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, September 27, 2010

In the News & Green Building Open House


Our project was on the front page of the Portsmouth Herald on Saturday!

Read the article here:
http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20100925-NEWS-9250318




We are gearing up for the NESEA Green Building Open house this Saturday from 10-4 along with about 500 other sites across the country. According to the NESEA website, last year about 15,000 people toured over 500 sites throughout the Northeast. We are anticipating a lot of curious visitors.

Stop by! We would love to show you around.

We will be serving food and beverage. (beer, wine, cheese, crackers...) There will be lots and lots of pictures to browse through and ask questions about, a slide show, video cuts from Now or Never Media (whom has been documenting the entire project), and ofcorse James Petersen, Michael Bruss, most of the Petersen Engineering Team and myself will be here to answer questions and show people around.

We hope not to disappoint many visitors by the absence of PV, and other site energy PRODUCING technologies. We so far have just REDUCED energy. That is not a tangible thing that people can see and from our last open house expericene, we learned that that it is a difficult concept for some grasp. Its not something that we can plug into the wall and point at and say "hey! Look what we did, that is what is GREEN about this building". Although our project might not come off as sexy as the other projects on the tour that are focused on producing energy, we hope to give REDUCING energy and historic preservation an ultra sexy appeal...it might just take a little beer and some wine to do so... :)


Details can be found at the NESEA Green Building Tour website for our building and the many others in the area:

http://www.nesea.org/greenbuildings/
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