// Kyle, Tori, Darlene, Erica and I attended the 2009 Energy Summit at Stanford today. It was a productive but long day. We made a lot of great contacts and got to use our model for the first time! Everyone was very interested in it. The billboards were put on today, there is a giant light switch on the side of the house! We are using billboards as a weatherproofing cover to replace Tyvec, because we don’t want the word Tyvec visible through the siding of the house. The roof flashing was started. Plumbing supply is going in. Electrical was started.

// A lot of visitors today, but I’m sure we are only warming up to more and more activity on site. Building inspectors paid us our first visit today. They will be back tomorrow to approve our site. Today the shear wall nailing was finished and the framing of interior walls is complete. I was incorrect with saying there were finished on Friday, there was very minor touches that needed to be done. The roofers came today as well and began adding crickets. Crickets build up the roof to guide the water to the drain. They also made cutouts for the drains. Vertex Mechanical, our plumbing donors, also came today. They did a rough layout of the plumbing.

// Hot Hot Hot! Construction was very eventful despite the heat. Milgard, the company that donated the windows of our house delivered them today! All of the interior walls are framed and finished. The end cap doors were all framed and all the pocket doors were framed. This was an excellent first week of construction. Allison and I attended PCBC today and made some excellent connections with people wanting to support our project! (Thank you Chris Akins for our passes!).

// Wow! Busy day! For being so far behind we are really picking it up, at least in my opinion. Today on the construction site we finished framing the walls, framed all the roof joists, started the roof sheathing and (phew, take a breath!) started framing the interior walls. Yesterday we had an open air frame and now it is really coming together to look like a home! All the people working on the construction site have been working 11 hour days the past three days, it really shows! But we do still have a lot to do to catch up on our projected schedule. Ed Ambauen, Spencer’s dad left today. He was a big help in getting things on track! Thanks Ed!! As far as the office folks go, we have been working long hours on vendor lists and lead times. The PCBC (Pacific Coast Building Conference) event is today, tomorrow and Friday. Preet and I stopped by today to check out the amazing event, which is HUGE. We will be attending the event Thursday and Friday to make some good connections with companies and to create awareness of Team California.