Haywood Habitat for Humanity
April 2006
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Skyland Terrace Property site of Sustainable Resource House. File Information: |
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Scott Goldsmith starts the property excavation process with a Carolina Tractor backhoe loader. File Information: |
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Scott Goldsmith operates the Carolina Tractor CAT to complete the property excavation. File Information: |
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First basement panel from Superior Walls of North Carolina wall being craned into position. File Information: |
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Superior Walls crew stabilizes a basement panel. File Information: |
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Basement walls half way completed. File Information: |
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Bob Baer's crew bolts a corner to make wall connection. File Information: |
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Ten panels and two main beams were used to construct this well insulated basement by Superior Walls of North Carolina. File Information: |
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Finished Superior Walls of North Carolina basement. File Information: |
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The base floor is being installed. File Information: |
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The I-Joists in the house are complete. File Information: |
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The future homeowner (far right) helps build his new house with the assistance of Mahlon Colborne (center), a Haywood Habitat for Humanity volunteer, and all the partners and contributors of the project. File Information: |
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The volunteers place the Structural Insulated Panels necessary for erecting the wall on the extended forklift. File Information: |
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Al Cobb drives the extended forklift with the Structural Insulated Panels for the walls . File Information: |
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The volunteers remove the Structural Insulated Panels from the extended forklift to prepare the panels for placement. File Information: |
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The volunteers prepare the Structural Insulated Panels for placement. File Information: |
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The volunteers prepare the structure before placing the Structural Insulated Panels. File Information: |
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A volunteer prepares the Structural Insulated Panels before placing the panels upright on the structure. File Information: |
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Marnette Colborne, the executive director of Haywood Habitat for Humanity, and Mike Ritter, the assistant director of the USDA Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory, discuss the project with Steve Wilder, a photojournalist with Ashville's ABC News 13 team. File Information: |
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The volunteers prepare the structure for placement of the Structural Insulated Panels. File Information: |
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The volunteers move the Structural Insulated Panel to start the process of placement. File Information: |
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A volunteers start moving the Structural Insulated Panel into position. File Information: |
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A volunteers start raising the Structural Insulated Panel into position. File Information: |
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A volunteers raised the Structural Insulated Panel into position. File Information: |
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A volunteers raised the Structural Insulated Panel into position and are checking placement. File Information: |
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A volunteers raised the Structural Insulated Panel into position and are fine tuning placement. File Information: |
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The Structural Insulated Panel is in position. File Information: |
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View of the house showing the garage entrance. File Information: |
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The front of the house showing the windows, roof and covered porch. File Information: |
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A view of the house interior showing the great room and associated engineered wood products. File Information: |
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A view of the house interior facing the bathroom and bedroom areas with associated engineered wood products focusing on the finger-jointed studs. File Information: |
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A view of the house interior showing the engineered wood products used in the construction. File Information: |
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The house's cathedral ceiling showing the Structural Insulated Panelsby supported by the glued-laminated beam. File Information: |
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View of the house focusing on the garage entrance. File Information: |
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View of the house showing the garage entrance. File Information: |
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A view showing the side of house opposite from the garage entrance. File Information: |
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Close-up of the front of the house. File Information: |
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Keep checking back... There are more photographs of the project coming daily! |
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