Monthly Archives: February 2012

Basement space represents the cheapest footage attainable in residential building To put it plainly, a 2K square foot slab house cost more to build than a 1K square foot house on a full basement.  The delta in cost between a crawl space foundation and an additional full basement is even less. One important thing to [...]

Clearing and Excavation Entire day’s activities condensed down to 56 seconds of continuous time-lapse footage .  Camera set to capture individual stills in 30 second intervals.

Overview With the help of Bryan Light of the Brick Industry Association, a meeting with General Shale’s Mark Kinser was arranged.  General Shale is the largest brick manufacturer in the U.S., and Mark is Vice President of Corporate Development and Marketing.  General Shale is a subsidiary to European based Wienerberger, the largest global manufacturer of masonry products. The [...]

The story of building a structural masonry themed dwelling that may well last a thousand years — Structural Masonry refers to solid, load bearing masonry walls which are built with sufficient material mass to support other resting structural elements, and the live loads intended for a particular building. The exterior walls of the Adams house [...]

In preparation for the documentary, a camera tower must be raised to film the broad brush strokes of construction progress in a comprehensive manner .  The footage gained from this vantage will augment the project storyline along with interviews and conversations with personalities both directly and indirectly connected with what will be happening. Dialogue with Master [...]