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, October 4, 2010

Green Building Open House Recap

This Sadurday's Green Building Open House was a success. About 25-30 people showed up. It was a mix of people on the Green Building Open House tour and curious neighbors that wanted to drop in and see what we have been up too!

Unfortunately we the article that was published in the paper last week said that the open house was going to be on Sunday 10/3 not Saturday 10/2. We had no idea! Somebody kindly dropped off a copy of the newspaper in our mailbox with the wrong date circled to bring it to our attention. We are so sorry for anybody that showed up on Sunday for the open house only to find that nobody was here. Hopefully they will be able to attend our next open house.


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