CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
                                       OF
                         DAEDALUS BUILDING SYSTEMS, INC.
1.  The name of the corporation is DAEDALUS BUILDING SYSTEMS, INC.

2. The address of its  registered  office in the State of Delaware is Three Mill
Road,  Suite  104,  in the  City of  Wilmington  19806,  County  of New  Castle,
Delaware.  The name of its registered agent at such address is The Incorporators
Ltd.

3. The nature of the  business or purposes to be  conducted  or promoted  is: To
engage in any lawful act or activity  for which  corporations  may be  organized
under the General Corporation Law of Delaware.

4. The  total  number  of  shares of stock  which  the  corporation  shall  have
authority to issue is Thirty-Three  Million  (33,000,000) of which stock, Thirty
Million (30,000,000) shares of the par value of One Cent ($0.01) each, amounting
in the aggregate to Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00) shall be Common
Stock,  and of which Three  Million  (3,000,000)  shares of the par value of One
Dollar  ($1.00)  each,  amounting  in the  aggregate  to Three  Million  Dollars
($3,000,000.00) shall be Preferred Stock.

         The Board of Directors is authorized, subject to the provisions of this
Article 4 and  limitations  prescribed  by law, to provide  for the  issuance of
shares of Preferred  stock in series,  to  determine  the number of shares to be
included in each series and to fix and  determine  separately  for the shares of
each series their relative rights and  preferences,  including,  but not limited
to, any one or more of the following:

         (1) The rate of  dividends,  whether  dividends  shall be cumulative or
non-cumulative,  the times at and the terms and  conditions  on which  dividends
shall be paid  directly  and any  relative  rights of  priority  of  payment  of
dividends on the shares in relation to  dividends  payable to any other class or
series of stock of the corporation;

         (2)  The  terms  and  conditions  for  any  redemption  of the  shares,
including  the price at, and the date or dates  after  which,  the shares may be
redeemed  and  relative  rights of  priority  of  redemption  of such  shares in
relation to redemption of any other class or series of stock of the corporation;

         (3) The rights of the shares to any sinking  fund or purchase  fund for
the  redemption  or purchase of such shares,  including the amount and the terms
and conditions of such sinking or purchase fund;

         (4) Any rights of the shares in the event of voluntary  or  involuntary
liquidation,  dissolution or winding up of the corporation, including the amount
payable upon the shares in such event,  the terms and conditions of such payment
and the  relative  rights of  priority  of payment of such shares in relation to
payment of any other class or series of stock of the corporation;

         (5) Any  conversion  privileges of the shares,  including the price at,
and the terms and  conditions on which,  the shares may be converted into shares
of any other class or series of stock of the corporation and the relative rights
of priority of  conversion of such shares in relation to conversion of any other
class or series of stock of the corporation;

         (6) Any voting rights of the shares,  including the number of votes per
share, the matters on which the shares can vote and the contingencies which make
the voting rights effective; and

         (7)  Any other relative rights and preferences.

         All shares of Common stock shall have  identical  rights and privileges
in every  respect.  Shares of any  series of  Preferred  stock  which  have been
redeemed  (whether  through  the  operation  of a sinking  or  purchase  fund or
otherwise)  or  purchased  by the  corporation,  or  which,  if  convertible  of
exchangeable,  have been  converted into or exchanged for shares of stock of any
other class or classes shall have the status of authorized  and unissued  shares
of  Preferred  stock and may be  reissued  as a part of the series of which they
were  originally  a part or may be  reclassified  and  reissued as part of a new
series of Preferred  stock to be created by  resolution  or  resolutions  of the
Board of Directors,  or as part of any other series of Preferred stock,  subject
to the  conditions or  restrictions  on issuance set forth in the  resolution or
resolutions  adopted by the Board of  Directors  providing  for the issue of any
series of Preferred stock and to any filing required by law.




         5a.  The name and mailing address of its incorporator is as follows:
                  Herbert S. Rosenblum
                  526 King Street, Suite 211
                  Post Office Box 58
                  Alexandria, Virginia 22313

         5b. The name and  mailing  address of each  person who is to serve as a
director until the first annual meeting of the stockholders or until a successor
is elected and qualified, is as follows:

                  Edward A. McCulloch
                  8653 Richmond Highway
                  Alexandria, Virginia 22309

         6.  The corporation is to have perpetual existence.

         7. In  furtherance  and not in  limitation  of the powers  conferred by
statute, the Board of Directors is expressly authorized:

         To make, alter or repeal By-Laws of the corporation.

         8.  Elections of  directors  need not be by written  ballot  unless the
By-Laws of the corporation shall so provide.

         Meetings  of  stockholders  may be held  within or without the State of
Delaware,  as the By-Laws may provide.  The books of the corporation may be kept
(subject  to any  provisions  contained  in the  statutes)  outside the State of
Delaware at such place or places as may be  designated  from time to time by the
Board of Directors or in the By-Laws of the corporation.

         9. The corporation  reserves the right to amend, alter change or repeal
any  provision  in this  Certificate  of  Incorporation,  in the  manner  now or
hereafter  prescribed by statute,  and all rights  conferred  upon  stockholders
herein are granted subject to this reservation.

         10. No director  shall be personally  liable to the  corporation or any
stockholder  for monetary  damages for breach of  fiduciary  duty as a director,
except for any matter in respect of which such  director  shall be liable  under
Section 174 of Title 8 of the Delaware  Code  (relating to the Delaware  General
Corporation  Law) or any  amendment  thereto or successor  provision  thereto or
shall be liable by reason  that,  in addition to any and all other  requirements
for such  liability,  he:  (i) shall  have  breached  his duty of loyalty to the
corporation or its stockholders,  (ii) shall not have acted in good faith, (iii)
shall  have  acted in a manner  involving  intentional  misconduct  or a knowing
violation of law or, in failing to act,  shall have acted in a manner  involving
intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, or (iv) shall have derived
an improper personal  benefit.  Neither the amendment nor repeal of this Article
10, nor the  adoption  of any  provision  of the  certificate  of  incorporation
inconsistent  with this Article 10, shall eliminate or reduce the effect of this
Article 10 in respect of any matter occurring,  or any course of action, suit or
claim  that,  but for this  Article  10 would  accrue  or  arise,  prior to such
amendment, repeal or adoption of an inconsistent provision.

         I, the undersigned,  being the incorporator hereinbefore named, for the
purpose of forming a corporation  pursuant to the General Corporation Law of the
State of Delaware,  do make this  certificate,  hereby  declaring and certifying
this is my act and deed and the facts herein stated are true,  and  accordingly,
have hereunto set my hand this 28th day of October, 1999.

                                             /s/  Herbert S. Rosenblu
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                                             Herbert S. Rosenblum, Esquire
                                             526 King Street, Suite 211
                                             Post Office Box 58
                                             Alexandria, Virginia 22313