The Ember house in Lititz, PA was recently awarded LEED Gold Certification. This is one of only three residences in the state of Pennsylvania to achieve this distinction, and, thus far, the only one in Lancaster County. The south-facing home with a fine view of Lancaster County farmland is designed as a passive solar structure, […]
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What size company are we and why?
I’m not sure how I’d classify us as to size compared to other timber frame companies. And what does size mean? Average, or perhaps, combined employee body weight, number of projects raised yearly, total board footage worked per year, number of pegs purchased, amount of revenue or simply the number of people comprising the company? […]
Read More...A Timber Framer’s Impressions of France
My darling wife, in anticipation and celebration of my 65th birthday (actually, it was to be my 66th if one counted the actual day of birth as #1, but few do) proposed that we bicycle through France. I guess she figured that since I had had my left knee totally replaced fully eight months ago […]
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