The past month has seen the hiring of Rocci Brown Excavating to see overall road infrastructure put in place prior to winter setting in. This has consisted of reshaping the road, laying down 4" inches of base material, revisiting culverts, placing rock check damns, and putting forth a foundation for road integrity for the next few decades.
Yesterday, I returned from a week long trip to the USGBC's Greenbuild convention in Phoenix, AZ. This trip was special in many ways, as CM Paul Wilson took the opportunity to travel and meet me there to take part in a number of Green workshops, walk the approx 1800 vendors sporting green wares, and enjoying a few eats while out on the town. The time was well spent, as both Paul and I felt that we made a huge stride in selecting the main heat source for the home, the rain harvesting company to design / supply water catchment components, the surface material for the flat roofs and possible green roof materials, as well as storage tank supplier to boot.
The winter months ahead will see us finalize the DD so we can develop the CD's for a spring start-up. We will work with vendors to develop various design applications for the project and review a host of materials we need to still look into. Windows, roof, interior finishes, are just a few last ideas.
We met up with Planet Reuse, a material reuse broker, at Greenbuild. We have entered into a working agreement with PR to review our existing plans to identify any material options for us that we can utilize from a deconstructed project (ie. timbers, flooring, siding, etc).
Going forward, Paul Wilson will be visiting our home in Kansas (yes, we moved from MT in July) to sit down and review the LEED H criteria and make decisive points / scopes of work that can be applied to the DD phase, with remaining points to be applied during the construction phase.
Back with more as we move forward.
Tim
