Experienced - 30 Years - Specializing in Additions and Alterations - Reasonable Fees
Helping growing families and small businesses with well crafted distinctive, but not overdesigned, maintenance free, energy efficient, additions, alterations and new buildings. Additions look as if they could have been part of the original building.
We help with a lot of small jobs too - structural calcs for builders, inspectors, Lally Column removals, basements, decks, porches, kitchens, bumpouts, attics, dormers ....Email us now to set up a free consultation and we will provide a written proposal for the services you need. We don't just hand you the plans - we support you through Bidding, Permitting, and Construction.
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Please feel free to call and talk with Geoff Gogan 973-896-8334 or
Jim Naughton 800-234-9231.
We've served 1000's of "Middle Class" budget conscious families - Custom buildings, additions, and renovations - that are just the right size - Healthy for you as well as Nature, Energy Efficient, Low Maintenance, Affordable yet well crafted with "Fit and Finish", inspiring and marketable.
Why Us? It takes years to learn how to decide when the proportion and detailing is just right. In addition to making a building look good lets remember that most of a building is not visible. The primary function of a building is to solve real practical physical problems - shelter, structure, warmth, fresh air, safety, comfort, food storage, preparation and family dining, energy supply, tranquility, rest, hygiene, communications, built in storage, all with modest simple clear design and other well detailed features. It must balance many different factors - fulfilling the functional needs but also adding something special that distinguishes our humanity- beauty - yet balancing the aesthetic with the practical. For some projects, this can include, among others, the way it processes structural forces, BTUs, moisture, fresh air, fresh water, waste, noise, the earth's heat, and sometimes even filtering / storing water and growing / storing food, gathering / storing power, etc. In many ways the biological and cognitive systems in a building become extensions of our own body.
When applicable to the client, we can incorporate the latest (and some of the oldest) technology in every project, including Geo-thermal Heat HVAC, Radiant Heat, Spray Foam or other special High R-Value Insulation, efficient windows and doors, tightly sealed envelopes, fresh conditioned filtered air, passive, active and photo-voltaic solar, and sometimes fire-proof light guage metal framing.
Aside from "Good Design" we offer early construction cost estimates you to approve along with the design sketches, help you with Competitive Bidding, Contractor Selection, negotiation of a fair AIA Contract and Payment Schedule, obtaining all permits and then we don't disappear during construction. We are there to support you.
We will help with any size project from a simple basement, kitchen or deck to a large addition or new home. The office has purposely been maintained in a modest low overhead manner in a ground floor retail setting with parking right out front providing easy friendly access. Walk-ins welcome.
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