A great cover story (Summer 2017, pp.6 – 23) featuring the amazing process of restoring and rebuilding the John House home, a 17th century house. The salvaged building was bought, sight unseen[...]

Carol Lollis’ beautiful piece in the Dec. 1 Hampshire Life magazine featured the West Cummington Congregational Church which we helped to rebuild after a terrible fire in January 2010.

Kent Hicks’ home and office have been a labor of love for the past decade. The building was originally a grist mill, then a tool handle manufacturing company. The historic renovation had[...]

We built a net zero home for some very happy clients who wanted a self-sufficient, resilient, low maintenance and durable home. Their home is featured in the most recent Green Builder magazine (pp.[...]

We’ve worked on old houses in New England for years and have learned that well-built wooden structures can last a very long time – like 100 to 300 years. As stewards of[...]

Green Giants – 2015 Green Building Local Hero Awards Program Here’s a little history The Green Giants Award Program was created in 2013 as a biennial awards program by our chapter to[...]

Our Savoy house has been featured in a new eBook, Net Zero Energy Buildings: Passive House + Renewables, published by the NAPHN, see pages 42-43.  

Our circa 1850’s office building in West Chesterfield was originally a grist mill and later a saw handle factory. We are in the midst of a Deep Energy Retrofit, expanding our workspace[...]

We’re starting our next phase “deep energy retrofit” on our old mill building here on the Westfield River in West Chesterfield. For the first phase, it was clear as we started demolition[...]

We along with others involved in green building have recognized that the materials and products used in buildings make significant environmental impacts long before they are installed. The impacts include the amount[...]

When we evaluate structures to either tear down and re-build or save and retrofit, our first instinct is always to save and re-use what’s existing. This is primarily due to a large[...]

  The master bedroom with custom made book shelves and bedside reading lights.

Compare the before photo taken in the Spring and the photo of the sunburst taken in between.  

What is it like to live in your home (and with us, no less!) while undergoing a deep energy retrofit? Eamon Wick, the son of our client Missy Wick, just finished editing[...]

I just went in on Monday and Tuesday, and it’s more stunning then I had imagined it might be! The sunburst was conceived and carved by the homeowner, an artist, and furniture[...]

Our Residential Energy Analysis is minus 18 HERS index. A typical conventional house has a HERS rating of over 85.  A well insulated home is usually has a 40 to 60 HERS[...]

This is the article published on Passive House “Efficiently Green” home building. Click on Efficiently-Green to read.

Demo existing plaster walls and remove old thin fiberglass original insulation. Time and busy animals have taken their toll on this insulation.

Our Wick Deep Energy Retrofit is featured on the cover of the Winter 2012 issue of this magazine. http://www.greenmechanicalcontractor-digital.com/greenmechanicalcontractor/winter2012#pg12 Green Mechanical Contractor magazine highlights the excellent work done by Jim Patterson at[...]

This November 2011 article details the National Grid Deep Energy Retrofit project we did. There are extensive photographs as well as descriptions of this project. http://www.buildingscience.com/documents/case-studies/cs-ma-northampton-ngrid-deep-energy-retrofit-comprehensive-1859-victorian