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, October 12, 2010

Digging out the basement

6 workers from Labor Ready (local temp agency) have been on site chipping away at digging out the basement. 3 are digging, 2 are running buckets, and one guy loading a wheelbarrow with the buckets and dumping it in the driveway. It is hard hard work. They are really getting after it down there... We are estimating that they will be here for the rest of the week. The pile of material in the driveway is massive yet in the basement it seems like they have barely scratched the surface. We are are going to be hiring somebody to come in with a excavator and a dump truck to remove the material from the driveway.







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