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 …

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 the Empowerhouse team has been very fortunate as we have a generous sponsor who has elected to provide us with breakfast and lunch most of the week.  This is, to put it concisely, awesome.  I have however noticed the …

WE GOT HARDHATS!!!!! AND GLOVES!!!! AND EAR PROTECTION THINGYS!!!!! AND SAFETY GLASSES!!!!!!

Dear New York Giants Players, Especially those of you living in Hoboken. The Empowehouse team has a challenge for you. We have designed and will be building these awesome exterior wall panels that are strong and stuffed full of insulation and structure that will protect you from energy loss better than the Raiders Offensive line protects whoever is healthy enough to be the starting quarterback. Ok, the Raiders O-line is a bad example because most things work better than the Raiders O-line, but regardless these panels are pretty damn sweet.

Hello all!  Welcome to the Friday blog.  My name is Andrew and I’m a second, going on third year Master of Architecture student on the Empowerhouse team.  Since we are in a holding pattern for the build right now, working …