A Brief History

The project entails repairing the building at 335 Maplewood Ave in a manner that meets both preservation and sustainability goals. The building is the new location for Petersen Engineering, a firm that has been located in Portsmouth since 1992, and specializes in sustainable building engineering. We intend for this project to showcase techniques & materials that promote both preservation and sustainability and intend to share all aspects of the project locally and regionally through open houses, presentations, industry tradeshows, case studies and publications. We foresee this project being a valuable educational tool to demonstrate that preservation goals need not be compromised by sustainability goals. We have teamed with Bruss Construction who we know from past collaborations has exceptional experience and expertise on projects with the dual goal of preservation and sustainability.

The project received approval by the Historic District Commission on January 6, 2010 with construction scheduled to begin early February 2010.

The projected peak heat loss reduction is 85%.


Monday, February 22, 2010

Sill Removal on West Wall

The Bruss team removed the forms from Fridays concrete pour, setup the lifting jacks, picked up the entire west wall & have begun cutting out sections of sill for replacement. See photos:


Jared Raymond, wrestling a boulder.


Jacks do not leave much space to work.


Completed foundation reinforcement. (from Friday)


Lee Beaton, changing blade on sawsall used to cut existing sill out.
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