by Natalia Smiarowski

On Friday, the College of Natural Sciences Advisory Board came to the site and were able to ask questions about the project and speak to us about the UMass DesignBuild Program. We presented renders from the design stage of the project, showed our scale model of what the house will look like when complete and brought out the full construction document set for them to leaf through (35+ pages). During the board visit, we spoke with the members of the board about our experiences in the program during the construction and design process. It was an enthusiastic group of knowledgeable, inquisitive people and they showed genuine interest in what we were building.

Later on Friday, we finished sheathing the house and installed the second half of the ceiling trusses, tying all the exterior double stud walls together. We were also able to begin building our interior walls and the bucks for our window rough openings.