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%.


Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Hey! Its raining again...

Yesterday was a rain out with exception that Lee drove in to facilitate a lumber delivery from Lumber Barn and a dumpster switch out in the morning...





Rather than stay home and watch The View today, the guys decided to come in and get a head start in the basement and do some prep work for the first floor structure repair that is scheduled to start once the walls & windows are in. Depending on how long this rain lasts, they are going to try to pour a few footings for the new lally columns that are going in.


Dave measuring the existing floor joists.


Lee smashing up some slab where a new footing is going in.
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