Energy Efficient House In SouthEastern Michigan With No Columns In Basement -- ANAND Enterprises Project EneE1KasM1

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Following up on my post Look Ma There Are No Columns In The Basement! I present here some pictures takem from within the basement showing column free wide open areas. Wow now the utilities and HVAC ducts can pass through the open web joists in one direction and through mostly open web joist girders running across in the other direction.

In the next post I will present some pictures of the super structure ICF walls.

Look Ma ... There Are No Columns In The Basement!

construction noise ... so please turn down speaker volume

This energy efficient house in southeastern Michigan has ICF (Insulating Concrete Form) walls and open web steel joists for the floor system ... and a totally open column free basement and there will be no drops in the ceiling for HVAC ducts running under the beams because we used open web joist girders instead of conventional solid web beams ... WOW!

The owners of this dream home have the freedom to arrange the basement in anyway they like, recreation room with pool table, or for that matter pool tables, a home theater, a music room ... oh ya wherever their interests lie. For one home owner we had designed an in-door basketball court in their basement ... now that is one large and of course tall basement -- well if you are wondering how can we do that? Well, you see we have a great team of achitects, builders, engineers, and professional trades people working in harmony as a team that do not take no for an answer ... ask them to design and build some thing, and guess what they will.

Energy efficient house, customized design, healthy, comfortable, beautiful long lasting does not have to cost much more than conventional construction because we work at the fundamental level and we shave off all the waste in material and labor so we can give our client their energy efficient, custom designed house that is healthy, comfortable, strong, long lasting, and ... at a very reasonable cost.

Well enough of my talking about the features of our energy efficient buildings, let me have the following pictures do the talking

construction noise ... so please turn down speaker volume

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Jennifer And Jeff Owens Palatial House Under Construction In SouthEastern Michigan

Jennifer and Jeff are building their house to be energy efficient, sustainable, safe, comfortable and long lasting. One of the key features as far as the structure of the house is concerned ... supported floors are going to be concrete over metal deck supported on Open Web Steel Joists -- the type of floor system used in commercial buildings. The concrete floors will incorporate radiant heat tubing in the deck.

We hear most of our clients, these days say ... hey this is my dream house we are building and we plan to live here the rest of our life. So the client want their house to be energy efficient, comfortable, strong, safe, and comfortable. We are helping many of our clients help implement the use of Open Web Steel Joists in the supported floors whether the floor is plywood deck or concrete. We have devised a supported floor structural system that provides for a floor that is strong as well as cost-effective.

Here I present a few pictures -- you will see my son Martin checking the structure out.

Brick Fireplace in Master Mason Jeff Owens Huge Garage

It has been a while since I last poste on this blog. So, now as the inspiration has hit, I am going to go back to some memorable events, and report on those.

My son Martin and I had the opportunity to see Master Mason Jeff Owen's Brick Fireplace when Martin and I went on a Field trip to see Jeff Owen's implementation of supported floors using Open Web Steel Joist in his new house now under construction ... we are helping more and more of our clients implement this type of supported floor system which is more robust and is also extremely cost-effective -- but we will talk more about that in a separate post on Jeff Owen's palatial house.

The Brick Fireplace is beautiful ... it is a work of art. It heats up the huge Garage which Jennifer and Jeff Owen use quite often to entertain the neighborhood with fres owen baked pizza and goodies. Jeff has a plan to incorporate a pizza oven in the beautiful Brick Fireplace as well.

Let me show you a couple of pictures that I took from inside Jennifer & Jeff Owen's Garage

Great Job by Master Mason Jeff Owens in building the Brick Fireplace ... and Great Job by Jennifer and Jeff in entertaining the kids in a safe warm, and cozy place ... Pizza AnyOne?

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