical Distribution
26 01 20 - Operation and Maintenance of Low-Voltage Electrical Distribution
26 06 10 - Schedules for Medium-Voltage Electrical Distribution
26 06 20 - Schedules for Low-Voltage Electrical Distribution
26 06 20.26 - Wiring Device Schedule
26 10 00.00.01 - Medium-Voltage Electrical Distribution
26 18 13 - Medium-Voltage Cutouts
26 20 00.00.01 - Low-Voltage Electrical Distribution
26 21 00.00.01 - Low-Voltage Overhead Electrical Power Systems
26 43 13 - Transient-Voltage Suppression for Low-Voltage Electrical Power Circuits
27 05 26 - Grounding and Bonding for Communications Systems
31 63 33 - Drilled Micropiles
33 71 36 - Extra-High-Voltage Wiring
33 71 36.13 - Overhead Extra-High-Voltage Wiring
33 71 39 - High-Voltage Wiring
33 71 39.13 - Overhead High-Voltage Wiring
33 71 49 - Medium-Voltage Wiring
33 71 49.13 - Overhead Medium-Voltage Wiring
33 81 23 - Aerial Cable Installation Hardware
34 21 16 - Traction Power Substations
34 21 16.13 - AC Traction Power Substations
34 21 16.16 - DC Traction Power Substations
40 95 73 - Process Control Wiring
41 33 23 - Drilling Equipment
41 66 13 - Mobile Boring and Drilling Rigs
45 11 01 - Operation and Maintenance of Oil and Gas Extraction Equipment
45 11 06 - Schedules for Oil and Gas Extraction Equipment
48 16 13 - Geothermal Energy Heat Pumps
48 16 16 - Geothermal Energy Condensers
48 16 19 - Geothermal Energy Steam Turbines

Project Experience

  • Non-Union
  • Private
  • New Projects
  • Alterations/Renovations
  • Service Work/Repairs

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Associations & Memberships

ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating & Air Conditioning Engin
ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating & Air Conditioning Engin
HBA (Home Builders Assn. of Virginia)
HBA (Home Builders Assn. of Virginia)
SVBA (Shenandoah Valley Builders Assn.)
SVBA (Shenandoah Valley Builders Assn.)
AEE (Assn. of Energy Engineers)
AEE (Assn. of Energy Engineers)
NAHB (National Assn. of Home Builders)
NAHB (National Assn. of Home Builders)
RSES (Refrigeration Service Engineers Society)
RSES (Refrigeration Service Engineers Society)
IGSHPA (International Ground Source Heat Pump Assn.)
IGSHPA (International Ground Source Heat Pump Assn.)
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