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, September 14, 2010

Bruss is BACK!

Ok wow. So a few things are happening.

1. Bruss is back. They are in the basement right now pouring footings for new lally columns. They found some old bottles while digging holes for the new footings. We are glad to have them back.
2. Site Structures Landscape was here this weekend. They cut down a tree out back, dug up our amazing collection of weeds, poured a slab for the front steps, and laid a bed of compacted gravel for a walkway.
3. Petersen Garden Design (James's wife's business) is outback taming our out of control and neglected garden.

I don’t have time to write any more today. Hopefully these pictures taken today will speak for themselves.




















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