Habitat Green Build

Blower Door Test 3-8-2011

2011-06-28T07:29:00.000-07:00

Open House

2011-06-10T14:03:00.000-07:00

Jefferson City News Tribune Article

2010-11-02T22:46:00.000-07:00

Retaining Wall

2010-10-18T07:10:00.000-07:00

Progress Continues

2010-10-16T07:42:00.001-07:00

Well Digging

2010-10-15T14:51:00.001-07:00

Updated Pictures from Parade of Homes 10-10-10

2010-10-15T14:31:00.001-07:00

Work Begins

2010-06-14T08:33:00.000-07:00

(east wall)

This series of photos were taken on March 10, 2010 as the interior demolition was wrapping up.

(west wall)

(back wall)

(new studs)

(kitchen looking into the bathroom)

(bathroom)

(view of the addition)

(boarded up window in bathroom)

(Front and East Walls - 2x4s cover the old stairs)

(debris following demolition of the addition)

(The back of the original house. Note the boarded up window in the old bathroom and linoleum from the old utility room.)

The House as it Was

2010-06-14T07:34:00.000-07:00

This series of photos was taken on February 18, 2010, prior to the start of work on the project.

This is the interior of the home, looking toward the kitchen. The previous owner had started some work that was never finished.

The rear addition - note the original brick back wall (painted white) and the sloping roof.

The site of the original stairway to the second floor.

The bathroom in the addition.

Students from Nichols Career Center Building & Trades Class tour the home.

The stairway to the basement crawl space.

The view from the back wall to the front door. Note the dry wall which is being taken down - there was no insulation between the sheet rock and the brick.

Another view of the front door - note the basement stairs in the foreground.

A view of the home from the back - note the addition, the seam on the exterior brick wall, the sloping roof and the clapboard.

HBA of Central MO Members and River City Habitat for Humanity volunteers Larry Lewis, L.L. Lewis Construction, LLC, and James Stark, Septagon Construction, develop a plan for the re-model.

2010-06-04T11:35:00.000-07:00

2010-06-04T11:34:00.000-07:00

A collaborative effort has been put in place to turn a bungalow style house built in 1913 into a modern, appealing, energy efficient home. The home, with its long and narrow floor plan and tall ceilings was built using native stone for its exterior and foundation walls. There is also a partial basement, crawl space and coal shoot. The walls were built with double layer brick and native lumber for studs, ceiling joists and rafters. Typical of practices in the early 1900's, this home was built from materials readily available in the area. Homes were built close to markets, work and entertainment.

Vacant and foreclosed, the City of Jefferson purchased the home through a federal grant with the goal of making it available to a low to moderate income family. The city later donated the home to River City Habitat for Humanity. This is when the collaboration was set in motion to make this a project devoted to implementing national green building standards. By doing so, this project will serve as a best practice for the city, the region and the nation.

By pooling resources, this project will contribute to community development efforts in the area by rehabilitating a home in a neighborhood that struggles with limited resources. Our goal is to use modern technology to bring this 1913 home back to its original purpose...a nice, decent, low cost, sustainable home for a family.

Coming together for this project is a Leadership Team which represents a variety of entities with different resources. This project will enable each organization involved to lead by example and learn more about being green. As this Habitat Build progresses, we will explore opportunities of how we can work together to become more efficient with the resources each of us have in the name of Greening Missouri. Together, we will utilize our resources to conduct a deep energy retrofit on this home, making it more energy efficient for a deserving family.