This past week the Empowerhouse had many visitors.  As the construction team continues to build, Milano students are organizing workshops showing off what we’ve been up to.

One of our visitors was a man who has been dedicated to our …

The building lot has gotten a lot fresher smelling and do you know why?  Because we are pretty far along with putting up our red cedar siding and it’s looking great.  The siding comes in handy when it rains 3 …

A new roof has been up on the house, thanks to Delta Contracting Services and Sika Sarnafil, keeping all that cellulose dry and allowing us to push ahead with interior work. The roof is made from tapered rigid insulation (polyisocyanurate), …

Sunday August 30th a group of students got together and canned vegetables grown in the Lederer Youth Garden in Deanwood! We canned beets, cucumbers, peppers, onions,  and squash! The colorful jars will decorate the house and the vegetables will be …

It sounds like a cheesy werewolf movie from the early nineties, but it is really something vastly important to our project and also currently in progress on our house. See those black strips on our house? Not the tape, but the wooded pieces that are set in a fun vertical pattern like zebra stripes? Yea you do. That’s the furring.

So much has happened over the past week and we have SO MUCH left to do!   Don’t worry – we’ve got this.

Last week a crew started filling those Nordic Engineered Lumber walls of ours with cellulose insulation from National …

We submitted a precertification PHPP to PHIUS.

This has been one of our major stated goals!

It is a great opportunity to thank PHIUS for their support. PHIUS have trained us to work with the Passive House design concepts and …

Emily Kerns — with Haixiao Jiang, Kenneth Amoah and Hiroshi Teramae.

So out in Construction Land the team has been busy both inside and outside the house preparing for inspections and, even less forgiving, Mother Nature.  With storms rolling in this week following a grueling July heat wave, the team has …