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%.


Thursday, May 20, 2010

Window Mock Up

The Bruss team installed our first window on Tuesday as a mock up (they did not install the drip edge, tape the Tyvek or caulk the trim). Everything went well. They decided that the window trim is going to need to be riped down to a smaller dimension to be more historically appropriate. (The window trim seen in the pictures below will be removed and cut to size)

The next big step to do all of they prep-work for the window trim. It needs to be cut to size and primed on all 6 sides. The trim will then be pre-installed on the windows followed by the complete window instillation into the building.






marvin "window clip"

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