Spring Greening

5200 Dauphine continues to be framed. On rainy days, the construction crews retreat to the mill shop where they work with 100+ year old lumber on fabricating tongue & groove floor boards and assemble the wood windows for the building.

5200 Dauphine continues to be framed. On rainy days, the construction crews retreat to the mill shop where they work with 100+ year old lumber on fabricating tongue & groove floor boards and assemble the wood windows for the building.

5200 Dauphine continues to be framed. On rainy days, the construction crews retreat to the mill shop where they work with 100+ year old lumber on fabricating tongue & groove floor boards and assemble the wood windows for the building.

5200 Dauphine Update

 

5200 Dauphine BEFORE - A double-shotgun camelback, abandoned before the storm and collapsing on itself.

Historic Green volunteers helped to deconstruct, denail, clean, stack, sort, and organize the century-old building materials: 50% of the exterior weatherboards and 75% of the interior materials were salvaged!

  
 
5200 Dauphine TODAY - A LEED Platinum (anticipated) building, constructed by the New Orleans Preservation Resource Center's Operation Comeback (a longtime Historic Green partner), to serve as the Neighborhood Association HQ, the home offices of the Center for Sustainable Engagement & Development, a rentable upstairs apartment, and coffee shop with outdoor gardens/patio is under construction. Substantial completion is set for late summer, just a few weeks following the 5-year anniversary of the hurricanes that devastated this great neighborhood. This new building will carefully echo the historic character of the neigbhoring buildings as well as the structure it replaces. The structure also uses many of the reclaimed historic wood materials from the original building for items such as windows, floors, and some of the framing. New, green, materials have also been woven into the story these materials will tell: FSC lumber, BluWood, reflective metail roofing, recycled aggregate, slag and flyash concrete, and much more! So far, the construction process has diverted all but ONE GARBAGE BAG from going to landfill. The building will use nearly 50% less water and 50% less energy than an equivalent commercial structure, will be quickly recoverable/occupiable after any future flooding, and will serve as a green-building technology showcase for residents and visitors alike!