Officially on the road

Lee and I (tom rose) are heading out the door for the airport and then off to uganda. This is hopefully the first of many international posts.

Entry 31: Blog Break for Uganda

I will be leaving for Uganda on Monday and won’t be writing any new entries until the school year starts. Duke Smart Home and Engineers Without Borders are teaming up to build a resource center that will educate the locals on sustainable living and farming technologies. The center is by a group […]

Entry 30: Genie Ride to the Roof

Hello summer friends,
This will be my last entry this summer because tomorrow is my last day. It’s been a great summer sharing construction news and planning for my trip to Uganda. Today, I rode the cherry picker (or boom lift) called the Genie S-60 up to the white metal roof to see the green roof […]

Entry 29: Kickin’ on the AC

Hello summer friends,
On Tuesday, I made a visit to the site to give a tour to a reporter. The first thing to show you from the outside is the Cembonit is mostly complete. See a photo of the front face below.

The deck installation is next on the agenda for the outside. […]

Entry 28: Man on Stilts!

Hey everyone,
Yesterday, I visited the site to take some more photos for you and inside I found a couple of workers smoothing out the drywall with putty. There isn’t much to show you from this visit just that the back and 2 side walls are mostly finished with Cembonit and the front side began yesterday […]