Posted by ppeery on February 28th, 2011 in Architecture and Design, Education and Inspiration, Green Building
Alexander Nicholson, a proud member of the Bundoran Farm Guild, was founded in 1980 by a pair of University of Virginia classmates, Michael Alexander Cernik and Jack Nicholson Stoner. They were strongly influenced by the oil embargoes during the 1970’s and began their career as builders of passive solar and energy efficient homes. Many of [...]
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Posted by ppeery on February 28th, 2011 in Green Building, Project Updates
Last week the Ballyshannon Bridge was installed at Bundoran Farm. Extraordinary steps where taken to locate and design the bridge to limit its impact on the existing stream. The bridge has been placed at the location of an existing stream crossing and was designed to allow the free flow of water and wildlife along the [...]
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Posted by ppeery on February 21st, 2011 in General, Geobarns Updates
Today we had four full crews running full bore on site–with two more heading our way this weekend. We almost completed the tasting room floor after the morning arrival of the v-groove, finished the enormous hip rafters on the north porch and cut all the rafters for Monday’s installation, got half the veranda insulated and [...]
Posted by ppeery on February 21st, 2011 in Geobarns Updates
Today was a bit of a mixed day with a lot of progress but also getting bogged down a few times in difficult details that impeded progress…not to mention running out of flooring mid afternoon and the power going out while we were all in high gear toward the end of the day….:-( …… Ben’s [...]
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Posted by ppeery on February 21st, 2011 in Geobarns Updates
The weather was wonderful today–giving us all even more of a mind to work….completing the north porch upper beam, starting flooring on the tasting room after sledging in the compression boards, building and beginning to install a couple dozen transom boxes…and me struggling to frame the complex AV room with dozens of wires, conduit and [...]
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Posted by ppeery on February 21st, 2011 in General, Geobarns Updates
We finished the tasting room floor system and the granary internal framing today…and will move onto the north porch and tasting room flooring tomorrow. The morning felt pretty disjointed and the crews seemed a little out of sync–which is often true after putting in a big day such as yesterday–not to mention wrestling with the [...]
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Posted by ppeery on February 21st, 2011 in Geobarns Updates
Today was a great day–warm, sunny, and wildly windy…up to 50 mph gusts that rocked the camper and tested our balance and sent swirls of red clay dust across everything in sight. I loved working in a tee shirt for over half the day…. Meanwhile–we are progressing on the internal framing and most of us [...]
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Posted by ppeery on February 21st, 2011 in Geobarns Updates
We had such a good day today–with all three crews making tremendous progress in their respective areas. After a few days of frustration on the courtyard porch–the crew of Curtis, Kevin and the bolting “pro from Dover” Bruce really went to town today and finished the framing and most of the bolts–just in time for [...]
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Posted by ppeery on February 21st, 2011 in Geobarns Updates
We hit the big 50 day milestone today….and I am confident we are about half way there…in terms of what is behind us and what lies ahead. Today we had a wonderfully productive day and were able to get all the girders up in the tasting room and start on the buttresses–while another crew continued [...]
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Posted by ppeery on February 11th, 2011 in Education and Inspiration, Green Building
The City of Charlottesville, the County of Albemarle, and the University of Virginia are hosting a Community Workshop inviting the public to learn more about ongoing initiatives related to energy opportunities and impacts, including recent efforts to identify effective energy management strategies. Below are the event details: Cost: Free Date: Thursday, February 24, 2011 Place: [...]
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