Check out our new renderings of Empowerhouse. In this post!

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 …

Another delivery arrived yesterday and the team quickly found space to store an ENTIRE TRUCKFULL of Cel-Pak Cellulose Insulation. This is the stuff we're going to be blowing into our walls until it's densely packed enough to provide R-values that are through the roof!

No house can begin to be built without the proper foundation and these awesome ziggurat foundations are no exception. The weight of our house will be carried by wood beams that will then transfer the load into the plywood foundations. Our earth team came up with this brilliant design as a way to continue to meet our goal of mitigating the overall cost of our house. Because we chose to move away from the more common and expensive metal foundations we needed a way to spread the loads into the ground with out damaging any of that pristine D.C. sod.

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

So as Jessica mentioned, we are still busy finalizing materials over here in Hoboken and breaking in our steel-toed boots.  While most must think material research boring, I’d like to share a short video about one of the products we’ll …

We have finally all made it to New Jersey and the view is fantastic! This morning marked the first day that the entire team landed in New Jersey from the far reaches of Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan and even Staten Island.

Welcome to your summer home, please wipe your feet. Wednesday May 25 was the beginning of a new phase for some of us Parsons/Stevens students. Five of us were assigned the task of starting to set up our summer workshop at Stevens and we all felt a huge sense of relief as we were finally set free from the unrelenting clutches of the CPU and given the chance to actually make things with our hands again, or so we thought...

From Innsbruck, Germany.