Recently, I got to go to D.C. and meet with representatives from the DDOE (the District Department of the Environment) to go over all the water strategies that we are planning to implement at the Gault Place site.  They offered …

So while most of the team is outside in the shop or out on the lot assembling the floor panels, walls and roof of the house, a small part of the team is in the office making sure that all of the tiny little details of the design are being taken care of and also meet budget restrictions.

A month of mock ups have fine tuned our screwing, squaring, sheathing, re-squaring, rescrewing…  We’re skillfully on to the real deal, and it’s gonna/got to happen real fast! This house is going to be fully framed, taped and cellulose-blown in …

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I am excited to report that the Learning Garden groundbreaking was a success, as the response from the Deanwood community regarding the garden installation was a collective “YES we want this”! Representatives of The New School’s Urban Communities …

Celebrating the groundbreaking of the Deanwood Learning Garden on June 18

so i went on a little adventure last week to find a bird’s eye view of our site . . .and i found one from the center for maritime systems research office up the hill. check it out!…

This blog is all about . . . you guessed it! Eric!

You, the loyal blog viewer, are invited to tag along on the journey of a lifetime.  You’ll get to experience the good, the bad and everything in between …

I bet by that title you thought this was going to be a blog about all the crazy antics of those crazy kids at the Empowerhouse Collaborative. Nope. Not this time. Following on the ultra cute ending to Kim's blog, I have decided to introduce you to the wildlife I've spotted on the construction site! As I have a pretty crappy phone that takes terrible pictures and the fact that I can never seem to get it out and ready in time to capture ANYTHING worth while, I will preface the following images - I didn't take any of the pictures of the actual animals. I found them all on the intranet. They do however represent the cuteness that is overflowing in the midst of all the circular saw buzzing and drills a-screwing.

On June 29 at 11 am, the team will officially break ground on the project in Deanwood.