Exciting changes are underway at Pine Hill Trail center. Maine Passive House and the Mica Project Fund partnered to construct a home base for Maine West: Project Play. Read on to learn more about the mission of Project Play, all the community partners who worked on this build, and the construction methods we used to make this an enduring, cost effective, environmentally friendly structure!

I hope you will join me in welcoming Katrina as our new CEO and Anna as COO. I am excited to make this transition, and I am especially excited to see where Katrina and Anna will take the company in the years to come.

There is a great need for people to enter the construction industry and learn the trades to carry on into the future. At this moment in history it is an employee’s market and I strongly recommend that you learn more about the companies you are interested in to make your selection based on common values and potential opportunities. The work that you do as a carpenter is physically rewarding and the buildings you construct will stand for decades to come, a testament to your impact on the built environment.

As Passive House experts, it’s safe to say we spend a lot of time thinking about the operational energy use of our structures. What you might not know, is that we spend just as much time thinking about the materials that go into our buildings. Aesthetics, feel, utility, durability, and cost are always critical components of any decision in the construction world. We add a few more qualifiers, and make sure they don’t compromise the rest.