Greening your historic home

Practical Preservation Podcast featuring Josh Coleman and Mike Eenigenburg of Lancaster County Timber Frames Inc.

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Josh Coleman and Mike Eenigenburg of Lancaster County Timber Frames Inc. joined us this week to discuss their work in traditional building and timber framing, including hidden gems in historic work, and how to accurately restore or replace framing while adjusting to new codes and requirements.  You can find Lancaster Timber Frames on their website. …

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Preservation and Sustainability

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Preservation and sustainability. What does one have to do with the other? If we examine these terms more closely, we can see that older buildings are inherently “green” or sustainable because of “embodied energy” (all of the energy used to build the building that would need to be expended to build something else). In fact, …

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