2025 Updates
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April 22, 2025 - 1102 W. 33rd
Framing is complete!
April 22, 2025 - 822 W. 32nd
The interior wall metal studs are just about complete.
April 13, 2025 - 822 W. 32nd Avenue
Moving on to laying out the interior walls which will be constructed with metal studs.
April 12, 2025 - 822 W. 43nd Avenue
All of the walls and ceiling/roof panels are installed in 6 work days!
April 11, 2025 - 822 W. 32nd Avenue
Getting the last roof panel in place at 822 W. 32nd Avenue!
April 9, 2025 - 1102 and 1104 W. 33rd Avenue
Slabs poured for 1102 and 1104 W. 33rd Avenue. You can see the ends of the post tension cables sticking out of the sides. The slabs will cure to a 90% strength level in 7 days, so we will start the framing work mid-week.
April 10, 2025 - 822 W. 32nd Avenue
Half of the roof panels are installed after one day!
April 9, 2925 - 822 W. 32nd Avenue
After 5 work days all exterior wall panels are installed. The rigid top beam was installed this morning and it provides a good deal of the structural strength. Roof panels starting tomorrow!
April 4, 2025 - 822 W. 32nd Avenue
After two days at 822 W. 32nd Avenue, this house is starting to look like a house! The wall panels will be finished tomorrow and the prep for the roof panels will follow shortly!
March 28, 2025 - 822 W. 32nd Avenue
Our new SIPs house materials unloaded, ready to be assembled! Hope it came with directions!
March 28, 2025 - 822 W. 32nd SIP delivery
Unloading the materials for the new SIPs house at 822 W. 32nd Avenue!
March 28, 2025 - 1102 and 1104 West 33rd Avenue
1102 and 1104 West 33rd Avenue. Our friendly plumbing and foundation teams are in the process of completing the rough-in plumbing for these two foundations!
March 17, 2025
All three slabs poured and final finishing being done. The post-tension slab lines will be tightened hydraulically in a couple of days when the slabs are hardened.
Updates for 814, 818 and 822 W. 32nd Avenue – SIPs Houses
“Pouring concrete for all three slabs! Four concrete trucks and the pump truck were busy at the site this morning!”
Our contractor, Cecil Hudson of HSG Solutions Group, reviews the installed cables at 814 W. 32nd Avenue with some of the Tech-con Systems team members who are doing the cabling work. The post-tension slabs will provide us with a stronger slab that will have less shrinkage and stress cracking.
The slab footprint for 818 W. 32nd Avenue house is a little larger to accommodate the three bedroom footprint.
This close up picture of the 822 W. 32nd Avenue shows the thick cables which are used to strengthen the post-tension slabs.
The foundation at 822 W. 32nd Avenue just needs City approval of the foundation inspection, then concrete!
March 17, 2025: 1102 and 1104 W. 33rd Avenue at N. Pierce Street are nearly ready to start forming up the slab foundations! Corey is working his backhoe and dozer at 1104 W. 33rd Avenue in the first picture. In the 2nd picture, the equipment stands at the ready on 1102 W. 33rd Avenue on the corner. These two houses will each be two bedroom one bathroom, conventional wood frame houses. They will be completed by the end of July!
First SIPs houses in west St. Tammany Parish now under way at 814, 818 and 822 W. 32nd Avenue.
The Structural Insulated Panels construction methodology emerged from the industrial real estate sector where SIPs buildings were used for cold storage buildings. The SIPs houses will have 6” thick wall panels, 8” thick ceiling panels and they are built with metal studs for interior walls, so there is no wood used. They will offer homeowners much lower electric bills and insurance costs since they have a very high wind rating and they are low-risk for fire with no wood used. The panels have a metal sheathing on each side with a baked on enamel finish, so there is no interior or exterior painting of the perimeter walls and ceiling.
The skeletal frame can be erected on a cured slab very quickly, so they can be fully built much faster than conventional wood framed houses. We will build the two bedroom house at 822 W. 32nd Avenue first to help us learn the new construction process, then we will build a three bedroom house next to it, along with a four bedroom house on the third site.
You can see from the photos that the three sites have been cleared, the red clay bases have been installed and the slab foundations are being formed. The slab foundations for all three will be poured together to achieve some cost efficiencies. Check back with our site often for updates.
