Rockland Sees the Future with the City’s First Live Plant Roof
Rockland has joined an ever-growing list of Maine communities with commercial buildings that have employed a live plant roof. The restoration of a 110-year old historic building on Main Street has completed the first commercial “green” roof in Rockland and the Mid-Coast area. The building owner, Rick Rockwell, purchased 449 Main St from Barry Faber with the full intention of employing the latest in sustainable design, while preserving the northern-most building in Rockland’s Historic Main Street District...
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Hope Elephants will be a unique rehabilitation and educational facility for retired elephants in Hope, Maine.
Retired and injured elephants will receive state-of-the-art physical therapy in a purpose-built habitat dedicated to their needs. School children and others of all ages will experience elephants in a way unavailable anywhere else in the country. The goal of Hope Elephants’ educational program is to inspire visitors to act upon their experience and find their own path to participate in wildlife conservation.View the Website »
Shipyard's biggest building going up without delay
In the rapid development of Front Street Shipyard from derelict sardine cannery to large-scale boat servicing facility, the past month has been no exception as construction gets under way on two new buildings, including the largest proposed ... read full story »
The Big Green
This amazing building, our sixth for premier boat builder and environmental leader Lyman Morse, was the only marine project inducted into the VP Hall of Fame in 2008.
The national award honors steel structures that represent the state of the art in quality and innovation. read full story »
Rockport Victorian
"...In the end, it took seven years to restore
the home. Some of the improvements were
structural. Among other things, Maine
Coast Construction put a new foundation
under the barn, and they raised and leveled
the house, which had settled so much that
the second-story doors could not be closed.
They also put in new electrical and hot-water
heating systems, gutted and remodeled the
bathrooms, added a new porch and turret,
and repaired the home’s slate roof and the
cupola atop the barn." download full story (PDF) »
(from Maine Home + Design)
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