Building the LEED Platinum home of YIKES, Inc.
These are the lower cabinets. They have black walnut frames with an infill made from sanded palette wood. Behind the palettes is a material painted various colors that will be revealed as the the wood expands and contracts with temperature changes.
Cool, huh? The kitchens are going to be amazing, I can’t wait to see them.
Electrical, plumbing and HVAC are set to wrap up soon, then it’s on to Insulation and stucco!
Much of the rough framing has been completed. It is amazing to walk through doorways and see exactly where each room will be.
After Thanksgiving there will be major milestones like new windows and doors and a completed roof.
Soon, for the first time in who knows how many years, 204 and 206 East Girard Ave will be dry inside after it rains.
More framing pics: Continue reading “And we have a roof”
Last week Lauren Macaluso from the blog “Philadelphia Neighborhoods” came by the buildings to do a piece on our project. It came out yesterday, it’s pretty cool and even has an accompanying video.
Check out the entire article -> Fishtown: Owners Seek to Build Highest-Standard Green Buildings
While waiting for the building permits to come through, I’ve been learning about the materials we will be using including: 100% reclaimed interior doors, 100% reclaimed flooring materials, 90% reclaimed framing materials and 100% recycled drywall. We will be reusing what we can from the building itself and getting other materials via the Resource Exchange.
Marsha from Greensaw sent me this info on The Resource Exchange.
The Resource Exchange, is a nonprofit reuse center and workshop space dedicated to promoting creative reuse, recycling, and resource conservation by diverting valuable materials from the waste stream and redirecting them to artists, builders, educators and the general public. The organization’s first program, reSETS, targeted waste materials specifically generated from the entertainment industry. Since the program’s inception, approximately 30 tons of lumber, scenery, and set decoration destined for landfill was salvaged for reuse, and over 600 tons of additional material, previously considered “waste”, was recycled.
The organization has diverted valuable material from many local productions, including: Law Abiding Citizen, The Last Airbender, The Walnut Street Theatre main stage, The Dark Fields, Garza, television series pilots and studio productions.
Neat!
I love how so many pieces of Philly will all come together to create these renovated buildings. After it is done these building will contain a million stories.