Riverland House Project

We return to class January 11 with just four days of class before we leave for the National Association of Home Builders Show in LasVegas. I think the students are getting excited about the trip. We hope to learn more about green building as we go through the convention. In the next four days we hope to finish all the sheetrock hanging so we can get the taping started. After returning from the convention, we will start the cabinets for the house. We plan to have a media conference in the middle of January to get the word out about the green features of this house, highlighting the money and energy saving features of this project.  

Today we spent time in the classroom learning about porvious concrete we had a speaker here from the Rochester ready-mix and north central cement council top authority in the field of porvious concrete.  The student got very engaged in the presentation and had lots of good question.

With the snowday yesterday we are finishing the rock in the garage today. Unruh insulation can today and foamed the ceiling and rim. I have the third party inspection tomorrow Pat Omaley from Building Knowledge is coming down in the morning. With the inspection complete we will Monday start rocking the wall hopefully wrapping that up on Thursday

Riverland Community College’s Carpentry Program is currently building  what we hope to be the first outstate MN Greenstar certified home.  This house is located at 1404 29th St S.W. in Austin, Minnesota.   Sponsors helping with the cost of the construction include Austin Utilities, Probuild and Masonary Technology, Inc.  We are continuing to look for additional sponsors that would like to become involed with this environmentally friendly project.