Construction ChroniclesWe officially have been given an extra hour of daylight back to our schedule, and the weather is finally starting to warm up—warmer than the single digits, at least. With spring fast approaching, the construction of the S21 Design+Build Demonstration Home (Bill’s house for short) is going along full steam ahead. That’s not to say, however, that we don’t have lots to recap for you all. Milestones, you say? Oh, there are milestones galore! While we did sneak in a picture of the stunning 3D rendering of Bill’s house in the last issue, it has been a long minute since we have updated you on the progression of this home in the Studio Pages newsletter; if you watch our YouTube series, Design+Build Decoded, then you get caught up on the action every two weeks. Ground was broken back in November, right before Thanksgiving, to dig what will soon become the Styczynski home’s basement. This excavation took a mere matter of days, and then it came time for the first, ever-crucial, milestone: the foundation. In a blink-and-you-miss-it manner, the foundation of the home was installed in one day! Believe it or not, one day is all it took, as Bill’s home used Superior Wall’s prefabricated foundation system. A crane dropped each slice of the wall system into the excavated area, where the waiting construction crew simply had to piece them together like a puzzle and...voila––the foundation was in place.
As this article is going to print, construction presses on. Currently on the agenda could be considered yet another milestone: plumbing, HVAC and electrical, in that order. Bill has been at the site with the electrician and plumber to get those steps squared away and once completed, it will be time to insulate and drywall, making further progress on Bill’s home. Before I get too far ahead of myself, we will be uploading a full tour of the framed house, so give it a watch and let me know if I was right––is it starting to take shape yet?
written By: Emma H.Emma works as the Marketing Manager for Studio21 Architects. She is the writer behind (almost) all of our newsletter articles, and she works hard to make sure all of our marketing materials reflect an architect-approved design quality!
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