This week I had the pleasure of heading back up to the Athens Limestone area to work on Habitat’s newest house with a great group of kids from Ohio State. Unlike the last one which was made of ICF’s this one is going with typical 2×4 framing. With that said, they will still be pursuing
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Yesterday at 2 PM, the Harbin’s now officially have a house they can call home after the tornados of April 27th, 2011 destroyed their prior home. This marks the 38th house completed by the Athens Limestone County chapter of Habitat & the 2001 house completed in the State of Alabama. There were about 60+ people
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It has now been a little over 4 months since the project was started & yes, things are running a tad behind schedule. As I recall the completion date was originally scheduled for the end of this month & it has now been bumped till the end of June. As of this moment they now
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Thank goodness for rain days as this Thursday that allowed me to get back up to Athens to check out the progress and help out for a few hours. Along the same lines, I thought I would include more about BOULD’s system & how it works. For more on this project you may wish to
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(UPDATED: Video added from WKU’s trip at the bottom) As you may recall the original schedule called for the concrete to be poured last Friday, but alas the best laid plans… and the weather said otherwise. At least today that wouldn’t be an issue and the weather was being nice as it was relatively warm
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In our last post on “Let’s get this project rolling” we caught up with the project & mentioned some of the weather that was liable to make life a little difficult. When I left the schedule & weather forecast stood as follows: Monday: Official kickoff (Invite news crews, etc…) Tuesday: Start laying up walls &
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In our last article, we introduced you to a program where Habitat affiliates can team up with local professionals looking at becoming LEED AP’s and also obtaining LEED Certifications on their buildings (at no cost to them). In this series we are going to take you through the EverBuildPRO process & the actual construction of
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So you have decided you want to earn or become a LEED AP. There is just have one small issue, unless you have or are working on a LEED project, just how are you supposed to gain the experience & show documented involvement on a project registered or certified for LEED? (AKA a letter of
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