Building Again!

The bottom fell out of the Seattle construction market back in 2008. Over the next few months, all of our projects that hadn't yet started construction got put on hold. Five single family homes, a three unit townhouse, two vacation cabins. None of these projects ever saw the the light of day. Over the next couple years I spent most of my time doing paper exercises: feasibility studies, strategic plans, code analysis.

In 2010, work picked up & I began design on a number of new construction projects. Howell Lofts, a townhouse development on Capitol Hill was the first to break ground in the Spring of 2011. This summer, the project framing got far enough along that we were able to walk through the units.  As I walked around, I was struck with a sudden recollection that THIS IS THE FUN PART!. I had spent so much time working on diagrams, spreadsheets & charts that I forgotten how exciting it is to put something new into the world that wasn't there before.

Howell Lofts will be completed by the end of the year. Its a very ambitious project, rated Built Green 5 Star and featuring a number of new energy saving technologies that I'll write more about later.