4801 Hillsborough Road, Durham.
The Durham branch opened in 2003 in a converted commercial building on Hillsborough Road in the West End. The building had previously housed a regional printing company; the conversion preserved the original brick facade and exposed-truss interior. The branch serves Durham, Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, and the western edge of Wake County, with a particular concentration of medical-office commercial work along the Erwin Road and Roxboro Street corridors near Duke University and Duke Regional Hospital.
The branch
Durham dispatches roughly nine residential service trucks and three commercial trucks. Residential work in this branch tilts toward the older housing stock of Durham — pre-war bungalows and 1920s-1940s frame homes that require careful retrofit work, often with high-velocity ducting through existing wall cavities. The Durham branch is also Halberd's primary commercial branch for the medical-office sector, with quarterly inspection rotations across six medical-office buildings and several Duke-affiliated outpatient facilities.
The neighborhoods most served by this branch include West End, Trinity Park, Old North Durham, Walltown, Hope Valley, Forest Hills, Watts-Hillandale, Tuscaloosa-Lakewood, and the Erwin Mill corridor. In Chapel Hill: Westwood, Glen Lennox, the historic district, and Meadowmont.
Branch staff
- Olivia Carrington — Branch Manager
- Six years with the firm. Previously a project manager at a Greensboro mechanical engineering consultancy. Oversees Durham dispatch and the medical-office commercial accounts.
- Devon Bridgeforth — Lead Installer
- Fourteen years with the firm. Specialty in historic-home retrofits, including high-velocity systems and small-diameter supply lines for pre-war housing stock.
- Sarah Kowalski, NATE, BPI — Durham-based Comfort Advisor
- Four years with the firm. BPI building-performance credential. Specialty in whole-home IAQ and envelope assessment, particularly suited to Durham's older housing stock.
Hours & contact
Address: 4801 Hillsborough Road, Durham, NC 27705
Phone: (919) 555-0242
Email: durham@halberdclimate.example
Hours: Mon–Fri 7 AM – 6 PM · Sat 8 AM – 4 PM