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Great Press Coverage During Friends School Build
When it came time to build a new school for the Friends School of Portland, Warren Construction Group jumped at the challenge. We received some great press during the planning and construction phases of this wonderful project, as shown below. “The Quaker school is Maine’s first school certified as a …
The Experienced Innovator
Maine Home + Design featured a profile about Peter Warren and Warren Construction Group in its Architecture December, 2015 issue. This wonderful article on Peter captures some of the history of the company and the essence of what makes Warren Construction Group unique. Please read the article below and it …
Portland Food Co-Op and Sustainability
In November of 2014 the Portland Food Co-Op opened its doors in a new location on Congress Street, Portland. Heavily involved from the start, Warren Construction Group worked with a passionate group of people who had a vision of moving the co-op into a larger and more publically accessible space. …
Thermal Break to the Earth
In order to maximize the heat retention within a building and thus minimize any transfer of cold temperature into a building we have gone to great lengths to ‘break’ any contact between the two. At Friends School of Portland we installed 12″ (±R54) of rigid insulation in two 6″ thick …
Using Infra-red
Great craftsmen rely on their old hand tools for many years and repair them over and over because they feel right and know the ‘touch’. In many cases an old tool does the best job, but technology has changed this for some tasks. One of the most recent tools added …
History Exposed
The Longfellow Elementary School in Brunswick was repurposed by Bowdoin College to create the Edwards Center for Arts and Dance. When the timber rafters were uncovered in the building demolition process, Peter suggested washing, cleaning and preserving the exposed historic feature. This decision contributed to a project that reveals rather …
Harvested Gun-Barrel Pine
When we first walked onto the site of the future Friends School in Cumberland, we saw enormous, gun-barrel-straight pine trees and immediately wanted to use the logs in the construction of the school. The trees were harvested in 25-foot logs, which is the maximum length Maschino Lumber’s sawmill can handle. …
